Hardly a month goes by without a study simply scandalising some people with the salacious suggestion that self-identifying straights might not be quite as Heterosexual as they like to make out. Most of us are unsurprised, the Kinsey scale is so old there’s Egyptian hieroglyphics mentioning it. Even while Biphobia and Bierasure still persist, the […]
OPINION Journalists, opinion writers and commentators are up in arms this morning over reports that Roz Ward, one of the founders of the Safe Schools program, suggested that 50% of kids are gay. Except Ward never said that at all. The latest ‘clutch your pearls’ moment from the mainstream media began with a report from Rebecca […]
Author S.E. Hinton, who wrote the popular teen-fiction books The Outsiders, Tex, Rumblefish and That was then This is now, has complained that she’s been targeted by the LGBT community after she insisted all the characters in her novels were definitely heterosexual. Hinton’s career began in the late 1960, she wrote her first novel The Outsiders while she was 15 years […]
Jack Garber is a state councilor for Western Australian Council of State School Organisations (WACSSO). He has trained as lawyer, he’s a father, and the chairperson of two independent schools in The South Swan district. Significantly; Jack lobbied for and secured endorsement of the Safe School Coalition from WACSSO when funding was made available to […]
Joe Douglas is a mate. We have known each other for nearly 7 years now. He has saved my life on more than one occasion. Joe is not a big fan of labels. When I said I thought he was a straight ally, he was very reluctant to take on the mantle. He would hate […]
A young straight man working in a bottle shop in Morley has conducted a social experiment over the last three months, and has decided to speak out about it. Benjamin Sloot posed as gay to customers, a decision that stemmed from a light-hearted interest in how the public would react. Starting as a joke between […]
