October 8th is International Lesbian Day, a day to celebrate lesbian culture, promote lesbian visibility and show solidary with everyone who identifies with the L in LGBTQIA+. Yesterday, the team at RTRFM’s All Things Queer program celebrated early, with hosts Bella Broadway and our co-editor Leigh Andrew Hill. As Bella said on the program, we’re not exactly […]
The Proud Awards 2020 took over Connections Nightclub on Saturday evening, with a celebration of WA’s LGBTIQ+ creatives and communities. Hosted by Dean Misdale and Cougar Morrison, the evening kicked off with a hearty and hilarious reading session where nobody was safe. Not even us! The fun continued with the evening’s awards, which expanded this […]
There are growing calls for the bodies of poets Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud to be interred at the Panthéon in Paris. The Panthéon contains the remains of many of France’s greatest statesmen and scholars including Victor Hugo, Emile Zola, Louie Braille and Marie Curie. Many prominent French politicians have argued that the bodies of the […]
September 23rd is Bi Visibility Day, also known as Celebrate Bisexuality Day, which runs in tandem with Bi Week celebrations around the world. Today marks 21 years since the occasion was first marked in 1999, and Bi+ Community Perth, the largest community organisation for bi, pan and multi-gender-attracted people in WA, joined Harriet Kenny on […]
Tune in to radio program All Things Queer this week for the latest LGBTIQ+ news and information. Join host Harriet Kenny and a bunch of exciting guests as they cover a wide range of events occurring and discuss the latest news and issues. On this week’s program Duc Dau and Jay Chesters from Bi+ Community Perth […]
Today is Celebrate Bisexuality Day, a day that had its origins 30 years ago in 1990 when people met in San Francisco to discuss how people who are bisexual are often left out of discussions and celebrations about sexuality. More than 450 people attended from 20 U.S. states and 5 other countries, and the mayor […]
The Proud Awards are just around the corner, and the fifth entry into the local LGBTIQ+ Hall of Fame has been announced. This year, The Proud Awards are honouring Aunty Vanessa Smith for her incredible legacy of activism supporting the LGBTIQ+ and Indigenous communities here in WA, joining past winners June Lowe of GRAI, STYLEAID founder […]
Pride WA’s next social gathering will be on Wednesday 16 September at the Charles Hotel North Perth. Come and meet new and old friends. The event kicks off at 6:00pm and runs through to 8:00pm. The Charles Hotel is located at 509 Charles Street in North Perth. Get tickets via Eventbrite. Love OUTinPerth Campaign Help […]
Major news for Australia and New Zealand’s bisexual+ communities, as organisations and individuals from both nations come together for the first Bi+ focused conference. Stand Bi Us will host over 30 free events, both online and in person, as part of a week-long celebration of Bi+ Visibility Day, marked on September 23rd. “Bisexuals (Bi+ is […]
For their next online event Out for Australia will be teaming up with A.C.T. Aces, a community group from the Australian Capital Territory that brings together people who identify as asexual. The online discussion is titled: Out for Asexuality: Being Asexual in a Sex-obsessed World! This webinar will feature a diverse range of ace panellists […]
