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Added on: 02/28/2023

On Zero Discrimination Day, UNAIDS urges Asia Pacific countries to decriminalise to save lives

02/27/2023

On Zero Discrimination Day, commemorated on March 1, UNAIDS highlights the need to remove laws that criminalise people living with HIV and key populations. (Key populations are…

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Added on: 02/28/2023

Australia to advocate for LGBTQ rights in Asia-Pacific

02/26/2023

Australia’s first dedicated fund to promote international LGBTQ rights will be created in a federal government move hailed by equality advocates as a groundbreaking step to reduce…

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Added on: 02/27/2023

Anti-LGBTQIA+ group defaces rainbow church steps

02/25/2023

A small but vocal group targeting the LGBTQIA+ community have defaced the steps of a progressive church in protest. On the eve of Saturday’s Mardi Gras parade…

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Added on: 02/27/2023

Farmers first and foremost, these gay graziers are breaking stereotypes

02/25/2023

When Jon Wright came out as gay as a 28-year-old farmer, he found support from the community and family — a welcome relief for the grazier after…

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Added on: 02/26/2023

Anti-LGBTQIA+ group defaces rainbow church steps

02/26/2023

A small but vocal group targeting the LGBTQIA+ community have defaced the steps of a progressive church in protest. On the eve of Saturday’s Mardi Gras parade…

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Added on: 02/26/2023

Farmers first and foremost, these gay graziers are breaking stereotypes

02/25/2023

When Jon Wright came out as gay as a 28-year-old farmer, he found support from the community and family — a welcome relief for the grazier after…

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Added on: 02/25/2023

The ‘I’ in LGBTIQ+: What it’s like to be intersex in Australia

02/25/2023

Gabrielle Colliver was studying for her HSC when she got a diagnosis that doctors said would change her life, and left her feeling isolated and confused. At…

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Added on: 02/24/2023

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

02/23/2023

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…

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Added on: 02/17/2023

Changing gender identity: Countries that make it easy

02/16/2023

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…

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Added on: 02/17/2023

How Progress Shark became Australia’s accidental World Pride icon

02/16/2023

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…

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Added on: 02/13/2023

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

02/12/2023

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…

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Added on: 02/11/2023

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

02/11/2023

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….

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Added on: 02/07/2023

Special Commission To Examine Seven Gay Hate Crime Deaths In NSW

02/06/2023

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…

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Added on: 12/27/2022

Sydney’s new LGBT museum Qtopia appoints queer curatorial team

12/26/2022

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…

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Added on: 12/23/2022

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

12/22/2022

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…

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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

12/17/2022

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…

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Added on: 12/06/2022

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

12/5/2022

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…

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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

11/26/2022

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…

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Added on: 11/23/2022

Police joked about rising tide of gay hate

11/22/2022

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…

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Added on: 11/11/2022

SYDNEY’S LGBT MUSEUM QTOPIA WILL RE-CREATE AUSTRALIA’S FIRST HIV/AIDS UNIT – WARD 17

11/10/2022

Sydney’s new LGBTQI museum Qtopia has announced its very first exhibition – a restaging of Ward 17 South, Australia’s very first dedicated HIV/AIDS unit that was located…

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Added on: 11/07/2022

Australian Jewish group is concerned about homophobia in new Israeli government

11/06/22

The Executive Council of Australian Jewry have congratulated incoming Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on his election win but have also voiced concern about homophobic elements within…

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Added on: 11/02/2022

NSW gay hate murder probe seeks ‘justice’

11/01/2022

A landmark NSW inquiry is investigating cold-case murders of gay men and LGBTQI community members. Led by Justice John Sackar, the special commission of inquiry into hate…

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Added on: 10/24/2022

COUNCILLOR EQUATES LGBT PRIDE FLAG TO NAZI FLAG

10/24/2022

The discussion to fly the LGBTQI rainbow Pride flag over a Victorian regional shire headquarters turned ugly recently when a councillor compared it to a Nazi symbol….

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Added on: 10/14/2022

Sydney’s first queer museum, Qtopia, to open ahead of Sydney WorldPride at Darlinghurst’s Green Park

10/11/2022

A Darlinghurst park next to a famous gay men’s pick-up spot in the 1960s and down the road from Oxford Street will be the initial home of…

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Added on: 10/07/2022

New Zealand Gay Man’s Convictions Overturned 3 Years after Death

10/07/2022

New Zealand’s Supreme Court on Friday took the unusual step of overturning a man’s convictions even though he died three years ago. The court found there had…

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Added on: 09/26/2022

New Netflix documentary follows life of Australian trans teen who challenged laws to affirm gender

09/25/2022

When she was 10, Georgie Stone became the youngest person in Australia to receive hormone blockers. Stone is transgender and had to go to court to fight for…

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Added on: 09/12/2022

Drag queens and TikTokers: queer Fijian influencers challenging traditional notions of masculinity

09/11/2022

Sevuloni Lule, a professional dancer from Lautoka City in western Fiji, is causing a stir on Shenzen’s club scene in China. Or rather, his drag alter ego – Savanaah…

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Added on: 09/06/2022

‘Brisbane has come of age’: the queer and migrant artists helping shed the city’s ‘cringe’

09/05/2022

It seemed every single person in Brisbane was on the banks of the Maiwar river on Saturday afternoon, settling in with beach chairs and eskies to get…

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Added on: 09/05/2022

On this day: Gay Liberation Australia, angry and proud

09/05/2022

“Had I known at the age of 15 that my lesbianism could have been ‘cured’, I would have rushed to Dr McConaghy as my saviour,” wrote Lindy…

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Added on: 08/22/2022

Conversion therapy survivors can seek apologies and compensation under New Zealand scheme

08/21/2022

The country’s Human Rights Commission launched a free and confidential dispute resolution service for those subjected to the dangerous and discredited practice on Thursday (18 August). The government-funded Conversion Practices…