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Added on: 08/18/2020

SOUTH AUSTRALIAN BAN ON CONVERSION THERAPY TO BE SHAPED BY SURVIVORS

08/18/2020

Following Queensland’s banning of conversion therapy last week, Star Observer spoke to South Australia’s Shadow Human Services Minister, Nat Cook, about her draft bill to ban conversion…

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Added on: 08/14/2020

Queensland becomes first Australian state to outlaw gay conversion therapy

08/13/2020

Queensland has become the first state in Australia to criminalise so-called gay conversion therapy after regional lawmakers voted on Thursday to make the practice illegal. Under the…

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Added on: 08/14/2020

Anti-gay Christian group forced to pay out after ‘demoralising’ atmosphere drove worker to porn and a damaging stroke

08/13/2020

A worker at an anti-gay Christian group has been awarded compensation after stressful working conditions drove him to watch pornography and suffer a stroke. Michael Bowker, 47,…

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Added on: 07/01/2020

Just A Bunch Of Amazing Queer Black And Indigenous Artists To Support

06/30/2020

Before it was renowned as a party, Pride was (and still is) a protest movement built out from the Stonewall riots. Stonewall couldn’t have happened without Black…

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Added on: 05/23/2020

Australia: Grant to help LGBT conversion survivors

05/22/2020

Researchers from La Trobe University have been awarded an Australian Research Council Linkage grant to improve the support provided to survivors of LGBT conversion practices. Dr Timothy…

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Added on: 05/06/2020

LAWS ALLOWING LEGAL GENDER CHANGE WITHOUT SURGERY INTRODUCED IN AUSTRALIAN STATE OF VICTORIA

05/05/2020

New laws have come into effect in the Australian state of Victoria that now allow trans and gender diverse Victorians to alter the sex recorded on their…

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Added on: 05/01/2020

A Court Guessed How Gay Men From Conservative Families Would React After First Having Sex. It Cost Two Men Their Refugee Status.

04/3/2020

Two young men from Pakistan who feared persecution because they were in a homosexual relationship had their refugee claims rejected because a tribunal made “illogical” assumptions about…

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Added on: 04/28/2020

POLAND IS AUSTRALIA’S ‘LOGICAL CONCLUSION’ OF EXCLUDING LGBTQI PEOPLE WITH RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION BILL

04/27/2020

The ‘LGBTQI exclusion zones’ throughout Poland are the logical extension of excluding LGBTIQ people from public life through ‘religious freedom’. According to national lobby group Just-Equal’s spokesperson…

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Added on: 03/28/2020

Explained: The 33 Gender Identities Recognised By The Australian Sex Survey

03/27/2020

The acronym “LGBT” was once considered sufficiently representational of non-heterosexual sexuality and gender types. Well, it looks like we’re going to need a few more letters. A…

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Added on: 03/01/2020

Sydney to ‘feel the love’ at Mardi Gras today

03/01/2020

Sydney Mardi Gras CEO Albert Kruger says this year’s event will include “everyone from all walks of life that touches our community”. Sydneysiders are preparing to ‘feel…

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Added on: 02/29/2020

Shameful statistic staining Australia: Young LGBTI people twice as likely to be homeless

02/28/2020

A group of 1000 people will come together this weekend to stand in the shape of a house to raise awareness of a shameful statistic about the…

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Added on: 02/25/2020

SETBACKS FOR QUEENSLAND’S CONVERSION THERAPY BAN

02/24/2020

Australia’s first proposed legislation criminalising “LGBT conversion therapy” has suffered setbacks and divides after receiving criticism and support on issues of medicinal practice and gender dysphoria. Under…

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Added on: 02/22/2020

Australian state mulls nation’s first gay ‘conversion therapy’ ban

02/21/2020

An Australian state is considering the nation’s first ban and jail sentences for so-called gay conversion therapy, a bid that has sparked division more than two years…

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Added on: 02/18/2020

As Australia looks to act on LGBT conversion practices, survivors and religious groups speak out

01/17/2020

Raised in an ultra-conservative Anglican family, transgender woman Roe Johnson says she spent her childhood being told she was broken. The 49-year-old from Melbourne says she lived…

