Last night on Q&A, the panel discusses the state of LGBTIQ rights in Australia today and took a look back at how far they have come since the release of ‘Priscilla, Queen of the Desert’ changed the social landscape forever. Tom Ballard deftly led the debate, which touched on LGBTIQ issues in education, religion, love […]
Tom Ballard, out presenter and comedian, is set to host tonight’s special LGBTIQ episode of Q&A on ABC. Tom will be facilitating discourse on LGBTIQ issues and concerns, including the current marriage equality debate. The full panel consists of Dennis Altman, Paul Capsis, Julie McCrossin, Rev Fred Nile, Julia Doulman & Katherine Hudson. The ABC’s […]
National President of the Christian Democratic Party, Reverend Fred Nile, will feature as a panellist on an upcoming episode of ‘Q&A’ with a focus on queer issues. “The Reverend was extended a written invitation by the senior producer of ‘Q&A’ to join the panel for a ‘special edition’, and without any hesitation the Reverend accepted”, […]
After Homosexual Edited by Carolyn D’Cruz and Mark Pendleton UWA Publishing In recent years queer organisations in many parts of the world have stagnated. Focusing on the last remnants of legal equality such as marriage, they seem to have stopped questioning everything else. Forty years after the publication of Dennis Altman’s pivotal work Homosexual: Oppression […]
When Dennis Altman wrote the book ‘Homosexual Oppression and Liberation’ forty-two years ago, it was hailed as a groundbreaking insight into the politics and struggles of homosexuality during an era where being queer was rarely discussed. Hailed by ‘Time’ magazine as “among the whole tumble of homosexuals who have ‘come out of the closet’, perhaps […]
