‘That’s What Friends Are For’ wins Grammy award for Song of the Year On this day in 1986 the song That’s What Friends Are For won the Song of the Year category at the Grammy Awards. The recording by Dionne Warwick, Stevie Wonder, Gladys Knight and Elton John also picked up the Grammy Award for Best Pop […]
Members of the WA music community will come together online for a livestreaming event to raise funds for the Lord Mayor’s Bushfire Appeal this Saturday, 13th February. Singer/songwriter Delilah Rose and music journalist, Bob Gordon, will host Fire Aid 2021 – The Perth Hills Bushfire Online Fundraiser, live-streaming on YouTube from 4.30pm. There’ll be performances […]
Perth’s long running and much loved charity event Club West is set to return in 2021 after a seven and half a year hiatus. The long running event was a staple of Perth’s LGBTI nightlife for 24 years before the final curtain came down in 2013. At the time Club West matriarch and part-time go-go […]
A new report launched by Social Ventures Australia (SVA) and the Centre for Social Impact (CSI) forecasts that more than 200,000 jobs in the charity sector could be lost as a result of the COVID-19 crisis if financial supports, such as JobKeeper and lease and loan deferrals, come to an end in October. The report, Will […]
Richard Matias has always has a keen interest in photography but two years ago he decided move on from taking holiday snaps and delve into artistic photography. “I’ve always loved photographic art.” Matias told OUTinPerth “I’ve always had a huge interest in art, in High School I did a lot of visual arts, drawing and […]
The Australian Sex Party has released their 2016 election campaign advertisement with a warning that it “smite offend some people.” The satirical video shows a priest singing a list of things that the Catholic Church does to make the “world less good.” Performed to the tune of ‘The Candyman’, ‘The Vatican Can’ highlights the negative […]
The Australian Sex Party are leading a campaign to reform Australia’s Charities Act, arguing that religious organisations should have to demonstrate how they benefit the public. Federal Senate candidate for the Sex Party, Dr Meredith Doig is petitioning the House of Representatives and Social Services Minister Christian Porter to strip the Australian Christian Lobby of its […]
Wondersday, a free monthly LGBTIQ social networking and charity event, has kicked off to a flying start here on the west coast. The monthly event is held at a new venue each month, with the venue donating a portion of the profits to a pre-selected charity. Previously, Wondersday have supported Australian Marriage Equality, Food Rescue […]
Daniel Ashley Pierce secretly filmed a conversation during which his family told him he could no longer live with them due to his homosexuality and physically assaulted him. The video went viral and after Pierce’s boyfriend set up a GoFundMe account to raise living expenses, Pierce received thousands of donations. In a week, Pierce’s campaign […]
Experiencing a sexual assault must be one of the worst things that can happen to anyone. Sadly the experience does not end with the assault itself. Often people experiencing sexual assault must go through the additional pressures of reporting the crime, going through the legal process and dealing with the associated psychological trauma. This week a […]
