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Pride Week
Pride Week is a time for our community to come together to celebrate and reflect. We do have a lot to celebrate: de facto recognition at a state level in 1999; ... Read more
Tue June 23rd, 2009 - 1 Comment
Civil marriage gaining wider currency
Over the past few weeks, an increasing number of US politicians and politicos have spoken out in support of same-sex marriage — not civil unions, but marriage. Some of these ... Read more
Wed June 17th, 2009 - 1 Comment
Civil marriage
Later this year, the GLRL will launch a campaign for formal relationship recognition. Since 2006, when the GLRL conducted community consultations around NSW, the community told us two things. ... Read more
Tue June 9th, 2009 - 1 Comment
This is Oz
Many of you by now will have seen ACON’s new online initiative called ‘This Is Oz’. This fantastic awareness-raising campaign humanises the gay and lesbian community, and makes the phrase ... Read more
Tue June 2nd, 2009 - 1 Comment
Standing in reform’s way
On Tuesday, the Sydney Morning Herald reported Premier Nathan Rees had broached a deal with the Reverend Fred Nile to put gay adoption on the backburner in order to secure ... Read more
Tue May 26th, 2009 - No Comments
Nyet gays!
In recent columns, I have compared Australia’s progress on gay and lesbian equality to the United States, New Zealand, the Netherlands, and South Africa. In doing so, I have been unfair ... Read more
Tue May 19th, 2009 - 2 Comments
Stop stalling on adoption
Earlier this year, the GLRL made a submission to, and gave oral evidence at, the NSW Adoption Inquiry. The GLRL has been lobbying for many years for adoption laws ... Read more
Tue May 12th, 2009 - 2 Comments
What can you do?
It is a sad reality that in 2009, 40 years since the historic Stonewall riots in New York City, homophobia remains alive and well. On the streets, in our schools ... Read more
Tue May 5th, 2009 - 2 Comments
‘Opposite’ rights
“We live in a land that you can choose same-sex marriage or opposite marriage, and you know what, in my country and in my family, I think that I believe ... Read more
Tue April 28th, 2009 - No Comments
Calling all conservatives
In a speech to the Log Cabin Republicans last week, Steve Schmidt, Senator John McCain’s former campaign manager, advocated his support for gay marriage. This is in direct contrast ... Read more
Tue April 21st, 2009 - 3 Comments
Separate and unequal
Vermont – marriage; Iowa – marriage; Australia – state-based relationship registers. The above are three recent developments in same-sex relationship reform around the world. Vermont has now joined ... Read more
Wed April 15th, 2009 - 3 Comments
Gun-slingin’ equality
Many of you would have heard by now that Iowa, yes Iowa, has become the third state in America, after Connecticut and Massachusetts, to legalise gay marriage. Last week, the Iowa ... Read more
Wed April 8th, 2009 - 12 Comments
Beyond gay marriage
A few weeks ago, I attended a lecture given by visiting American legal academic Nancy Polikoff. In her talk, called ‘Beyond Gay Marriage’, she lambasted the gay and lesbian ... Read more
Tue March 31st, 2009 - 1 Comment
The audacity of courage
On British Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s recent visit to Washington, he presented President Obama with a first edition, seven volume biography of Winston Churchill and a pen holder carved from ... Read more
Wed March 25th, 2009 - No Comments
An economic rescue plan
This year is an exciting one for my family and me. Last December, on a ski-slope, my little sister’s boyfriend got down on one knee and asked her to marry ... Read more
Wed March 18th, 2009 - 4 Comments
Little by Little
As the trash is swept up on Oxford St following last weekend’s revelry, we celebrate our community. We celebrate those who marched,those who danced, and the friends and family of gay ... Read more
Wed March 11th, 2009 - 6 Comments
From ‘Boom Bye-Bye’ to equality
As we celebrate this year’s Mardi Gras, we celebrate our community, we celebrate who we love, and we celebrate the progress made in gay rights over the past three decades. ... Read more
Wed March 4th, 2009 - 1 Comment
Glamour and rights
It seems not one Academy Awards passes without a winner speaking their mind — and so they should. Although the Oscars provide a fantastic opportunity for glitz, glamour and dreaming, it ... Read more
Wed February 25th, 2009 - No Comments
Social Security
Recently I spoke at a forum on social security, jointly hosted by the GLRL, ACON, the Welfare Rights Lobby, Positive Life, People with Disabilities NSW, and AFAO. As a result of ... Read more
Wed February 18th, 2009 - 3 Comments
The Lobby needs you
In three weeks’ time, the Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby will march down Oxford St to celebrate past achievements, but most importantly to show the wider Australian community what remains ... Read more
Wed February 11th, 2009 - No Comments
Lesbian in charge
Last week saw the appointment of the world’s first openly gay prime minister. On Monday, the Social Democratic Alliance Party in Iceland chose Johanna Sigurdardottir, the former social affairs minister, ... Read more
Wed February 4th, 2009 - 1 Comment
It’s time
Just before the federal election in 2007, a Galaxy poll found that 71 percent of Australians supported same-sex equality, and 54 percent specifically supported same-sex marriage. A more recent ... Read more
Wed January 28th, 2009 - No Comments
Changes to social security
Since the start of the 58’08 campaign last year the GLRL realised that although the introduction of equality at a federal level was going to accord new rights to tens ... Read more
Wed January 21st, 2009 - 1 Comment
A team of rivals
2008 was a landmark year for gay and lesbian rights. We saw lesbian co-mothers recognised as legal parents for the first time in NSW and we saw the passing ... Read more
Wed January 14th, 2009 - 2 Comments
Celebrate our gains
2008 has been nothing short of extraordinary for the advancement of same-sex equality and a big year for the GLRL. We’ve lobbied, rallied, made speeches, written submissions and choreographed a ... Read more
Wed December 17th, 2008 - 9 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
Hope for lock-out rethink
Oxford St publicans have called on the newly-formed Sydney Liquor Task Force to review the 2am lock-out system and come up with more effective measures for handling alcohol-related violence. The state Government, with the City ... Read more
Oxford now with receiver
Oxford Hotel management insists it will be business as usual despite the pub’s holding ... Read more
Same-sex marriage push
The Greens have made good on a promise to introduce a private member’s bill ... Read more
ACON’s three-year vision
ACON CEO Stevie Clayton has declared a drop in HIV rates as a key ... Read more
Back on the trax
DJ Rob will be back at Bears Den Night Flinders Hotel on Friday, July ... Read more
They could get away with murder
With a name like KillaQueenz, one would naturally assume Kween G and Belizean Bombshell ... Read more