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Italy to open transgender-only jail
Italy is to open the world’s first prison facility to cater solely for transgendered people. The 30-bed facility, in the town of Pozzale, near Florence in Tuscany, was formerly a women’s ... Read more
Tue February 9th, 2010 - No Comments
Russian church moderates voice on gays
The new Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, Kirill I, has stated his opposition to discrimination against homosexuals, in a seeming about-face on comments he made as a spokesman for ... Read more
Tue February 9th, 2010 - No Comments
Drugs: you do have rights?
The NSW Council for Civil Liberties president has called for police to get rid of drug sniffer dogs so that resources can be channelled into prosecuting violent crime. Civil Liberties Council ... Read more
Sat February 6th, 2010 - 4 Comments
Dogs: sniffing out the logic
For those planning on partying through the Mardi Gras season, the NSW Government has a warning for you — Don’t Do Drugs. NSW Police Minister Michael Daley has defended the use ... Read more
Fri February 5th, 2010 - 4 Comments
United stand against violence
The Anti-Violence Project (AVP) and NSW Police have launched a campaign to encourage gay and lesbian crime victims to come forward, just in time for the busy Mardi Gras period. The ... Read more
Tue February 2nd, 2010 - 9 Comments
Policy vacuum on gay seniors
Gerontologist Dr Jo Harrison has called for sweeping reforms to the federal approach to the needs of gay and lesbian seniors. Currently the only recognition of gay and lesbian seniors in ... Read more
Tue January 26th, 2010 - 13 Comments
ALP marriage ally to retire
Veteran Labor politician Bob McMullan has announced he will retire at the next federal election. McMullan, currently parliamentary secretary for international development assistance, plans to devote his time to the fight ... Read more
Tue January 26th, 2010 - 3 Comments
Restaurant to open on DCM’s site
A restaurant and function centre is to open on the site of the old DCMs nightclub. The Mediterranean, operated by the same company that runs the Tandoori Palace and karaoke room ... Read more
Tue January 26th, 2010 - No Comments
Family First gets party status
Family First NSW will be an official party at the next state election after signing up 853 members in under three months and paying a $2000 registration fee to the ... Read more
Tue January 19th, 2010 - 2 Comments
Greens name Wentworth candidate
The Greens have preselected Darlinghurst local Matthew Robertson to contest the seat of Wentworth at the 2010 federal election. Robertson, a legal researcher for the Refugee Advice and Casework Service, holds ... Read more
Tue January 12th, 2010 - 1 Comment
Venn-Brown reports back on US trip
Former Christian preacher and Freedom 2 b[e] co-convenor Anthony Venn-Brown has thanked SLGBA for its support for his November trip to the United States where he attended the 2009 Ex-Gay ... Read more
Tue January 12th, 2010 - No Comments
Man claims job discrimination
After being retrenched twice last year, English recruitment consultant Wayne Reveley couldn’t believe his luck when he received three job offers. After several interviews, Reveley thought he’d found the job for ... Read more
Tue January 5th, 2010 - 14 Comments
Mormon church backs gay law
The Church of Latter-Day Saints, also known as the Mormons, has put its support behind laws granting protections to GLBT people. The Salt Lake City ordinances make it illegal for a ... Read more
Tue January 5th, 2010 - 12 Comments
Couple bashed at hotel
A Glebe gay couple’s Saturday night at the Glasgow Arms pub in Ultimo turned into a nightmare after they were allegedly set upon by four patrons in the hotel’s restrooms. Paul ... Read more
Tue December 22nd, 2009 - 17 Comments
Gay Tony’s grand theft
The world’s biggest video game has put gay themes in its latest instalment. The Ballad of Gay Tony is a new chapter expanding Grand Theft Auto IV which made half a ... Read more
Mon December 21st, 2009 - No Comments
Gay ex-Brethren given rapist drug
A former member of the Exclusive Brethren says he was encouraged to seek medical treatment to suppress his sexuality and prescribed a drug used to treat sex offenders. Craig Hoyle grew ... Read more
Mon December 21st, 2009 - 2 Comments
