Oceania

LGBTI Rights in Oceania


ADDED ON: 02/24/2023

Meta profited from anti-LGBTQ+ ads despite entering float in Sydney Mardi Gras

Meta has accepted thousands of dollars from Australian groups promoting anti-LGBTQ+ messages on Facebook, despite the social media company having a float in the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras to show its…

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ADDED ON: 02/17/2023

Changing gender identity: Countries that make it easy

Spain on Thursday joined a small but growing club of nations that allow people to change their gender on their ID card through a simple administrative declaration. Several countries have scrapped requirements for…

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ADDED ON: 02/17/2023

How Progress Shark became Australia’s accidental World Pride icon

What if we put a giant model shark in a sparkly rainbow swimsuit? Like many great ideas, the pitch for Progress Shark - a recent Australian viral sensation - was equal parts…

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ADDED ON: 02/13/2023

LGBT teen Abbie Kelly takes Rainbow Shoelace Project from outback Broken Hill to WorldPride

When Abbie Kelly started making up little packs of rainbow beads for LGBT kids and their friends to thread on their shoelaces in Broken Hill, she had no idea the idea would…

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ADDED ON: 02/11/2023

Anthony Albanese vows to be first Australian PM to march in Sydney Mardi Gras parade

Anthony Albanese will be the first sitting Australian prime minister to march in Sydney's Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras when he joins the parade for the WorldPridefestival. The prime minister says he…

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ADDED ON: 02/07/2023

Special Commission To Examine Seven Gay Hate Crime Deaths In NSW

John Hughes was an out gay man, known to his friends as ‘Skinny John’ and lived in Kings Cross-Potts Point area. In May 1989, 45-year-old Hughes was found dead in his apartment,…

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ADDED ON: 12/27/2022

Sydney’s new LGBT museum Qtopia appoints queer curatorial team

Sydney’s new LGBTQI museum, Qtopia has announced the appointment of its Queer curatorial team in the leadup to its February opening. Queer curators, artists, and archivists Jacqui North and Liz Bradshaw will…

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ADDED ON: 12/23/2022

These two women travelled to every country in the world but kept one thing secret

Travel brought Rachel Davey and Martina Sebova together. Almost 15 years ago, the two women met on a 49-day overland tour of Europe. Rachel, from Victoria, was an on-road chef for a…

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ADDED ON: 12/18/2022

Local Canberra history tour uncovering the lives of the LGBTQIA+ community in the nation’s capital

Once the location of Canberra's first publicly-organised LGBTQIA+ event in the ACT, today Glebe Park, located in the heart of the city, acts as a meeting place for Lucy Dingwall and Sita…

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ADDED ON: 12/06/2022

Sport New Zealand reveals new guidelines for transgender inclusion in community sport

Sport New Zealand has released new guidelines for the inclusion of transgender people in community sport, allowing athletes to compete in the gender they identify with. The overarching principle of the guidelines…

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ADDED ON: 11/27/2022

It took a trip to Australia to find her true self. Now Divina Loloma wants to be Fiji’s first transgender politician

When Divina Loloma was living in Australia, her voice began to change. It was 1987 and she'd left her home country, Fiji, in the aftermath of a violent military coup. Sydney would…

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ADDED ON: 11/23/2022

Police joked about rising tide of gay hate

As stories of teen gangs hunting down homosexual men grew with police ignoring the issue, community leader Gary Cox started a project to shine a light on gay hate crimes in Sydney…

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