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Added on: 11/03/2019

Canberra Is The Same-Sex Capital Of Australia

10 Daily
11/01/2019
Canberrans are 50 percent more likely to be in same-sex relationships than any other major city in Australia. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) does not ask…
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Added on: 10/22/2019

Conversion therapy: PM concerned about ‘vulnerable’ LGBT youth

Stuff NZ
10/21/2019
The Prime Minister has expressed concern about “vulnerable” youth at risk of undergoing gay or trans conversion therapy. Conversion therapy is where people try to change lesbian,…
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Added on: 10/20/2019

‘Please leave’: why the Sydney archbishop’s same-sex marriage message has Anglicans rattled

The Guardian
10/20/2019
For a man renowned for his civility, the language was blunt. During his annual speech to the Anglican Church’s Sydney synod, Archbishop Glenn Davies told supporters of…
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Added on: 10/10/2019

Australian Christian Lobby backs sacking of employees with no ‘Christian sexual ethic’

The Guardian
10/09/2019
The Australian Christian Lobby has backed calls for religious businesses such as aged care providers to gain more powers of hiring and firing employees who do not…
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Added on: 10/08/2019

Questions about sexual orientation and gender identity dumped from census

The Guardian
10/04/2019
The Australian Bureau of Statistics has ditched preparations to ask about sexual orientation and gender identity in the 2021 census, although a question on whether people are…
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Added on: 10/04/2019

No, there’s no such thing as ‘rapid onset gender dysphoria’

Pink News
10/03/2019
Australian experts have debunked ‘rapid onset gender dysphoria’ in a strongly-worded position statement. The phrase emerged in 2018 and posits that a “social and peer contagion” is…
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Added on: 10/02/2019

Australia Post releases marriage equality stamps

Q News
10/01/2019
Australia Post has unveiled two commemorative stamps to mark the passage of marriage equality nearly two years ago. The majority “yes” vote for same-sex was announced on…
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Added on: 10/01/2019

Kal Queers’ monthly event Queer Beers marks new era of greater visibility for LGBT people in Kalgoorlie-Boulder

ABC Australia
09/29/2019
LGBT people in regional Western Australia say a lack of visible queer communities in country towns and cities makes people feel isolated and less likely to access…
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Added on: 09/19/2019

Qantas and Virgin bosses reject Morrison government calls to be silent on social issues

The Guardian
09/18/2019
The chief executives of Australia’s major airlines have warned they will not be silent on social issues, with Qantas’s Alan Joyce arguing it was not just “morally…
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Added on: 09/17/2019

Inside Australia’s Christian churches where gay people are told they are ‘broken’ and ‘need to be fixed’ before they undergo ‘conversion therapy’

Daily Mail
09/15/2019
Gay Christians are being sent to ‘conversion therapy’, an outdated form of ‘counselling’ which teaches homosexuality is a form of ‘brokenness’, it has been revealed. An explosive…
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Added on: 09/15/2019

Conservative Christians, feminists unite to fight transgender rights in Australia

Global News Canada
09/14/2019
Conservative Christians and feminist campaigners may seem unlikely bed fellows – but the two groups have found common cause when it comes to blocking transgender rights in…
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Added on: 09/12/2019

Strange bed fellows unite to fight trans rights in Australia

Reuters
09/11/2019
Conservative Christians and feminist campaigners may seem unlikely bedfellows – but the two groups have found common cause when it comes to blocking transgender rights in Australia….
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Added on: 09/02/2019

Birth certificate reform passes through Victorian Parliament

OUT in Perth
08/28/2019
The Victorian Legislative Council last night passed an amendment to the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1996 (Vic), making it possible for transgender and gender diverse…
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Added on: 08/30/2019

Religious discrimination bill: Coalition accused of creating a ‘Trojan horse for hate’

The Guardian
08/29/2019
Christian Porter releases bill, which will stop employers from limiting workers’ religious expression in private following fallout from Israel Folau’s sacking. LBTQI advocates have condemned the government’s…
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Added on: 08/28/2019

Victorian MPs vote to allow trans and gender-diverse to change sex recorded on birth certificate

Guardian
08/28/2019
On Tuesday in Victoria, Australia, a new law was passed to allow trans and gender-diverse people to change their recorded sex on their birth cirtificates. Following much…
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Added on: 08/26/2019