Nile apologises for homophobic email
NSW MLC Fred Nile has had to apologise after the adult son of a Christian Democrat official sent obscene homophobic and anti-Islam emails to a Muslim community activist. Mal Mac Rae, ... Read more
Mon December 21st, 2009 - 8 Comments
Better counselling for GLBTS
Psychologist Paul Martin of Brisbane’s Centre for Human Potential is bringing his Working Effectively with Gay and Lesbian Clients workshop to Sydney, Cairns, Perth and Darwin. The workshop came about as ... Read more
Mon December 21st, 2009 - No Comments
Australia finally condemns Uganda
Australia has joined the chorus of nations raising concerns with Uganda’s Government over its proposed Anti-Homosexuality Bill. The bill punishes any expression of same-sex intimacy with life imprisonment, while HIV-positive GLBT ... Read more
Mon December 21st, 2009 - 3 Comments
MCC waves goodbye to Heffron Hall
After 30 years in the area, and 21 years in the building, the Metropolitan Community Church Sydney has finally waved goodbye to Darlinghurst’s Heffron Hall, vacating the building on Friday. The ... Read more
Mon December 21st, 2009 - No Comments
Early use of ‘gay’ revealed
A new official history of the UK’s MI5 spy agency has revealed an early use of the word ‘gay’ to describe the GLBT community. The book, The Defence of the Realm: ... Read more
Mon December 21st, 2009 - No Comments
Government fails on Uganda at CHOGM
The Australian Government failed to confront Uganda at last month’s Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Trinidad and Tobago over the Anti-Homosexuality Bill currently before Uganda’s parliament. The EU, Britain, ... Read more
Wed December 16th, 2009 - 14 Comments
Keneally evasive on reform
New NSW premier Kristina Keneally has restated her support for anti-discrimination exemptions that allow students at schools owned by religious organisations to be expelled on the grounds of sexuality and ... Read more
Wed December 16th, 2009 - 17 Comments
New plan to stop violence
The Anti-Violence Campaign and NSW Police will collaborate next year on a campaign to encourage GLBT victims of crime to come forward. The move follows an ongoing reluctance by some members ... Read more
Tue December 15th, 2009 - 3 Comments
Imperial back to court
Negotiations between the Imperial Hotel and the City of Sydney will go back to the Land and Environment Court, further delaying the opening of the iconic inner west venue. The new ... Read more
Tue December 15th, 2009 - 5 Comments
GAMMA
GAMMA, a support group for married men who have sex with men, meets in secure confidential and non-sexual surroundings at the ACON building, 9 Commonwealth St, Surry Hills, on the first and third Wednesdays of each month at 8pm. There is also a support line, Monday-Friday 6-10 pm, on 9267 4000.
www.gamma.org.auGAY BUSINESS
The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Business Association hosts Lemons With a Twist on the first Friday of each month and Fruits in Suits on the third Thursday of each month, at Slide.
www.sglba.com.auCOME OUT AUSTRALIA
Come Out Australia is a social group for our community, with branches in Canterbury-Bankstown, Epping/ Northern Districts and Penrith. You're invited to "Come Out"; get involved with a branch, event, project, or to start something happening in your area.
www.comeout.org.auQUEERSCREEN
Lovers of gay cinema are encouraged to become a member of Queerscreen, Sydney’s premier gay and lesbian film festival body.
www.queerscreen.com.au
Current Issue
Wine, dine and be entertained
4Play is a collaboration by some of Australia’s best theatrical talent running at Slide this Mardi Gras. Under the artistic direction of Stephen Carnell, the show is a true feast of tasty treats, delivering five ... Read more
Letters
SCANNERS With Mardi Gras fast approaching there will be a spike in anti-gay violence. I recently ... Read more
A quiet kind of Pride
Commentating on the Victorian Pride March for JOY 94.9 on Sunday gave me a ... Read more
Suspended in time
Love. We live and die by love. We live searching for it and when ... Read more
Vanessa’s pleasure machine
Drag superstar Vanessa Wagner wants to take you on a trip this Mardi Gras. ... Read more
Leomeo returns
We first got a taste of his incredible talent last year at one of ... Read more