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  • Silence continues

    Three weeks since we reported on the shocking bashing of Aaron Warneke and Greg Harland, just one mainstream media outlet, the Blacktown Advocate, has picked up the story. Fairfax, SBS and ABC are all still missing in...

    • Posted 1353 days ago
  • Spreading honey as well as vinegar

    With the response to The Footy Show’s recent antics, few could doubt our form when it comes to singling out offensive depictions of ourselves for criticism. But to avoid looking humourless it’s equally important we heap praise...

    • Posted 1430 days ago
  • Civil service all we’re asking for

    In eloping to North America, Premier Nathan Rees was unknowingly following in the footsteps of increasing numbers of gay and lesbian Australians who’ve travelled to North America to access dignity denied at home. In comparison, the Rees’...

    • Posted 1590 days ago
  • Nepali lightning strikes again

    In July this year I wrote hopefully that India was on the brink of decriminalising gay sex because of a High Court challenge there -” and that such a change would have implications for the entire region....

    • Posted 1639 days ago
  • Stop…Obama time

    Not only the first black president of the United States of America, last Tuesday Barack Obama also became its first president to specifically acknowledge gays in an acceptance speech, thanking Americans both straight and gay. Four major...

    • Posted 1653 days ago
  • 21 Reasons to be outraged

    Produced by new anti-gay coalition Gender Matters, 21 Reasons Why Gender Matters is a 24 page rant about why gay men are diseased, mentally deranged criminals. It is a hate document unprecedented in Australian history, centred around...

    • Posted 1660 days ago
  • Shadow over Rees lengthens

    The NSW Government took a pounding this weekend, with one seat lost in Ryde and two digit swings away from Labor in Cabramatta and Lakemba. In Port Macquarie, the party didn’t even bother to run a candidate...

    • Posted 1674 days ago
  • Three down, forty seven to go

    Oh, to be a Connecticut Yankee in the Court of Richard Palmer. Over the weekend came the fabulous news that Connecticut has become the third US state to legalise same-sex marriage after its Supreme Court handed down...

    • Posted 1681 days ago
  • Mardi Gras funding a welcome bungle

    The State Government’s decision to finally provide in-cash resources for the running of Mardi Gras is to be welcomed despite the odd timing and a bungled announcement that’s resulted in backlash. Why now when Mardi Gras is...

    • Posted 1688 days ago
  • People in glass parliaments

    Many readers will have been impressed by the stirring words of Liberal backbencher Stuart Robert last week during debate over the Rudd Government’s Same-Sex Entitlements Bill. seeks to make the lifestyle choice of homosexuality equal...

    • Posted 1695 days ago
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