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Go west
These days you buy a ribbon for many worthy causes. Orange = hunger, pink = breast cancer, yellow = ... Read more
Wed November 19th, 2008 - No Comments
Beats the hell out of me
CAAH’s vigil over the weekend defending beat users from police patrols couldn’t have had stranger timing, coming less than two ... Read more
Wed November 19th, 2008 - No Comments
Heroes and Villains
Last week, the federal Senate debated the Same-Sex Relationships (Equal Treatment in Commonwealth Laws – General Law Reform) Bill 2008, ... Read more
Wed November 19th, 2008 - No Comments
Same-sex damily law changes explained
What are these changes all about? The amendments are part of a raft of federal and state government reforms aimed ... Read more
Wed November 19th, 2008 - No Comments
How can we be lovers…we’re only friends
The debate continues about elderly gay couples who will lose financially once their relationship is recognised. When a homosexual union ... Read more
Wed November 19th, 2008 - 2 Comments
Toys
It’s a Saturday night. There’s a warm breeze circling through the darkened lounge room. There’s a faint hint of ... Read more
Wed November 19th, 2008 - 2 Comments
Southern comfort
Monday 24 November will be a great day to get up, rub your eyes, and head down to ACON in ... Read more
Wed November 12th, 2008 - No Comments
Political problems need political solutions
As the disappointing news filtered through last Thursday that a majority of Californians had endorsed Proposition 8 (the amendment to ... Read more
Wed November 12th, 2008 - No Comments
They tried to make me Go To Rio
Earlier this year we had World Youth Day. Coming up soon is something more practical and beneficial: World AIDS Day. ... Read more
Wed November 12th, 2008 - No Comments
Stop…Obama time
Not only the first black president of the United States of America, last Tuesday Barack Obama also became its first ... Read more
Wed November 12th, 2008 - 6 Comments
All in the family
Like many people I know, I’m from a mixed family, bits and pieces from everywhere, with lots of kids running ... Read more
Wed November 12th, 2008 - 1 Comment
Drug testing gone mad
Last week an extremely interesting article ran in the American newspaper USA Today. It dealt with the use of unreliable ... Read more
Wed November 12th, 2008 - No Comments
Making every minute count
By Steve Ostrow “Old age sucks. Things either dry up or start to leak.” So an old doctor friend of ... Read more
Wed November 12th, 2008 - No Comments
Australian love letters
Following the passage of the Family Law Amendment Bill in the Federal Parliament on Monday, the GLRL sent a collation ... Read more
Wed November 12th, 2008 - No Comments
McNuggets vs Midnight Shift
Living within dancing distance of the Strip has often proved a difficult lure to escape. Morning arrives and it's perfectly ... Read more
Wed November 12th, 2008 - 9 Comments
21 Reasons to be outraged
Produced by new anti-gay coalition Gender Matters, 21 Reasons Why Gender Matters is a 24 page rant about why gay ... Read more
Wed November 5th, 2008 - 3 Comments
A desperate PR exercise
The lockout trial announced by the Surry Hills Police Local Area Command last week and due to start on 1 ... Read more
Wed November 5th, 2008 - 2 Comments
NEW DRINKING LAWS
Last week it was announced that Oxford St and Taylor Square licensed venues have agreed to a trial patron lockout ... Read more
Wed November 5th, 2008 - 1 Comment
WORLD AIDS DAY
1 December 2008 marks the 20th anniversary of World AIDS Day. Volunteer to sell ribbons, or come along to the many events that will be held to remember whose have died, and raise money to support those living with HIV/AIDS.
www.worldaidsdaynsw.org.auACCEPTANCE MASS
A World Aids Day remembrance mass for gay Catholics and their friends and families will be held on Friday 28 November, 8pm at St Canice's Catholic Church in Kings Cross.
www.gaycatholic.com.auGAMMA
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.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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Lockout winners ask for more
Two Oxford St venues that escaped the Rees Government’s 2am lock-out are planning huge expansions into adjacent properties with late-trading hours. The Colombian Hotel and the former DCM/UN nightclub submitted plans to the City of ... Read more
Super equality backdated
The Coalition gained support from the minor parties to backdate the same-sex superannuation equality ... Read more
Push for international relationship recognition
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Aurora ready to hand out money
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Red ribbon season begins
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Heaven homeless again
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