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Celebrating GLBT sport
Team Sydney has declared the 2010 Mardi Gras Sports Festival and Fair Day Sports Village a success. The Sports Festival featured 18 events highlighting the skills, diversity and team spirit of ... Read more
Tue March 9th, 2010 - No Comments
Gross. Really, really gross
I have a problem. I work in the fitness industry. I have fat staff who are to be role models to young people in schools and the community, demonstrating how ... Read more
Tue March 9th, 2010 - 1 Comment
Putting the squeeze on sterotypes
Gay and lesbian sport in Australia has a bigger profile than ever before thanks to Olympic diving gold medallist Matthew Mitcham. With one dive Mitcham showed the world we could match ... Read more
Sat February 6th, 2010 - No Comments
Team Sydney needs cash
Sponsorship woes may impact on Team Sydney’s ability to keep increasing its visibility. Team Sydney has only managed to secure one sponsorship agreement, through ACON, for the 2009/10 period. Turned down ... Read more
Tue January 26th, 2010 - 1 Comment
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Celebrate the postitives
The princesses of power shine with the turn of the new decade. Miss Treated screams the headline act in the local gay press. Her sister, the demure Miss Understood, flutters an ... Read more
Tue January 19th, 2010 - No Comments
Final call for Gay Games early bird registrations
The 2010 Cologne Gay Games might still be more than six months away, but once the clock ticks over to 2010 this New Year’s Eve, those planning to travel to ... Read more
Tue December 15th, 2009 - 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
Where’s Teddy?
I creak down the stairs, my ankles, knees and various other bits aligning themselves like Sydney buses in George St at 5 pm for the adventures the day may throw ... Read more
Wed December 9th, 2009 - No Comments
Team Sydney needs board members
Team Sydney president Geoffrey Radford was re-elected for another year at the organisation’s AGM last week. “It’s indeed an honour to represent our community by serving another term as leader of ... Read more
Wed December 9th, 2009 - No Comments
Team Sydney gets prepared
The annual Team Sydney Mardi Gras Sports Festival is expected to increase in size next year with 16 scheduled events. The organisation has also been busy organising the sports village ... Read more
Wed December 9th, 2009 - No Comments
Applications needed
Team Sydney is urging sporting clubs and teams to download the 2010 Mardi Gras Sports Festival kit and submit applications as soon as possible. Team Sydney will submit the applications ... Read more
Tue September 1st, 2009 - No Comments
Superficial or super fit?
Body image is not important in our community. Not if you ask those who have either poor self-esteem or a non-stereotypical toned, hung, gym-buffed and well-defined musculature. That's just how I ... Read more
Tue August 25th, 2009 - 2 Comments
Urban migration
As the rural population moves into cities and their surrounds a strange phenomenon occurs: the values and lifestyle of the country remain in the country, and the all-powerful forces of ... Read more
Tue August 11th, 2009 - No Comments
Game On!
My doctor says his Darlinghurst patients should never be put into the pool of the -˜Australian medical norm'. The average patient doesn't meet any of the criteria for -˜risk factors ... Read more
Tue July 14th, 2009 - No Comments
Freezone looks to even the score
On Saturday 6 June Freezone Volleyball Club made the trek down to Melbourne for the Snowgum/Eagle Leather Winter Slam Tournament, hosted by the Melbourne Spikers Volleyball Club. Freezone sent 1 A-Grade ... Read more
Tue June 9th, 2009 - No Comments
A make or break moment in gay sport
The heart beats a littler faster, palms sweat. Watch only the pitcher's arm. Wait. Balanced, yet ready to swing and sprint to first base. The picture is the moment, here ... Read more
Tue April 14th, 2009 - No Comments
New date set for Sports Council meeting
Team Sydney have set a new date for their upcoming Council meeting, Tuesday March 31, to discuss the past year's successes and this year's challenges. Following a poor turnout for last ... Read more
Fri March 27th, 2009 - No Comments
Happy snappers do it in sporting style
Buff boys, glamorous girls and cheeky bottoms all featured in the final line-up of winners at the inaugural Team Sydney sports photography competition, launched at this year's Fair Day. Six winners ... Read more
Wed February 25th, 2009 - No Comments
Photo competition deadline looms
Punters are being encouraged to get their cameras out and submit their snaps for the first ever gay and lesbian sports photography competition. The Team Sydney competition is about to close, ... Read more
Wed January 14th, 2009 - No Comments
The Getting of wisdom
The longevity of a gay sports club is an oxymoron. Where do we locate future gay and lesbian sports people? In the year Team Sydney celebrates 25 years, it may ... Read more
Wed December 10th, 2008 - 1 Comment
Strong sporting finish
It has been a year of improvements and growth for Team Sydney, with the group showing a profit in its 2007/08 Annual Report which was made available at last Saturday's ... Read more
Wed November 26th, 2008 - No Comments
Games equality seach heads to Cape Town
The annual meeting of the Federation of Gay Games will create an international dialogue on women in sport, and hopefully generate some solutions which could be applicable to the Australian ... Read more
Wed October 22nd, 2008 - 3 Comments
Sport grants on offer
Team Sydney is encouraging all sporting clubs struggling to cover costs to apply now for a federal volunteer grant. The government initiative aims to provide support for a range of non-profit ... Read more
Wed September 24th, 2008 - No Comments
A sporting frame of mind
It is time to leave behind those memories of primary school gymkhana hell and experience sport in an all-different and all-supportive environment. With over a dozen sporting clubs coming together on ... Read more
Wed September 17th, 2008 - No Comments
Gay picnic in Parramatta Park
Don't forget the annual Parramatta Pride Picnic will take place this Sunday 21 September at Parramatta Park -” just look for the rainbow flag. All community members are invited to join ... Read more
Wed September 17th, 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