Tag Archive | "Doug Pollard"

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The mother of all battles

If there’s one thing I have learned from more than 40 years of community activism, it’s that you can never let up. Broadly speaking, [...]

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A tale of two cultures

Two guys drop into a pub for a drink. It’s their first date. They’re getting along fine. They exchange a kiss or two. Then [...]

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That’s so gay — whatever gay is

Yet another survey offering a definitive answer to the question, “How many people are gay?” It’s by the Williams Institute of the University of [...]

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Screaming Jesus

Sometimes you just can’t maintain the cynicism. Right after I rolled my eyes at a piece of US research claiming Catholics were hot for [...]

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A breach of trust

The ALSO Foundation was originally created, with great foresight, to provide an aged-care facility for GLBTI seniors. Significant bequests were made to it for [...]

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Julia the Christian

Let me understand this. Here we have a prime minister who doesn’t believe in God telling us to read the Bible because it’s the [...]

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Letters to the editor – Sydney

NOT FOR POSING Normally I agree with, and even get a good laugh from, Doug Pollard’s ‘Grumpy Old’ column, but this time he has [...]

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Doug Pollard – Food, fat and faggotry

I love food. I love to cook, I love to eat, and I love to feed other people. And it shows. Yes folks, I [...]

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Going Dutch

I live in an outer ’burb of Melbourne not known for its ethnic diversity. But those with a keen eye will find a small [...]

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Not so much a culture, more a pathology

As GLBTIQ folk we grow up and live under the burden of many damaging myths about ourselves, so it’s not surprising many of us [...]

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Marriage or civil unions?

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