Posts in category Opinion

“The media conglomerates will survive without you. Maybe not forever, but they have the resources to adapt … Without you, however, we will not survive.”

Hannah Conda is one of Sydney’s drag identities. She charts her relationship with the Star Observer

David Crawford charts his relationship and the Star Observer’s relationship with the HIV epidemic I arrived in Sydney in 1982. Oxford Street was awash with …

“There were genuinely no signs of Folau’s homophobia at the time. But perhaps we were all naïve.”

“The struggle for even the simplest acceptance of transgender people, families and children is at a tipping point. Our youth attempted suicide rate is at twenty times the national average and that simply can’t continue.”

I picked up my first copy of the Star Observer from the old Fish Records on King St in Newtown when I was 17. I’d …

Ani Lamont was often the only female journalist in the Star Observer’s news room for much of her time at the paper. She reflects on …

“We have to face the stark reality that the movement to weaken Australia’s LGBTI legal rights under cover of religious freedom is not going away.”

“I was reminded once again that no matter how resilient you may have become after years of dealing with this kind of sh*t, that you can be caught off guard in a moment of vulnerability.”

“In the four years that I’ve worked for the publication, I know that our unique and diverse stories have touched the lives of many.”