Australia

LGBTI Rights in Australia


ADDED ON: 11/14/2021

Call for asylum for Afghans facing Taliban LGBT kill lists

Just.Equal Australia has urged the Australian Government to provide refuge for LGBTIQA+ Afghans facing persecution under the Taliban regime. The call follows reports from Rainbow Railroad of Taliban LGBT kill lists circulating…

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ADDED ON: 11/11/2021

How ABCQueer hopes to help young LGBTQIA+ people feel less alone

Mon Schafter: As a proud queer person and the Content Lead of ABCQueer, this week's news that the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras and WorldPride will be broadcast on the ABC…

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ADDED ON: 11/04/2021

NSW government announces inquiry into Sydney’s unsolved gay and transgender hate crimes, murders

The NSW government has announced an inquiry into brutal hates crimes committed against members of Sydney's gay community over 40 years. In July 1989, 25-year-old newsreader Ross Warren disappeared from Sydney's eastern…

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ADDED ON: 11/03/2021

The Better Lives Project to educate on intersex variations

The Better Lives Project has been launched to educate midwives and parents about the needs of children born with variations of sex characteristics. Intersex is the umbrella term used for people with…

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ADDED ON: 10/28/2021

Australian professional footballer Josh Cavallo comes out as gay

Australian footballer Josh Cavallo became on Wednesday the first current professional player to come out as openly gay. Cavallo currently plays for Adelaide United in Australia's soccer league and has represented his…

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ADDED ON: 10/25/2021

SYDNEY COULD HAVE AN LGBT MUSEUM BY 2023

A new plan for a queer memorial and museum on Oxford Street is in development. Unlike other major cities such as Melbourne, whose Victorian Pride Centre opened in July this year, Sydney…

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ADDED ON: 10/19/2021

Australia Moves Closer to Ending Harmful Intersex Surgeries

The Australian Human Rights Commission issued a report today analyzing the persistent practice of medically unnecessary non-consensual surgeries on children born with variations in their sex characteristics. The commission urged authorities to…

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ADDED ON: 07/25/2021

”OUT FOR AUSTRALIA’ EXISTS TO SUPPORT LGBT STUDENTS & YOUNG PROFESSIONALS’

Less than 32% of LGBTQIA+ employees in Australia are out to everyone in their workplace and studies reveal that this number is going down. Out For Australia is one of the few…

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ADDED ON: 07/21/2021

RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION BILL CANNOT BE AT THE COST OF LGBT RIGHTS, SAYS LIBERAL MP

The Federal government is set to bring in a new – its third – draft of the Religious Discrimination Bill later this year. But a growing number of Liberal MPs are voicing…

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ADDED ON: 07/19/2021

Alarm as anti-gay messages and Nazi graffiti found in Melbourne

Victorian based LGBTI Jewish group Aleph Melbourne has voiced concern over anti-gay and Nazi graffiti appearing on Gardiners Trail which weaves it was through Melbourne’s eastern suburbs. “Aleph Melbourne condemns the senseless…

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ADDED ON: 07/17/2021

AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT FAILS TO PROTECT RIGHTS OF TRANS AND INTERSEX PERSONS

The Australian government has failed to accept two of five recommendations regarding LGBTQI+ rights, following the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in Geneva earlier this year. On Thursday,…

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ADDED ON: 06/29/2021

377: The British colonial law that left an anti-LGBTQ legacy in Asia

For much of the past two centuries, it was illegal to be gay in a vast swathe of the world - thanks to colonial Britain. Till today, colonial-era laws that ban homosexuality…

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