The Liberal party has issued an order to its senior executive members telling them to stop making pubic comments. While the edict applies to all members of their executive, it’s widely understood it’s been brought in as an attempt to reign in conservative commentator, and party Vice President, Teena McQueen. As the federal government get’s […]
On Thursday morning Australia’s awoke to discover that tech-giant Facebook had banned all Australian news sources from its platform. Now the social media company says it’s sorry for it’s over-zealous approach. The dramatic move was a salvo in the companies war with the Morrison government over proposals that online social media and search engine behemoths […]
James Corden has shown his love for transgender people who serve in the US military. The talk show host launched into song on his TV program The Late Late Show delivering a rendition of the song L-O-V-E. The Nat King Cole classic was given a make-over a transformed into L-G-B-T as Corden mocked President Donald Trump’s […]
US President Donald Trump has announced that transgender people will no longer be allowed to serve in America’s military. The President made the announcement via a series of early morning Twitter posts, but did not clarify when the ban would be implemented and how it would affect thousands of transgender people currently serving in the […]
French authorities will end blanket bans on donating blood for gay and bisexual men. The bans, which are a relic of the AIDS crisis of the 1980s, prevented any male who has sex with other men from ever donating blood in the country. The Netherlands recently took similar action, ending their discriminatory policy just […]
The Australian Greens are calling for a review of the long-standing deferral period which disallows gay men and men who have sex with men to give blood for 12 months after engaging in sexual activity. The party’s LGBTI spokesperson Senator Robert Simms says he has written to Human Rights Commissioner Tim Wilson calling for the […]
The US state of Kansas yesterday had its marriage ban struck down. District Judge Daniel Crabtree ruled that the state’s ban on same marriage violated the 14th Amendment of the US constitution. ” No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor […]
