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Convicts on top again
The Sydney Convicts rugby club entered a team into the Eastern Suburbs Touch Rugby competition during preseason to help stay in form and prepare for the Bingham Cup in June. But ... Read more
Tue March 16th, 2010 - No Comments
Swingers on the green
The Gay and Lesbian Golf Swingers holds regular social rounds and is always looking for people wanting to join. If you would like to participate one Sunday each month at ... Read more
Tue March 16th, 2010 - No Comments
Staying fit and social
I was born in 1946 and grew up in the Riverina. My main ongoing sports were tennis and golf (which I was quite good at). I excelled in running and ... Read more
Tue March 16th, 2010 - No Comments
Bats ready to fly
The Flying Bats’ 2010 soccer season will start in April. The all-girl club has five teams participating in the North West Sydney Women’s Football Association. “What I love most about the ... Read more
Tue March 16th, 2010 - No Comments
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Celebrating GLBT sport
Team Sydney has declared the 2010 Mardi Gras Sports Festival and Fair Day Sports Village a success. The Sports Festival featured 18 events highlighting the skills, diversity and team spirit of ... Read more
Tue March 9th, 2010 - No Comments
Gross. Really, really gross
I have a problem. I work in the fitness industry. I have fat staff who are to be role models to young people in schools and the community, demonstrating how ... Read more
Tue March 9th, 2010 - 1 Comment
Bowling for charity
As part of last month’s Mardi Gras Sports Festival, Unbiased Bowling held its annual Lawn Bowls Barefoot Social Day to raise money for charity. Over 115 people attended the event, including ... Read more
Tue March 9th, 2010 - No Comments
Get your butt into gear
So New Year has come and gone and those resolutions made at midnight seem so far away. You’re back at work and it’s consuming all your energy. The personal trainer ... Read more
Tue March 9th, 2010 - No Comments
Fighting sports homophobia
French Canadian anti-prejudice organisation Fondation Émergence last week launched its annual global campaign to fight homophobia in sport. The Speaking About Silence campaign will reach its highpoint on the International ... Read more
Tue March 2nd, 2010 - No Comments
Gay fighters prepare for Cologne
The Gay and Lesbian Martial Arts Club (GLMA) will send a team of six to compete in the Cologne Gay Games this August. GLMA and Same-Sex Salsa founder Penny Gulliver said ... Read more
Tue March 2nd, 2010 - No Comments
Temporary meditiation space found
Last month’s torrential rain damaged the roof of Club Swans, so the Sydney Gay Meditation Group is meeting at Meditation Space until the venue is repaired. The group meets every ... Read more
Tue March 2nd, 2010 - No Comments
More sailing this weekend
The Australian Sailing and Cruising Club’s (ASCC) Mardi Gras Regatta attracted an abundance of interstate competitors at the weekend. Sydney’s Scott Davis and his crew won the spinnaker division series and ... Read more
Tue February 23rd, 2010 - No Comments
Freezone spikes the opposition
Fourteen teams took to the courts at the Olympic Park’s Indoor Sports Centre to compete in the Freezone Volleyball Mardi Gras Tournament at the weekend. Team Big W won A Division, ... Read more
Tue February 23rd, 2010 - No Comments
Open training for Stingers
The Sydney Stingers Water Polo Club will hold an open training session at the Ryde Aquatic Centre this Saturday, February 27. Starting at 9.45am, the event will introduce potential members ... Read more
Tue February 23rd, 2010 - No Comments
A smashing success
Last weekend, more than 120 players flocked to Tennis Sydney’s Mardi Gras Championships to celebrate its 21st year. Held over three days at the Illawarra Tennis Centre, the tournament held 145 ... Read more
Tue February 23rd, 2010 - 2 Comments
Gay Games running ahead
The Winter Olympics is not the only world sporting event this year; just as Vancouver extinguishes its flame, the eighth quadrennial Gay Games, in Cologne, Germany, is poised to set ... Read more
Tue February 23rd, 2010 - No Comments
Hockey players think pink
The Bentstix Hockey Club members had their sticks swinging at the annual Pink Hockey Championships at the weekend. Held at the St George Hockey Centre, three teams battled it out in ... Read more
Tue February 23rd, 2010 - No Comments
Weir dismisses ‘Aussie gentlemen’
While the Sydney Star Observer awaits official comment from Channel 9, US figure skating champion Johnny Weir has dismissed comments made by Winter Olympic commentators Eddie McGuire and Mick Molloy ... Read more
Sat February 20th, 2010 - 16 Comments
Channel Nine faces claims of homophobia again
Channel Nine is facing a flurry of complaints over its coverage of the Winter Olympics, following a series of homophobic comments made by Eddie McGuire and Mick Molloy. Commentating on the ... Read more
Thu February 18th, 2010 - 34 Comments
Mitcham signs up for Cologne
If Australia’s Gay Games team needed any inspiration when it heads to Cologne later this year it needs look no further than its own camp. Australia’s most recognisable gay athlete and ... Read more
Wed February 17th, 2010 - 4 Comments
Sydney Stingers get fundraising
Sydney’s gay and lesbian water polo club, the Sydney Stingers, is seeking community support to help them send a team to the Cologne Gay Games in August. “The Stingers have been ... Read more
Tue February 16th, 2010 - No Comments
Vancouver gets gay village
For the first time at an Olympic Games, the Olympic villages for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics will contain not just one, but two gay and lesbian pavilions. The Vancouver games ... Read more
Tue February 16th, 2010 - 5 Comments
A frock race
The Little Black Dress Run will come to Centennial Park this Saturday, February 20, to help raise funds for the Sydney Children’s Hospital’s Camp Good Time for children living with ... Read more
Tue February 16th, 2010 - No Comments
Cruising the harbour
The Australian Sailing and Cruising Club (ASCC) will hold its annual Mardi Gras Regatta this Saturday, February 20. The club hires six-metre long Elliott dinghies and holds a series of short ... Read more
Tue February 16th, 2010 - No Comments
A bent hockey day
The Bentstix Hockey Club will hold its annual Pink Hockey Championships on Saturday, February 20, at the St George Hockey Centre, Kyeemagh. Now in its fifth year, the social day starts ... Read more
Tue February 16th, 2010 - No Comments
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Tony, please think before speaking
You have to feel sorry for Tony Abbott. He has been criticised for speaking without thinking, in his comments on women’s virginity, and on homosexuality “challenging orthodox notions of the right order of things”. The ... Read more
Talk to us, Tony
Manly Liberal MP Mike Baird has “strongly recommended” Opposition leader Tony Abbott break his ... Read more
Talk to us, Tony
Manly Liberal MP Mike Baird has “strongly recommended” Opposition leader Tony Abbott break his ... Read more
Gabbing with Glambert
Appropriately for someone whose goth-glam appearance is the subject of much tabloid fodder, out-and-proud ... Read more
Court rules in favour of trans teen
Transgender rights advocates have welcomed a Family Court decision to allow a trans teenager ... Read more
Police apologise to Blacktown victims
Police will do by better by gay and lesbian victims of crime, NSW’s top ... Read more