Tim Conigrave’s memoir ‘Holding the Man’ captured the impact of HIV on Australia in the 1980s On this day in 1994 actor and writer Timothy Conigrave passed away from AIDS related illnesses just four months before his award-winning memoir, Holding the Man was published. The memoir became widely acclaimed as queer literature since its publication in […]
In the lead up to the Wimbledon tennis finals last week Margaret Court’s name began to trend on Twitter. People shared their outrage that the sporting star, turned evangelical preacher, was travelling to the United Kingdom to watch the tennis. Questions were asked, did the politically connected pastor pull some strings to get permission to […]
Margaret Court has sat down for an interview with one of the world’s most watched sports program to defend her beliefs about gay people and marriage, claiming that she’s been the victim of unfair bulling from the LGBTIQ+ community. Veteran sportscaster Mary Carillo recently spent several days in Perth with the former Tennis champion turned religious […]
Tennis legend Martina Navratilova has responded to Margaret Court’s latest round of attacks on the LGBTIQA+ community with her own open letter. Published in The Sydney Morning Herald, the letter repeats calls for Margaret Court Arena in Melbourne to be renewed in light of Court’s most recent spate of comments about marriage equality, LGBTIQA+ people, […]
Channel Nine’s TV show ‘20 to 1‘ has criticised for making jokes about transgender people. The weekly program that countdowns twenty examples under a different theme was focusing on outrageous sports stars. Among the stars on their list was basketball player Dennis Rodman, cricketer Shane Warne, Olympic hurdler Michelle Jenneke and and transgender tennis player Renee […]
The Womens Tennis Association and Martina Navratilova have lashed back at comments from Ukranian Top 50 player Sergiy Stakhovsky after he asserted that “every other player is a lesbian” in the world of women’s tennis. In an interview with Ukranian sports website, xsport.ua, Stakhovsky was questioned about the presence of “sexual minorities” in tennis. Stakhovsky […]
