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    Public safe-sex messages under threat?

    Perth businesses and organisations linked to the LGBTI community are concerned over a pledge by state opposition leader Mark McGowan to limit all outdoor advertising to a G-rating. WA Premier Colin Barnett and Labor’s McGowan addressed the...

    • Posted 76 days ago
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    Oral history collection launched

    A new online collection of LGBTI oral history has been launched to celebrate the completion of a community project dedicated to preserving Sydney’s gay past. New South Wales Governor Marie Bashir and Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore...

    • Posted 82 days ago
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    Gay Jewish principal settles

    Joseph Gerassi, the first openly gay principal of an Australian Jewish school who was mysteriously sacked in 2011, has settled legal action just days before going to the Federal Court. Gerassi was suing Melbourne’s Bialik College for...

    • Posted 82 days ago
  • Catholic school denied help to gay student

    ALEX MCKINNON A former Catholic school teacher has come forward claiming he was forced to deny help to a young gay student by his employers. Daniel Torcasio, 33, taught for four years at an exclusive Catholic boys’...

    • Posted 118 days ago
  • Gay schools program targeted

    The NSW government is resisting pressure to cancel a program that targets homophobia and transphobia in schools. The Proud Schools program, introduced by the Keneally Labor government in early 2011, aims to reduce homophobia in the schoolyard...

    • Posted 119 days ago
  • New push for school ally groups

    High school students starting up gay-straight ally groups in Victorian schools still face resistance from school authorities and verbal abuse from other students but two organisations are lending a hand. Last week, approximately 25 young people from across...

    • Posted 159 days ago
  • Gay students stand out

    Minus18 and Safe Schools Coalition Victoria will launch the new Stand Out Network at the National Safe School Symposium on Saturday, October 20 to support LGBTI high school students and their allies. Network coordinator Alice Chesworth said...

    • Posted 214 days ago
  • Queer youth survey launch

    by BENJAMIN RILEY Victoria University has launched Equal Play, a study examining the experiences of queer people aged 14–23 in sport and physical education. Research officer Grant O’Sullivan told the Star Observer the study aimed to help improve...

    • Posted 215 days ago
  • Ethics of HIV placebo trials questioned

    A NSW PhD student will go through to the finals of a “three-minute thesis” competition with her work on the ethics of using placebos in HIV drug trials, after winning the University of Sydney’s (UoS) stage of...

    • Posted 222 days ago
  • New sexuality strategy

    Tasmanian gay community advocates have welcomed the release of a new relationships and sexuality education strategy by the state Education Department. “We welcome the inclusion of issues in the new strategy because having gay and lesbian...

    • Posted 229 days ago
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