Anthony Venn-Brown, Founder and CEO of Ambassadors & Bridge Builders International (ABBI), has been awarded the Order of Australia Medal as part of this year’s Queen’s Birthday Honours. Venn-Brown was given the honour for his service to Australia’s LGBTIQ+ community, for his advocacy within Christian and Pentecostal communities for LGBTIQ+ people. After coming out as […]
Bronwyn Bishop, the former Speaker of the House and Liberal government minister, has suggested that the Labor party might begin funding drag queens to read stories to children. Bishop was appearing as a panelist on the Sky News program Paul Murray Live when the discussion turned to the Outdoor Advertising Association’s decision to reject an advertisement […]
It’s one year today since the results of the Marriage Postal Survey were announced and Australia’s LGBTIQ+ population found out that enough of their fellow citizens had ticked the YES box for marriage equality. During the campaign for marriage equality a lot of claims about the outcomes of a YES vote were suggested by the […]
Many members of the LGBTI community have been snapping selfies as they put their forms for the government’s marriage survey in the post box, but for one OUTinPerth reader the trip to the post office exposed them to claims that allowing same-sex marriage would lead to bestiality and incest. A vehicle parked in the Perth […]
Opposition leader Bill Shorten has delivered a passionate speech in parliament today, holding the Prime Minister responsible for abuse LGBTI people will experience during a postal plebiscite campaign. Since the original plebiscite plan was defeated a second time in the senate this week the government have forged ahead with their postal vote scheme on marriage […]
In question time this afternoon Independent MP Andrew Wilkie asked the Prime Minister if he would rule out a plebiscite on the issue of marriage equality. The member for Denison asked; “Prime Minister, the ban on same sex marriage is legislated discrimination and plain wrong. In response to the recent Irish referendum you stated that […]
