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Marriage equality the ultimate goal
Last week the NSW Government announced plans to introduce a state relationship register. The NSW Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby (GLRL), while encouraged by the announcement, does not see registries ... Read more
Tue March 2nd, 2010 - No Comments
Committee consults with community
Gay community leaders have met with the Human Rights Consultation Committee to discuss marriage, anti-discrimination legislation and the need for a human rights charter. Committee chair Frank Brennan and member Mary ... Read more
Tue September 15th, 2009 - 2 Comments
Lady of the Lobby’s lasting legacy
Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby co-convenor Emily Gray is leaving the organisation, and Australia, to work for a human rights barrister in the British House of Lords. Gray said she was ... Read more
Tue September 1st, 2009 - No Comments
Changes at GLRL
The NSW Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby is pleased to announce the appointment of Kellie McDonald as the new co-convenor. Kellie replaces Emily Gray, who is about to embark on ... Read more
Tue August 25th, 2009 - 7 Comments
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A commissioner’s work is never done
Human Rights Commissioner Graeme Innes handed over the reins to his successor, Commission President Catherine Branson, earlier this month still wishing he had time to do more. His time in the ... Read more
Tue July 28th, 2009 - 1 Comment
‘78ers threaten political blockade
A senior gay couple who lost $420 in fortnightly Centrelink payments have called on others affected by the changes to take direct action against prominent Labor MPs. -˜78ers, James Hunter, 56, ... Read more
Tue July 21st, 2009 - 31 Comments
Pride Week to liberate and celebrate
Less than a year after the closure of Sydney's Pride Centre, Pride Week has made an astounding comeback with a new festival packed with over 50 events planned to liberate, ... Read more
Tue June 16th, 2009 - 1 Comment
Civil marriage
Later this year, the GLRL will launch a campaign for formal relationship recognition. Since 2006, when the GLRL conducted community consultations around NSW, the community told us two things. ... Read more
Tue June 9th, 2009 - 2 Comments
Census to count gay marriages
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) plans to release data on same-sex couples who tick the -˜married' box on the 2011 national census. Previously same-sex couples who tried to declare a ... Read more
Tue May 12th, 2009 - 28 Comments
Stop stalling on adoption
Earlier this year, the GLRL made a submission to, and gave oral evidence at, the NSW Adoption Inquiry. The GLRL has been lobbying for many years for adoption laws ... Read more
Tue May 12th, 2009 - 2 Comments
Community defender appointed judge
Former ACON vice-president and Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby volunteer Rachel Pepper sits relaxed and easy in her Phillip St barristers chambers. Wearing jeans and a broad smile, nothing about ... Read more
Tue May 5th, 2009 - No Comments
-˜Opposite’ rights
We live in a land that you can choose same-sex marriage or opposite marriage, and you know what, in my country and in my family, I think that I believe ... Read more
Tue April 28th, 2009 - No Comments
Super with your sponge cake this Mother’s Day
Mother's Day this year may come imbued with a new sense of optimism for lesbian mums as they celebrate the suite of new rights granted at the end of last ... Read more
Tue April 21st, 2009 - No Comments
Gun-slingin’ equality
Many of you would have heard by now that Iowa, yes Iowa, has become the third state in America, after Connecticut and Massachusetts, to legalise gay marriage. Last week, the Iowa ... Read more
Wed April 8th, 2009 - 12 Comments
Forums to explain new rights
The Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby has received funding to hold seminars for professionals and parents on the recent law changes that affect gay and lesbian families. Lobby convenor Emily Gray ... Read more
Wed March 18th, 2009 - 2 Comments
An economic rescue plan
This year is an exciting one for my family and me. Last December, on a ski-slope, my little sister's boyfriend got down on one knee and asked her to marry ... Read more
Wed March 18th, 2009 - 4 Comments
Ghassan leaves wisdom for next volunteers
The Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby's first paid employee, Ghassan Kassisieh, moved on from six years active work for the organisation last week, saying much more can be done if ... Read more
Wed March 18th, 2009 - 3 Comments
From ‘Boom Bye-Bye’ to equality
As we celebrate this year's Mardi Gras, we celebrate our community, we celebrate who we love, and we celebrate the progress made in gay rights over the past three decades. ... Read more
Wed March 4th, 2009 - 1 Comment
The Lobby needs you
In three weeks' time, the Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby will march down Oxford St to celebrate past achievements, but most importantly to show the wider Australian community what remains ... Read more
Wed February 11th, 2009 - No Comments
Lesbian in charge
Last week saw the appointment of the world's first openly gay prime minister. On Monday, the Social Democratic Alliance Party in Iceland chose Johanna Sigurdardottir, the former social affairs minister, ... Read more
Wed February 4th, 2009 - 1 Comment
It’s time
Just before the federal election in 2007, a Galaxy poll found that 71 percent of Australians supported same-sex equality, and 54 percent specifically supported same-sex marriage. A more recent ... Read more
Wed January 28th, 2009 - No Comments
Celebrate our gains
2008 has been nothing short of extraordinary for the advancement of same-sex equality and a big year for the GLRL. We've lobbied, rallied, made speeches, written submissions and choreographed a ... Read more
Wed December 17th, 2008 - 9 Comments
Lobby honours Human Rights Commisioner
Human Rights Commissioner Graeme Innes has been honoured for his push for a better deal for gay and lesbian people during the Howard government years. The Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby's ... Read more
Wed November 19th, 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 of Australian Love Letters to all Senators, to provide them ... Read more
Wed November 12th, 2008 - No Comments
Back talk with action
This week the Australian Senate debated the first raft of same-sex reforms in light of the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee's final report on the bills. Unfortunately, the Senate ... Read more
Wed October 15th, 2008 - No Comments
Current Issue
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