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Acceptance commemorate Stonewall
For only the second time, Acceptance held a multi-faith service last Wednesday, June 24 as part of the celebrations for Pride Week. Adding a different flavour to the two week Pride ... Read more
Thu July 2nd, 2009 - No Comments
Back on the trax
DJ Rob will be back at Bears Den Night Flinders Hotel on Friday, July 3 pumping out his own brand of tunes. The event will start at 9.30pm with DJ ... Read more
Tue June 30th, 2009 - 3 Comments
Host a table for charity
Last year Table4Ten (T4T) raised $100,000 for the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia and this year the organisers hope to double that figure. The money raised was used to help set ... Read more
Tue June 30th, 2009 - No Comments
New growth for live memorial
It’s time to get the shovel and watering can out for the Sydney Park AIDS (SPAIDS) Memorial Grove tree-planting day. This year the planting coincides with National Tree Day on ... Read more
Tue June 30th, 2009 - 2 Comments
Queer Screen mentors filmmmakers
Georgia Mason-Cox GLBT filmmakers will have a chance to make their mark on the industry thanks to Queer Screen’s new mentorship program. The program gives selected participants the opportunity to work with ... Read more
Tue June 30th, 2009 - No Comments
Historic reforms for same-sex couples
BY BEN KEATS This month will see a new era of equality before the law for Australia’s LGBT community. For the first time in Australian history, the federal Government has ... Read more
Tue June 30th, 2009 - 2 Comments
Vote for the AIDS Trust
International swimsuit model Emily Scott will appear in the new season of Dancing with the Stars. The former gymnast, named ‘Australia’s Sexiest Woman’ by FHM magazine, has chosen the AIDS ... Read more
Tue June 30th, 2009 - No Comments
New HIV drug available on PBS
A new drug available on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme from July 1 offers new options to people living with HIV. Intelence is the first non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI) to ... Read more
Tue June 30th, 2009 - No Comments
Couples wanted for wedding
Community Action Against Homophobia is looking for couples to take part in its mass illegal same-sex wedding on August 1. To be staged as part of Sydney’s National Day of Action ... Read more
Tue June 30th, 2009 - No Comments
Sweaty blokey fun
Mongrel, a night inspired by fotballer Matthew Johns and his mates, will bring a new gay twist to the social scene. Starting this Saturday 4 July, the monthly club night ... Read more
Tue June 30th, 2009 - No Comments
Sydney Bear takes Australasian title
He’s cute, he’s cuddly, he’s Mr Australasian Bear — and for the first time he’s a Sydneysider. Jason Lee — the Harbour City Bear’s first official representative to take part in ... Read more
Tue June 23rd, 2009 - 7 Comments
Marr’s lessons from the Stonewall legends
Author and journalist David Marr will shatter some of the myths surrounding the Stonewall Riots when he delivers the keynote address at the Aurora Dinner this Saturday. The gala charity fundraiser ... Read more
Tue June 23rd, 2009 - 1 Comment
New events head for Mardi Gras
The producer of Sydney’s New Year’s Eve spectaculars and executive producer of the 2002 Sydney Gay Games, Katrina Márton has been appointed head of events for New Mardi Gras. Having worked ... Read more
Tue June 23rd, 2009 - No Comments
Herpes patients asked for help
Those living with Australia’s second most common sexually-transmitted infection are being urged to share their experiences in an online survey. The Australian Herpes Management Forum (AHMF) is calling for people ... Read more
Tue June 23rd, 2009 - No Comments
Fatty strikes a pose against homophobia
ACON have welcomed Paul ‘Fatty’ Vautin’s offer to appear in their online anti-homophobia campaign This Is Oz. Vautin, host of Channel Nine’s The Footy Show, agreed to appear on the site ... Read more
Tue June 23rd, 2009 - 7 Comments
Crime down, says Adney
Crime and homophobic violence are on the decrease, Surry Hills Superintendent Donna Adney has reported. Speaking at the City of Sydney’s Gay and Lesbian Community Forum last Wednesday, Adney reported a ... Read more
Tue June 23rd, 2009 - 2 Comments
A new home in the Hunter
After twelve months of major renovations to the ACON facility in Newcastle and a further few months settling in, the transformation of the building into a GLBT community centre for ... Read more
Tue June 23rd, 2009 - No Comments
Making gay life in Iceland richer
In January this year the president of Iceland, Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, asked the Social Democrat Alliance to form Government with the Left-Green Movement, thereby ending 18 years of dominance by ... Read more
Tue June 23rd, 2009 - 1 Comment
Surrogacy and gay dads
When it comes to having kids, gay and lesbian couples face a few obvious logistical problems over and above the sheer drama of bringing them up. We caught up with ... Read more
Sun June 21st, 2009 - 7 Comments
NMG appoints head of events
New Mardi Gras (NMG) has appointed Katrina Márton as the organisation’s Head of Events. The full time role gives Márton oversight of the overall planning, management and delivery of all NMG’s ... Read more
Fri June 19th, 2009 - 3 Comments
Picnic this Saturday
The NSW Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby’s equality picnic will be held this Saturday, June 20. The picnic was originally planned for Mother’s Day, but was postponed due to poor weather. Open ... Read more
Thu June 18th, 2009 - No Comments
Pride in Tel Aviv
Jin Peh from the iPride group waves the Australian flag proudly at Tel Aviv’s gay parade last weekend. Photo: Ed Walsh Read more
Thu June 18th, 2009 - No Comments
Free cycling confidence courses
The City of Sydney is offering free cycling courses for members of the public who want to learn responsible, safer riding, and build confidence and traffic skills to cycle in ... Read more
Wed June 17th, 2009 - 1 Comment
Pride Week to liberate and celebrate
Less than a year after the closure of Sydney’s Pride Centre, Pride Week has made an astounding comeback with a new festival packed with over 50 events planned to liberate, ... Read more
Tue June 16th, 2009 - 1 Comment
Mass wedding planned
Attendees at this year’s Labor Party conference will see a potent image of gay rights, as Community Action Against Homophobia attempts to stage the world’s largest gay wedding ceremony. Organisers of ... Read more
Tue June 16th, 2009 - 6 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
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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
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