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I cried this week. It’s not that my team lost and I was a poor sportsman, or that my favourite enormous bratwurst was burnt on the BBQ. One of my volleyball ... Read more
Tue February 2nd, 2010 - No Comments
Games athletes need your help
Thirty-four lesbian and gay athletes from countries as diverse as South Africa, China, Chile and the Philippines have an even greater reason to celebrate the New Year: the international Federation ... Read more
Tue January 5th, 2010 - No Comments
Letters
CONGRATULATIONS #1 When the first issue of Sydney Star Observer was published over 30 years ago, Sydney’s gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community was slowing emerging. Just three years later, HIV/AIDS began ... Read more
Wed December 9th, 2009 - No Comments
Outgames gold for the Bentstix
Sydney’s gay and lesbian hockey club, the Bentstix, took out gold at the World Outgames in Copenhagen last week. It’s the side’s second win in two tours of Europe. Their first ... Read more
Mon September 7th, 2009 - No Comments
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Convicts to tackle The Footy Show
Members of the Sydney Convicts gay rugby club will speak out against homophobia in sport while making their first appearance on Channel Nine's The Footy Show this Thursday night. The non-professional ... Read more
Tue June 9th, 2009 - 37 Comments
Sport may be divided into two broad categories; individual or team sports. The division comes from personal characteristics which inform the choices we make, venues, affordability, upbringing and familial or ... Read more
Tue June 9th, 2009 - No Comments
Mitcham’s support for gay games
The Federation of Gay Games has released a video message from Olympic gold medal winner Matthew Mitcham on its website, gaygames.com, encouraging everyone to participate in the Gay Games. The ... Read more
Tue June 9th, 2009 - No Comments
Sport Briefs
TENNIS ANYONE? Tennis Sydney runs social and competition tennis, from beginners to advanced. Contact Ross on 0419 598 060 or Ben on 0434 822 915 or visittennissydney.org.au. WOMEN'S BASEBALL The Sydney Women's Baseball ... Read more
Tue May 26th, 2009 - Comments Off
Convicts go barbarian
Three of the Sydney Convicts' most upstanding players will turn barbarian next month to take part in the Union Cup in London. Similar to the Bingham World Cup, the Union brings ... Read more
Tue April 21st, 2009 - No Comments
Record numbers sign on for baseball season
The Sydney Women's Baseball League has again broken records for new enrolments after attracting an extra 50 players at their open day on April 5. The influx will allow the league ... Read more
Tue April 21st, 2009 - No Comments
The heart of the matter
An Asian member of one of Team Sydney's sports clubs wrote of the frustration and despair faced by different cultures over coming out in a society that prides itself on ... Read more
Fri April 3rd, 2009 - 1 Comment
Time running out to register for World Outgames
If you want to make it to the second World Outgames in Copenhagen, Denmark later this year, it's time to get your act together. Registrations close in just a few ... Read more
Wed March 18th, 2009 - No Comments
One stop shop for Gay Games
Australian representatives from the Gay Games will hold an information and registration session on Saturday March 21 to garner further interest in the upcoming 2010 Cologne Games. Scheduled for 5pm at ... Read more
Wed March 18th, 2009 - No Comments
Risque management
The playing field, court, floor or fluid is a dangerous thing. Fields get rough, hard and very, very dirty. Floors become slippery, hard to land on and are generally encumbered ... Read more
Wed November 12th, 2008 - No Comments
Chix rule the waves
As the weather heats up and the humidity starts to take over the brain, daydreams of living life large like a Bonds T-shirt commercial can become apparent and the overwhelming ... Read more
Wed November 5th, 2008 - No Comments
Get those pictures in
Punters are being encouraged to get their cameras out and submit their snaps for the first ever gay and lesbian sports photography competition. Team Sydney has launched a sports photography competition ... Read more
Wed November 5th, 2008 - No Comments
Quicken up your quick step
The date has been set. You have four months to put some extra fox in your trot and collect enough rhinestones to decorate an outfit before the 2009 Same-Sex Dance ... Read more
Wed October 29th, 2008 - No Comments
Sport clubs real winners at Sports Day Out
Gay and lesbian sporting clubs are reporting swathes of new recruits following the success of Sports Day Out on Sunday, which managed to attract a record number of people to ... Read more
Wed October 15th, 2008 - 1 Comment
Sit down, fat lady
Billy Kennedy Have you ever been involved in a sport, whether playing or watching, and you were sure your team was going to lose before the end of the game? ... Read more
Wed October 15th, 2008 - No Comments
Queens take to the green
The newly formed Unbiased Bowling gay lawn bowls club moves from strength to strength with people rushing to join. Just one week from their formation the queens of the green managed ... Read more
Wed October 15th, 2008 - No Comments
Sunday’s the day to get sweaty.
Sports Day Out is finally here, complete with a finalised itinerary, so start exercising your highlighting skills before you hit the field this Sunday to make sure you make the ... Read more
Wed October 8th, 2008 - No Comments
We’re talking softball
The 2008 softball season is about to begin, but if you aren't sure if you want to commit yet, Sports Day Out on October 12 offers the perfect opportunity to ... Read more
Wed October 8th, 2008 - No Comments
On your marks, get snapping.
The first ever gay and lesbian sporting photography competition will be launched at this year's Sports Day Out in a bid to develop an extensive range of stock photos to ... Read more
Wed October 8th, 2008 - No Comments
Outgames heading to Wellington
Wellington, New Zealand has been named as the preferred host city for the 2nd Asia Pacific Outgames, to be held in March 2011. Following on from the success of the 1st ... Read more
Wed October 8th, 2008 - No Comments
Hall of Fame welcomes Matthew Mitcham
Australia's first openly gay Olympic gold medallist Matthew Mitcham was one of the guests of honour at the 24th annual Australian Sports Hall of Fame induction ceremony at Melbourne's Crown ... Read more
Wed October 8th, 2008 - 3 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