How children became the target in a rightwing culture war over gender

the Guardian
08/25/2019
Evie is like many 14-year-old girls. After school she likes to hang out with her friends, or go home and watch Netflix. She says she would like…
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Added on: 08/25/2019

WORLD Australians ‘overwhelmingly’ believe religious groups should not have the right to discriminate against LGBT people

Pink News
08/24/2019
The Galaxy/YouGov poll, commissioned by PFLAG Australia, showed that 63 percent of people in Australia disagreed with religious discrimination against groups like unmarried mothers or people who…
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Added on: 08/15/2019

Bill to allow transgender people to change birth certificate without surgery clears first hurdle in Victoria

The Guardian
08/15/2019
A bill to allow transgender and gender diverse people to change the sex listed on their birth certificate without surgery has cleared its first hurdle, passing the…
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Added on: 08/14/2019

Australian national newspaper condemned for appalling coverage of transgender issues

Pink News
08/14/2019
Journalist Bernard Lane of The Australian newspaper, announced a gender issues section on the broadsheet’s website on Friday to widespread criticism from LGBT+ advocates. The section so far…
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Added on: 08/13/2019

Australia Prime Minister Joins Transgender Policy Backlash

US News and World Report
08/09/2019
Cricket Australia (CA) have come under fire for a new policy aimed at making the sport inclusive for transgender and gender diverse players, with Prime Minister Scott…
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Added on: 08/08/2019

Australia: Pressure building on Qantas to end LGBT+ deportations

Pink News
08/07/2019
A group of influential LGBT-supportive celebrities have signed an open letter calling on Qantas to end its forced deportations of LGBT+ asylum seekers. Quantas, Australia’s largest airline,…
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Added on: 08/03/2019

Australian booksellers petitioned to pull ‘conversion therapy’ titles

Q News
08/01/2019
Equality Australia have launched a petition calling on Australian booksellers to remove titles promoting harmful LGBTIQ “conversion therapy”. The group’s call comes after Amazon recently agreed to…
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Added on: 07/29/2019

Do LGBT asylum seekers need to look and act queer?

Out in Perth
07/26/2019
LGBTQI+ Muslims seeking asylum are more successful if they speak, dress and act in accordance with Western notions of homosexuality, according to a new study. The study,…
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Added on: 07/17/2019

With Number 96, Australia brought queer people to TV decades before anyone else

The Guardian
07/15/2019
Once upon a time Australian TV led the world in shattering LGBT taboos – with the world’s first regular gay character in 1972, followed by a trans…
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Added on: 06/23/2019

Struggle among progress as countries restrict LGBTQ rights

New York Times
06/23/2019
The world has been transformed in many ways in the 50 years since the uprising at the Stonewall Inn, with major shifts in the past decade alone…
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Added on: 06/13/2019

Samoa Fa’afafine Association protests censor of Elton John film

RNZ
06/12/2019
LGBTI rights advocates in Samoa are protesting against the censoring of the Elton John biopic Rocketman. Samoa’s only cinema revealed the ban on Friday on its Facebook…
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Added on: 06/06/2019

Dance club for LGBT elders to be held in South Australia for the first time

ABC
06/05/2019
A dance club for LGBT elders will be held in South Australia for the first time, as part of the Adelaide Cabaret Festival. The free event is…
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Added on: 05/16/2019

Māori, Pasifika, LGBT and disabled over-represented in Auckland homeless count

New Zealand Herald
05/16/2019
More than 3600 people were living without shelter or in temporary accommodation on one night in Auckland last year, and nearly 40 per cent of those were…
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Added on: 05/12/2019

New govt must prioritize laws to protect students from discrimination in schools

DeviDiscourse
05/09/2019
The next Australian government must prioritise laws to ban schools from expelling or discriminating against gay students and teachers, LGBT+ advocates said on Thursday, amid an election…
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Added on: 05/07/2019

Rainbow flags confiscated at Singapore concert of openly gay singer Troye Sivan

New York Daily News
05/06/2019
Fans of the openly gay singer Troye Sivan were told not to wave rainbow flags during a concert in Singapore last Friday. LGBTQ rights activist Benjamin Xue…
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