Wintour called for Margaret Court Arena to be renamed before saying she has “been alarmed by your Prime Minister’s record on LGBTQ rights, which seems backward in all senses.”
Senator Cormann is heading the Australian contingent at next week’s World Economic Forum, which will also be attended by a high-level Russian delegation potentially including President Vladimir Putin.
As many as 40 people are feared to have been detained in a new wave of the crackdown, which is believed to have begun in December 2016.
Equality Australia’s launch comes in the wake of anti-marriage equality campaign organisation Marriage Alliance changing tack to become anti-trans lobby group Binary Australia.
“ANZ agrees to the priorities set out in the Darlington Statement and echoes the calls by the intersex human rights movement to engage across legal, health, education, awareness and employment issues”
Pride in Diversity piloted a series of regional programs to bring member organisations’ employees together with smaller business, local governments, sporting groups, and LGBTI community organisations.
The result has no direct legal bearing on a 2017 court ruling which gave legislators two years to amend laws to allow same-sex couples to marry, but advocates say the public opposition is a blow to the campaign.
The Australian Christian Lobby is encouraging school students to sign an open letter to Scott Morrison and Bill Shorten calling for religious exemptions to be preserved in the Sex Discrimination Act.
“The thing is, there are bodies piled up out the back of conversion therapy camps, because of the list of kids who have committed suicide.”
Human Rights Watch said that police in West Sumatra trawled Facebook and found images of two of the women hugging and kissing.
