“Sometimes it’s subtle, like when relatives who once rarely referred to my partner now ask me how he is. Sometimes it’s more direct, like when a plumber says ‘take a few days to discuss it with the hubby’.”
“Being at the table helps ensure we are not on the menu.”
“My experience living with HIV and working in the sector has shown me what we’re up against — a monolithic pharmaceutical industry that thrives on us swallowing pills for the rest of our lives.”
We need a comprehensive review of the extent and harms of faith-based discrimination against LGBTI people in 2019.
“I expect many individuals and organisations will pull out of the Auckland Pride Parade and I don’t blame them.”
“Australians love Magda and Magda loves Australia, and despite last year being a tough year for her, Magda shared her strength in a way that inspired others to do the same.”
“Many of those disappointments were particularly poignant, because they were engineered by my brother Tony Abbott.”
“While the Yes campaign’s success was wonderful, necessary compromises in parliament left the law half fixed.”
Alex remembers getting a call from Bill Shorten saying, ‘This policy is bullshit, but if we can’t defeat it in the High Court, we will fight hard to win it’.
“It’s in remembering the stories of those that we have lost to the hands of this struggle that we find our strength.”
