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Author » Wally Salinger
Aging disgracefully
This week’s medal — the bronze at least — goes to a couple of tenacious guys I know. What I love about these two is that they are nothing alike ... Read more
Tue June 30th, 2009 - No Comments
Ahead of the rest
Watching a sprint finish has you on the edge of your seat. You are not sure which member of the pack will lunge ahead in the final stride to snatch ... Read more
Tue June 16th, 2009 - No Comments
Sport may be divided into two broad categories; individual or team sports. The division comes from personal characteristics which inform the choices we make, venues, affordability, upbringing and familial or ... Read more
Tue June 9th, 2009 - No Comments
Culture shock
Travel is the best example of the internal dissonance we face when taken out of our comfort zone. For some, doing a bit of exercise would be just as disturbing. ... Read more
Mon May 25th, 2009 - No Comments
The winter blues
Exercise is a strange phenomenon. It is all wrong. Aerobic activity does things that causes our physical and mental being stress. How hideous! Everything else we do in life is about ... Read more
Tue April 28th, 2009 - No Comments
A make or break moment in gay sport
The heart beats a littler faster, palms sweat. Watch only the pitcher’s arm. Wait. Balanced, yet ready to swing and sprint to first base. The picture is the moment, here ... Read more
Tue April 14th, 2009 - No Comments
The heart of the matter
An Asian member of one of Team Sydney’s sports clubs wrote of the frustration and despair faced by different cultures over coming out in a society that prides itself on ... Read more
Fri April 3rd, 2009 - 1 Comment
The old and the beautiful
It is impossible not to fall in love with gay Sydney. The west drags out costumes at the local leagues club; parents and families plan their tri-annual pilgrimage eastwards (NYE fireworks, ... Read more
Wed March 11th, 2009 - No Comments
Kickstart an old habit
Growing up queer or straight often mirror each other. The young in our community simply tackle philosophical, social and sexual issues much earlier than many in the straight community. Fifteen-year-old ... Read more
Wed January 21st, 2009 - 1 Comment
The Getting of wisdom
The longevity of a gay sports club is an oxymoron. Where do we locate future gay and lesbian sports people? In the year Team Sydney celebrates 25 years, it may ... Read more
Wed December 10th, 2008 - 1 Comment
5 stars in a room
Operating a sporting club or team on the budget a glamorous boy or girl would use to prepare for a big night out sometimes means “up close and personal” takes ... Read more
Wed November 26th, 2008 - No Comments
Risque management
The playing field, court, floor or fluid is a dangerous thing. Fields get rough, hard and very, very dirty. Floors become slippery, hard to land on and are generally encumbered ... Read more
Wed November 12th, 2008 - No Comments
Girls just wanna have fun
It was really good to see Cindy Lauper in town last week. In a classic New York drawl she declared, “the record company executives told me Girls Just Wanna Have ... Read more
Wed October 1st, 2008 - No Comments
Good sports
A perfect result requires ingredients of the highest quality. French pastry is judged by the butter that is used in its making, desserts are distinguished by the quality and freshness ... Read more
Wed September 17th, 2008 - No Comments
Good sports
A gay sporting event rolls by. Not that you would necessarily know: the stadium, field, aquatic venue, park, hall, gym or playing arena looks exactly the same as normally. Umpires and ... Read more
Wed September 3rd, 2008 - No Comments
Dreams or reality
It’s hard not to swell with patriotic nationalism at times of sporting events like the Olympics. Sport is splashed across all forms of media, impossible to avoid – if you ... Read more
Wed August 20th, 2008 - No Comments
The coach in all of us
Stand on the sideline at the local park or play a game of sport, then be honest. At some point during the game you wondered what a player was thinking, ... Read more
Wed August 6th, 2008 - No Comments
Big fat gold medal
The Australian public has overtaken our biggest rivals, the USA, as the fattest nation on Earth. It is truly horrifying that we are now a nation beset with inactivity, poor ... Read more
Wed July 9th, 2008 - No Comments
Hands on
As we age, our hands bear a record of the life we have lived and are living. My father’s hands were always a mess of minor injuries, bruised nails and ... Read more
Thu June 26th, 2008 - No Comments
Join the rush
Sporting events are a travel destination in themselves. Cities fight for the right to host the Olympic Games, soccer world championships, World Masters Games, World Cup Rugby, and World Championship ... Read more
Mon June 16th, 2008 - No Comments
Beat the rush
Sporting events are a travel destination in themselves. Cities fight for the right to host the Olympic Games, soccer world championships, World Masters Games, World Cup Rugby, and World Championship ... Read more
Sun April 20th, 2008 - No Comments
Good sports
Childhood influences mould our beings for life. Positive experiences in sport mould us and the society in which we live. The reverse applies when young people’s formative years are traumatic, ... Read more
Sun April 20th, 2008 - No Comments
Conned – no time for sport
Extra hours at work are seriously disrupting your social life. You have to spend time with friends and family of course. Your routines and habits are affected, as the daylight ... Read more
Sun April 20th, 2008 - No Comments
The sporting tightrope
A gentle, loving, social soul suddenly becomes a raging fireball of aggression. A soft-spoken, shy corporate girl scatters all in her path to the ball or home plate. A lean ... Read more
Sun April 20th, 2008 - No Comments
Bad behaviour in sport
It is truly amazing that sportspeople are seen to be drunken louts who stagger between games, binges, antisocial behaviour and championship performances on a seasonal basis. Were you to watch a ... Read more
Sun April 20th, 2008 - No 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