The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights have shown selective support for a private members bill for marriage equality, though some members have voiced their dissent to the legislation. The committee, whose responsibility is to analyse human rights concerns in writs of legislation, released its report on Tuesday. While the committee did not endorse the […]
Facebook has attracted controversy recently by enforcing a policy that its users must use their legal name on the social network. This excluded members of the LGBT community who prefer not to go by their legal title, including drag performers, transgender people and those who simply prefer to go by something other than what is […]
A video made by a bi-national couple has highlighted the devastations caused by the Defence of Marriage Act (DoMA) since it was introduced in 1996. Signed in by former President Bill Clinton, the act has denied millions of gay Americans over 1100 rights. Aptly named ‘Missing Husband’, the video shows the rollercoaster of emotions as […]
I grew up in a Catholic household, Catholic parents and Catholic high school. When the time comes to tell your family, you go back to that twelve years of Catholic education and upbringing and think, dear God, I’m going to be chained to a cross and burnt outside the front of my house. The first […]
I came out when I was fifteen, I always knew. I was drunk, I was at a friend’s house, my partner at the time, it was like a sleep over. Dad rang me and I just told him straight out. I woke up in the morning and there was like 26 missed calls and I […]
