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OPINION It’s time for politics to reflect the true diversity of Australia. The current government has been a disappointment, run by people out of touch with regular folk. This election gives our community the chance to regain hope and demand real change. I’m the Greens second Senate candidate, supporting Senator Dorinda Cox. I joined the […]
Tags: Opinion, river clarke, The Greens
27 Apr 2022 /
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OPINION: Rodney Croome AM is a long-time LGBTIQ+ advocate I recently wrote an article in which I referred to “the Sydney Disease” holding Australia back on LGBTIQ+ human rights. Because some people in Sydney took issue with what I wrote I appreciate this opportunity to clarify. Offense was taken by the word “disease” so I’ll […]
Tags: Opinion, Rodney Croome, Sydney
17 Feb 2022 |
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OPINION Colin Longworth is a psychologist in private practice and long term volunteer with Living Proud and it’s predecessor organisations. It seems to me that opposition to protecting the public from the ‘noxious weed of ‘conversion therapy’ is raising its ugly head again in Western Australia. Partly it seems, in response to the idea that […]
Tags: Colin Longworth, conversion therapy, Opinion, religious freedom, State Election
6 Mar 2021 |
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OPINION Last Monday the United States celebrated Martin Luther King Day. Although for most people it was a day off work, it’s not intended to be a holiday. It is a day set aside to commemorate the life of the great man with acts of community service. Martin Luther King Day is a day of […]
Tags: Australia Day, invasion day, Opinion, Patrick Coward
25 Jan 2021 |
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I’m a WA representative for Intersex Peer Support Australia (IPSA), a national intersex-led charity that provides peer support to people with intersex variations and our families. In my role, I get to meet many other people with intersex variations and parents, and we get to understand the difficulties and joys that Intersex people have to […]
Tags: Intersex, Opinion, personal story
29 Nov 2020 |
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OPINION It’s over half a century since the Stonewall riots in New York’s Greenwich Village started on Saturday 28th June 1969. With these being seen as a significant event in the battle for LGBTIQ+ rights in the United States, it can however be sobering to consider what has happened, and not happened, since then. To […]
Tags: Colin Longworth, Opinion, stonewall
28 Jun 2020 |
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An opinion piece published in the April edition of OUTinPerth magazine has been noticed and shared by Queerty, one of the biggest LGBTI news sites in the world. Anthony K.J. Smith shared his thoughts and experiences about how people living with HIV are treated by others. The article shared the experiences of several local gay men […]
Tags: Anthony KJ Smith, HIV, Opinion, personal persepctive, Queerty
1 May 2017 |
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OPINION When a local Facebook community page changed their name, a conversation began. It is a conversation I have had and heard before, a complex discussion our community has been having for decades now: What is the most appropriate name for our community? The administrators of the local page shortened the “LGBTIQ+” acronym to “LGBT+”. […]
Tags: labels, leigh hill, LGBT, LGBTI, LGBTIQ, lgbtqia, Opinion, queer, quiltbag
26 Jul 2016 |
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OPINION “Are you guys gay?” was the question a stranger recently asked me as I was walking down the street. I was walking down Beaufort Street in Mount Lawley and had just stopped at the junction to cross the road. My mind immediately went on fast rewind, had my friends and I been talking about […]
Tags: Cory Bernardi, Diane Teasdale, Graeme Watson, Homophobia, Malcolm Turnbull, Marriage, marriage equality, Opinion, OUTinPerth, plebiscite, Prime Minister, Q&A, Reality Check
21 Jun 2016 |
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I don’t know how many times I had two-minute noodles while I was growing up. Definitely hundreds of times, if not thousands. I ate a lot of them when I was a struggling student, and later in my thirties, when we were a single income household with a big mortgage, they were a staple item. […]
Tags: arief r wismansyah, Ben Carson, bullying, Editor's Thoughts, evo morales, Graeme Watson, Homophobia, Kevin Swanson, LGBTI bullying, Opinion, safe schools, Transphobia
17 Apr 2016 |
Filed under Graeme Watson,Opinion |
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