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Added on: 01/29/2020

Israel Folau joins Europe rugby league team after being axed for homophobic comments

01/28/2020

Australian rugby player Israel Folau has been signed by the Catalan Dragons, a Super League rugby team, for a 12-month contract. The 30-year-old dual-code international was dropped…

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Added on: 01/28/2020

Queensland religious groups fight move to make gay conversion therapy a crime

01/27/2020

Religious schools and organisations are fighting a move by the Queensland government to make LGBT-related conversion therapy a crime in the state. In late November, the Queensland…

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Added on: 01/21/2020

Gender neutral toilets greet Margaret Court at Australian Open

01/21/2020

The Australian Open has made available two new gender-neutral toilets for the first time at Rod Laver Arena, the same day as Margaret Court made her return…

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Added on: 01/20/2020

Reaching out to gay congregants

01/20/2020

AUSTRALIA’S Orthodox rabbis will soon have a set of guidelines on engaging with gay congregants under an initiative being developed by the Rabbinical Council of Australia and…

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Added on: 01/14/2020

Grief over death of Young Liberal Wilson Gavin after drag queen protest

01/13/2020

Friends and opponents alike have expressed their grief after the death of Wilson Gavin, the leader of a rightwing student club at the University of Queensland, who…

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Added on: 01/12/2020

Glam Slam event rolls out welcome mat for Margaret Court

01/11/2020

As the organiser of Australia’s biggest LGBTQI tennis tournament, the Glam Slam, Rowen D’Souza finds it useful to be ‘‘a little bit cheeky’’. In November at a…

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Added on: 01/12/2020

Right wing students accost drag queen at children’s library event to ‘defend LNP values’

01/11/2020

An Australian pop star has slammed a group of right wing student protestors for yelling anti LGBT slogans at a family event featuring a drag queen. In…

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Added on: 01/11/2020

Perth dance for older members of the LGBT community

01/10/2020

Older members of the local LGBT community will be able to attend a social dance next weekend. The LGBT Elders Social Dance will be held at Perth…

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Added on: 12/29/2019

What happened? The policies Scott Morrison’s government appears to have abandoned

12/28/2019

Governments should be judged not just on what they do with their time in office but also on what they don’t do. There are only so many…

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Added on: 12/27/2019

How gender norms affect anti-LBGT prejudice around the world

12/27/2019

A study conducted in 20 countries across the globe has shown that prejudice and discrimination against the LGBT community remains deep-rooted. In order to determine the ways…

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Added on: 12/20/2019

SAME-SEX FAMILY DOLL SET CRITICISED FOR LACK OF RACIAL DIVERSITY

12/19/2019

Kmart Australia has added two same-sex couples to one of its family doll ranges, but shoppers have criticised the company for creating exclusively white dolls. The family…

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Added on: 12/17/2019

Gay Saudi journalists both freed from Australian detention after ‘powerful’ LGBT community rallied round them

12/17/2019

The two gay Saudi journalists who sought asylum in Australia have both finally been freed after one was forced to remain alone in a detention centre due…

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Added on: 12/14/2019

Australian anti-discrimination board accepts complaint against Israel Folau

12/13/2019

An anti-discrimination board in Australia has accepted a complaint against former Wallabies star Israel Folau accusing him of the “vilification of LGBT people”. Gay anti-discrimination activist Garry…

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Added on: 12/13/2019

Revisions announced to Australia religious freedom bill

12/12/2019

Following religious groups’ criticism of an Australian bill intended to protect religious freedom, Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Attorney-General Christian Porter have released a second version that…

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Added on: 12/05/2019

Senate calls on government to expedite asylum claim of two gay Saudi journalists in ‘arbitrary’ detention

12/04/2019

The Senate has passed a motion calling on the government to recognise the increased risk it has placed on two gay Saudi journalists by keeping them in…

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Added on: 11/21/2019

LGBT advocates call for Australia to release Saudi gay journalist couple

11/20/2019

Two gay Saudi journalists, who claim they were outed in retaliation for contacts one of them had with a foreign media outlet, have been detained in Australia…