On April 29 the 2010 Health in Difference conference begins in Sydney. The conference aims to bring together key health organisations and individuals to address the significant health issues affecting people of marginalised sexualities and genders. 2010 marks the seventh Health in Difference, which is organised by the National GLBT Health alliance. ‘Doing Diversity’ is […]
Like building any family, making the decision to go ahead and bring some fur kids into your life is a big decision. Let’s face it, for a few hundred dollars you can get your hands on more cute than you can handle. It’s a small price to pay for a lifetime of love, companionship and […]
Last month France became the first country to officially remove transsexuality from classification as a long term psychiatric mental illness, recognising it instead as medical disorder. French Health Minister, Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin announced the move to de-list gender dysphoria as a mental illness in the lead up to the International Day of Action Against Homophobia and […]
WA filmmakers Nathan Keene and Will Faulkner walked off with the top prize in this year’s Mardi Gras Film Festival’s short film competition, My Queer Career. Keene and Faulkners’ film, Disarm, beat 7 other finalists to walk away with the $3000 prize money, and automatic entry into the prestigious international Iris Prize Festival based in […]
February was a brilliant month in the garden. At least I think it was. Unless of course you were a plant in my garden. Then, well, you would have appreciated the time I spent learning how to be a better gardener this month… as you withered away from an overly enthusiastic combination of sun and […]
I’m not one who is really big on the whole dividing the world into a butch/femme dichotomy. I prefer to think of it as people who have a valuable contribution to make in the construction of reticulation systems, and those of us who have an excellent appreciation of those who have a valuable contribution to […]
Fabulous Food From Every Small Garden Mary Horsfall, 2009 CSIRO PUBLISHING Clearly, if unimaginatively laid out the Fabulous Food From Every Small Garden provides a wealth of information on different techniques and products that can assist the size-challenged-but-keenness-endowed vegie gardener. Some of the techniques are tried and tested, while others, such as aquaponics, are relatively […]
I sat at my desk thinking ‘Oh my god… how do you run a newspaper?’. Well I’m not exactly sure I know the answer to that one yet, but OUTinPerth is somehow still here, three years later. Working with, and for, the GLBTIQ community as Editor of OUTinPerth has been a great experience and learning […]
After almost a decade in operation, Australia’s national depression initiative, Beyond Blue, has taken its first major steps towards addressing the alarmingly high levels of depression and anxiety reported in the GLBTI community. Meeting in Melbourne on December 17, more than seventy invited representatives were in attendance for the GLBTI Mental Health Round Table convened […]
Somehow, the year has whipped around and here, smacking us in the face again like a drunken straggler from a hen’s night beating her way to the dance floor podium, is the festival of all things acronymious, Pride. And while to many Pride is a graceful (though a somewhat sequin besmattered) swan gliding smoothly through […]
