The Australian Christian Lobby is calling for the Andrews government to provide a clear definition of what it considers to be gay conversion therapy. This week the Victorian government became the first jurisdiction is Australia to propose outlawing the practice of attempting to suppress or change a person’s sexuality or gender identity. The Australian Christian […]
Tags: Dan Flynn, Daniel ANdrews, gay conversion therapy, Lyle Shelton, Martyn Iles, Neil Mitchell, Victoria
6 Feb 2019 /
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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 […]
Tags: ACL, Australian Christian Lobby, Bisexual, conversion therapy, gay, gay conversion therapy, greg hunt, Intersex, Lesbian, LGBT, LGBTI, LGBTIQ, LGBTIQA, Lyle Shelton, queer, Roger Cook, Sarah Lovell, Tasmanaia, trans*, transgender
25 May 2018 |
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Health Minister Greg Hunt has raised concerns about “freedom of speech” while being questioned about his views on gay conversion therapy this week. Speaking with Patricia Karvelas on Radio National, the conversation quickly turned from discussing The Greens’ newly announced policy to legalise cannabis use for all adults to freedom of speech and the Victorian […]
Tags: cannabis, freedom of speech, gay conversion, gay conversion therapy, Greens, greg hunt, health minister, richard di natale
18 Apr 2018 |
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Health Minister Roger Cook has told Triple J’s Hack program that he will review Western Australia’s laws to see if there is a need for legislation to protect people from so-called ‘gay conversion therapy’. Gay conversion therapy, or reparative therapy, is courses or counselling methodologies that claim they can alter a person’s sexuality, usually involving a desire […]
Tags: ACL, ACT, Andrew Barr, asexual, Australian Capital, Australian Christian Lobby, Australian Medical Association, Bisexual, discrimination, doctors, Dr Margaret Mayman, gay, gay conversion therapy, Intersex, Lesbian, LGBT, LGBTI, LGBTIQ, LGBTIQA, Lyle Shelton, medical, Pansy Lai, queer, Roger Cook, Rozangela Justino, trans*, transgender, WA, Waldemar de Carvalho, Western Australia
24 Sep 2017 |
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Actors Troye Sivan and Xavier Dolan have joined the cast of Boy Erased. The gay conversion drama based on Garrard Conley’s autobiography is being adapted into a film by Australian actor / director Joel Edgerton. Conley documented his experience of attending Love in Action, an group that attempts to change LGBT people into heterosexuals. The son of […]
Tags: Boy Erased, Cherry Jones, Film, Flea, Garrard Conley, gay conversion therapy, Joel Edgerton, Movie, Nicole Kidman, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Troye Sivan, Xavier Dolan
31 Aug 2017 |
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