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    Police call for tougher hate crime sentencing

    Victoria Police have announced they will push for tougher sentencing on hate crimes, including those motivated by gender and sexuality, following the release of new figures on prejudice-motivated crime in the state. Last year Victoria Police recorded...

    • Posted 13 hours ago
  • Benjamin-riley
    Photos of the gays we saw on holiday

    When my boyfriend or I have had a particularly stressful week, come Saturday we treat ourselves to breakfast at the same cafe we’ve been going to since our relationship began. Every time, we order exactly the same...

    • Posted 13 days ago
  • Benjamin-riley
    Straighties in the waiting room

    A few nights ago I was at the pub with some friends when the discussion turned to our GPs. A couple of years back I started going to a mostly-queer clinic here in Melbourne, and it changed...

    • Posted 20 days ago
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    Don Draper does Daenerys

    Costume dramas turn me on. I can’t help myself. Every year, some new genre show pops up on television and I find my sexual fantasies turning to a different period in history. Downton Abbey resulted in months...

    • Posted 29 days ago
  • Benjamin-riley
    Talkin’ (dirty) ‘bout my generation

    A friend asked me recently whether gay men of my generation are less inclined towards anonymous sex. As a gay man around 15 years older than me, his observation followed a complaint — going to saunas. There...

    • Posted 34 days ago
  • Benjamin-riley
    The internet is covered in my smut

    I get pretty nervous before job interviews. Unfortunately, productive preparatory tasks, such as figuring out the answers to stupid questions like, ‘what’s your greatest weakness’ (answer: my dislike of most people), are often pushed aside so I...

    • Posted 42 days ago
  • Benjamin-riley
    Public displays of heterosexuality

    I’ve begun to find large groups of heterosexual men in public places disgusting. It’s something about the way they dominate a space, how they fill it up with often homoerotic displays of extreme masculinity that feels to...

    • Posted 48 days ago
  • Kelly
    The Liberal equality hypocrisy

    I think it’s a good thing federal Liberal MP Kelly O’Dwyer has come out in support of marriage equality. I’m also down with Liberal candidate Sean O’Connor saying something to the same effect, even if it doesn’t...

    • Posted 57 days ago
  • new pope funny
    Hola, Señor Papa

    In the days since the new Pope was elected, a fairly clear picture has emerged of the kind of guy Argentinian Cardinal Bergolio will be: he rides on buses, he’s pretty old, and he’s predictably conservative. So...

    • Posted 63 days ago
  • ChillOut gen 420x470
    Boys, girls and taking the piss

    Last weekend my boyfriend and I packed up his car and drove to Daylesford for ChillOut; four days of drinking, camping and browsing the kind of antique stores gays retire to the country to run. We camped...

    • Posted 70 days ago
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