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Norrie backflip ‘a breach of rights’
Well-known community activist norrie mAy-welby has lodged a complaint with the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) after the NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages backflipped on issuing norrie with ... Read more
Thu March 18th, 2010 - No Comments
Norrie’s may well be the first of their kind
In what may be a world first, the NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages has provided community activist norrie mAy-welby with a Recognised Details Certificate saying that norrie is ... Read more
Wed March 17th, 2010 - 10 Comments
Catholic priest supports gay parents
A Queensland Catholic priest has made headlines by publicly contradicting his Archbishop after that state voted to legalise altruistic surrogacy for same-sex couples and singles this month. Brisbane Archbishop John Bathersby ... Read more
Mon March 15th, 2010 - 3 Comments
We were wrong
Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young says a deal was struck to to force a vote on her same-sex marriage bill, but that it was between Labor and the Coalition and not ... Read more
Wed March 10th, 2010 - 26 Comments
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HIV+ migrant inquiry
Some of the nation’s peak AIDS bodies have used an inquiry into migration by disabled people to lobby for reform of rules affecting immigrants with HIV. In 2008, Immigration Minister Chris ... Read more
Tue March 9th, 2010 - 4 Comments
Push for religious civil unions in UK
A coalition of high-ranking Christians and politicians is pushing for the UK’s civil partnership laws to be amended to enable religious denominations to marry same-sex couples and to use religious ... Read more
Sat March 6th, 2010 - 6 Comments
Campaign to stop Iran executions
An international campaign has been launched to end the death penalty in Iran. Iran has carried out thousands of executions since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, with men who have sex with ... Read more
Thu March 4th, 2010 - 5 Comments
Greens marriage sell-out
Questions have been raised about the Greens’ commitment to the Marriage Equality Bill after it emerged the party brokered a deal with the major parties that limited debate and forced ... Read more
Wed March 3rd, 2010 - 52 Comments
Registries by the year’s end
The NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages will be registering same-sex and heterosexual de facto couples before year’s end if the Government has its way. “It is anticipated that the ... Read more
Wed March 3rd, 2010 - 9 Comments
No progress on federal anti-discrimination
A gay former ALP supporter is considering moving to Canada over the Government’s failure to end discrimination against gay and lesbian Australians under federal law. In 2008, the Government amended around ... Read more
Wed March 3rd, 2010 - 5 Comments
Move on GLBT rights: EU
The European Union has reaffirmed that countries wanting to join must provide genuine protections for their GLBT citizens. In accepting reports on membership bids by Croatia, Macedonia and Turkey, the European ... Read more
Tue March 2nd, 2010 - 2 Comments
Marriage Bill debate begins today
The Greens and Parents and Friends of Lesbians And Gays (PFLAG) have spoken out prior to debate in the Senate on the Marriage Equality (Amendment) Bill. Senator Sarah Hanson-Young said she ... Read more
Thu February 25th, 2010 - 9 Comments
Marriage back on the agenda
Federal Parliament will debate the Greens Marriage Equality Amendment Bill this week, three months after a Senate committee recommended against it. Opinions in the committee fell along party lines, with Labor ... Read more
Tue February 23rd, 2010 - 3 Comments
Opposition to Uganda death bill grows
The campaign against Uganda’s death penalty bill for homosexuality has received the backing of leading figures both inside and outside Africa. Early this month, US President Barack Obama criticised the bill ... Read more
Tue February 23rd, 2010 - 7 Comments
Gay ’super uncles’ to the rescue
Canadian researchers believe they have found evidence that homosexuality may be an example of ‘kin selection’ whereby individuals within a species pass on genes by helping their relatives survive, rather ... Read more
Tue February 23rd, 2010 - 4 Comments
Queensland moves on surrogacy
Queensland has voted to legalise altruistic surrogacy for all couples and single people, and to allow non-biological parents to be recognised on birth certificates. In a vote of 48 in favour ... Read more
Wed February 17th, 2010 - 2 Comments
Axe hangs over right-wing Liberals
The NSW Liberals may lose two of their most outspoken gay and lesbian rights critics following a push by the party’s ‘conservative-progressive’ faction to stop David Clarke MLC from recontesting ... Read more
Wed February 17th, 2010 - 6 Comments
Hickey to challenge Plibersek
The Greens are hoping to mobilise voter dissatisfaction over the Government’s policy on same-sex marriage at the next federal election in their campaign for the seat of Sydney. Local gay man ... Read more
Wed February 17th, 2010 - 2 Comments
Vancouver gets gay village
For the first time at an Olympic Games, the Olympic villages for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics will contain not just one, but two gay and lesbian pavilions. The Vancouver games ... Read more
Tue February 16th, 2010 - 5 Comments
Outdoor Rec Party goes pro-gay
The NSW Outdoor Recreation Party is to change its tune on gay and lesbian issues after merging with the pro-same-sex marriage Liberal Democratic Party. The parties merged to ensure representation on ... Read more
Wed February 10th, 2010 - 2 Comments
Tea-bagging with John Waters
Ahead of performances in Melbourne and Sydney, cult cinema director John Waters talked to Sydney Star Observer about America under President Barack Obama, tea-bagging, liberal censorship and witnessing some of ... Read more
Tue February 9th, 2010 - No Comments
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 - 1 Comment
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 - 2 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 - 14 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
Current Issue
Tony, please think before speaking
You have to feel sorry for Tony Abbott. He has been criticised for speaking without thinking, in his comments on women’s virginity, and on homosexuality “challenging orthodox notions of the right order of things”. The ... Read more
Talk to us, Tony
Manly Liberal MP Mike Baird has “strongly recommended” Opposition leader Tony Abbott break his ... Read more
Talk to us, Tony
Manly Liberal MP Mike Baird has “strongly recommended” Opposition leader Tony Abbott break his ... Read more
Gabbing with Glambert
Appropriately for someone whose goth-glam appearance is the subject of much tabloid fodder, out-and-proud ... Read more
Court rules in favour of trans teen
Transgender rights advocates have welcomed a Family Court decision to allow a trans teenager ... Read more
Police apologise to Blacktown victims
Police will do by better by gay and lesbian victims of crime, NSW’s top ... Read more