Hardly a month goes by without a study simply scandalising some people with the salacious suggestion that self-identifying straights might not be quite as Heterosexual as they like to make out. Most of us are unsurprised, the Kinsey scale is so old there’s Egyptian hieroglyphics mentioning it. Even while Biphobia and Bierasure still persist, the […]
Tasmania’s Shadow Health Minister has voiced her support for banning gay conversion therapy practices. Sarah Lovell MLC added her name to a petition calling for the practice to be banned, and called on Tasmania’s Liberal government lead by Will Hodgman to show it’s support too. “In a supposedly enlightened and tolerant Australia, it’s difficult to […]
Actor and singer Janelle Monae has revealed she identifies as queer in a new interview with Rolling Stone. The 32-year-old singer said that she has previously been in relationships with men and women. “Being a queer black woman in America… I consider myself to be a free-ass motherfucker,” Monae said. Monae adds that she had […]
Chinese social media site Sina Wiebo has scaled back its plan to censor gay images and cartoons following a backlash from millions of users. On Friday the twitter-like Chinese social media site announced it would be deleting content and accounts that featured gay content. The site said that it would be deleting posts which contained […]
One half of the incomparable Broad City duo has revealed she is interested in dating men and women in a recent interview. Comedian and artist Abbi Jacobson told Vanity Fair that a sense of humour and passion for what they do are traits she looks for in a partner. “I kind of go both ways; I date […]
Arrested Development star Alia Shawkat signs up for a sexual social experiment in an upcoming comedy from Miguel Arteta. Shawkat stars as Naima, who meets Laia in a nightclub, and the pair decide to get to know each other by having sex on the hour, every hour, for an entire day. The bisexual actor also wrote […]
Rachel’s McAdams and Weisz fight their families, faith and selves in this stirring new trailer for Disobedience from director Sebastián Lelio. Based on the debut novel by Naomi Alderman Disobedience follows the story of Ronit (Weisz), who was expelled from her Orthodox Jewish community for her attraction to Esti (McAdams). Now after the death of her father, Ronit […]
Gay people are more likely to have trouble getting to sleep, wake up more during the night, and are more likely to use medication to help them sleep in comparison to the heterosexual or bisexual peers. That’s the finding of the latest research out of the USA, where up to 40% of the countries citizens […]
The Western Australian government has announced it will be providing $120,000 for the development of a LGBTI health strategy. Co-ordinated through the Department of Health, the strategy will provide a framework to raise awareness of the specific health and mental health challenges of LGBTI people. The funding will be used to engage relevant stakeholders and […]
A friendly discussion at work with some colleagues I like a lot left me pissed off. An offhand comment about our offshore call centre: “We’ve got everything there. We’ve got some gays, we’ve got some lesbians, we’ve got some people who are just confused…” Let me tell you one thing: I am not fucking ‘confused’. […]
