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Politics rules
I was listening to the clear, reasonable voice of our Prime Minister on the radio last week. He was talking about the problem of seafaring asylum seekers, in particular the ongoing ... Read more
Tue November 10th, 2009 - 4 Comments
Gays save the world
Dinner party conversations are a good indication of what’s uppermost in people’s minds. Especially if the alcohol keeps flowing. First you have to get through relationship speculation, Liza’s concerts, and outrage ... Read more
Tue November 3rd, 2009 - 1 Comment
An age-old story
I’ve been thinking about age lately. It’s a subject gay men are aware of from the word go, concerned as we are with our skin and fitness, and the importance ... Read more
Tue October 27th, 2009 - No Comments
Burden of proof
Being gay ought to be getting easier but it’s getting harder - so to speak. Look at last week’s cover story about the Bangladeshi couple who claim to be gay and ... Read more
Tue October 20th, 2009 - 1 Comment
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Christie spears Britney
It’s not so long ago that gay men had a thing for tragic divas. We all know how the death of Judy Garland in ’69 sparked the Stonewall riots. With ... Read more
Tue October 13th, 2009 - No Comments
On bisexuality
A month ago I got into an online debate over one of my columns. I wrote about teenagers’ fluid sexuality and suggested that in their case “bi is the new ... Read more
Tue October 6th, 2009 - 8 Comments
Selling the safe-sex message
A few weeks back I mentioned the old Grim Reaper AIDS campaign. It was scary, offensive and inflammatory: absolutely spot-on for its time. Some of the people it horrified were parliamentarians ... Read more
Tue September 29th, 2009 - 11 Comments
Home is where the dance floor is
Just by chance the other day I got a full tour of the interior of the Imperial. Trevor Ashley (Cleo) and Graeme Browning (Mitzi) were there, and I was invited ... Read more
Tue September 22nd, 2009 - No Comments
Pass the lube, I’m on Facebook
In the Facebook demographic, I sit towards the older end. It’s supposed to be a Gen Y thing. A 19-year-old invented it. (You’d never guess!) He was at Harvard, and ... Read more
Tue September 15th, 2009 - 6 Comments
Youth is wasted
I was interested to read in SSO recently a piece headed ‘Labels of no interest to youth’. A sexual health survey from La Trobe University surveyed students in years 10, ... Read more
Tue September 8th, 2009 - 9 Comments
Stop the presses! We made the paper!
Whacko! We got into the paper! A piece in last week’s SSO was quoted in The Daily Telegraph, with our niche-targeted quality journal named as the source. Our work has ... Read more
Tue September 1st, 2009 - 2 Comments
Cum to the DIVAs
Phoenix-like, the DIVAs rise from the ashes of bankruptcy. Replacing the venerated Drag Industry Variety Awards, now a smouldering memory, comes a new company called Avid Events Ltd. That means ... Read more
Tue August 25th, 2009 - 3 Comments
Life upon a reflection
In funeral services there is a segment called Reflection. The mourners reflect on their relationship with the departed, their own mortality, tomorrow's -˜to do' list, or whatever occurs to them. ... Read more
Tue August 18th, 2009 - No Comments
The PM is out
Now the dust has settled after the ALP National Conference, what have we got? A sub-optimal outcome, as they say at NMG board meetings. Same-sex marriage has its advocates in both ... Read more
Tue August 11th, 2009 - 1 Comment
Coleman dances his last dance
On Monday July 27, acclaimed choreographer Ross Coleman watched the 2009 Helpmann Awards, went to bed, and died in his sleep. Ross was 60. He had been feeling unwell over ... Read more
Tue August 4th, 2009 - 1 Comment
Money can’t buy me
OK, I suppose I can tell you -” I won half of that $80 million Lotto. Not in a syndicate, but all by myself. When it happened, I was in shock. ... Read more
Tue August 4th, 2009 - No Comments
Something to sink your gay teeth into
True Blood is an HBO series, recently released on Australian/Croatian/Mongolian Region 4 DVDs. It's about vampires in redneck Louisiana, set in the present day, and there's a definite link between bloodsucking ... Read more
Tue July 28th, 2009 - 4 Comments
Hitching to get married
On August 1 my partner and I will be milling, loitering and woolgathering for same-sex marriage. It's not that we wish to get married; at least I don't think so. ... Read more
Tue July 21st, 2009 - 7 Comments
God hates bands
A website has come to my attention. American, of course, it's lovegodsway which means -˜Love God's way', not praise the Lord and move from side to side. It's part of ... Read more
Tue July 14th, 2009 - 3 Comments
Doing the anniversary waltz
Sydney Star Observer's masthead used to say: Australia's Leading Gay and Lesbian Newspaper since 1979. I guess they changed it to avoid the suggestion that there was a different leading ... Read more
Tue July 7th, 2009 - 1 Comment
And all that jazz
OK, back to basics. If you're reading the Star, statistically you're an unmarried male with a penchant for others like you. Now we've established your credentials, let's talk about men. I ... Read more
Tue June 30th, 2009 - No Comments
The importance of having a little Pride
Gayguy 1: Pride? I'm gay, but that is only a part of who I am. It's nothing to be specially proud of, it's just me. Gayguy 2: Pride's so last century. ... Read more
Tue June 23rd, 2009 - 2 Comments
The show must go on
Monday I have a spare half hour, so I work out the gay:straight:unknown ratio of artists at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival. It's 21:23:23. Wow, cabaret festivals are just like real life. Tuesday One ... Read more
Tue June 16th, 2009 - No Comments
Adelaide diary 1
Thursday I arrive in the city that always sleeps to take part in the campest Adelaide Cabaret Festival ever. If the Mardi Gras Festival had this line-up, we'd say: Isn't it ... Read more
Tue June 9th, 2009 - 5 Comments
Schools of thought
School has been on my mind lately, due to a couple of stories in the Herald last week. Julia Gillard announced that the results of national literacy and numeracy tests would ... Read more
Tue June 2nd, 2009 - 1 Comment
Current Issue
PFLAG outrage: Shame on you, Tony Abbott
Parents, friends and relatives of gay and lesbian people are being encouraged to register their disgust with Tony Abbott’s office over comments made on 60 Minutes that he and most Australians feel “threatened” by ... Read more
We were wrong
Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young says a deal was struck to to force a vote ... Read more
Change to BGF service structure
Bobby Goldsmith Foundation (BGF) clients will be asked to take more responsibility for their ... Read more
We’re here, we’re queer, we’re shovel-ready!
The shriek of whistles pierces the air, dykes tease the crowd with their purring ... Read more
HIV+ migrant inquiry
Some of the nation’s peak AIDS bodies have used an inquiry into migration by ... Read more
Let’s go pollie shopping
As we get into election season, I’m shopping for pollies. Here’s what I want ... Read more