Posts in category Community Spotlight

By Adrian Murdoch Last year, nearly 300,000 Australians reported participating in IDAHOBIT celebrations across the country. In 2017, this figure was reported as being closer …

By Dr Christopher Pepin-Neff As Australia celebrates the 2022 International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Interphobia & Transphobia (IDAHOBIT) on Tuesday, 17 May, another day looms …

“Isn’t It Queer?” is, as director Alexander Andrews states, “merely a celebration of love.” It does not make any novel sweeping statements, nor does it …

Starlady, aptly named for someone who lives their life in a whirl of colour, sequins and diamantés, is also a formidable fighter for the rights of the trans …

The first time I visited Parramatta was when I was thirteen years old. It was during a time in the late nineties when teenagers were using pagers and …

Jack Whitney, co-convenor of the NSW Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby, Social Worker and self-confessed “Policy Geek,” grew up in Hillsong territory but didn’t let that environment stop …

By Budi Sudarto I arrived in Australia in 1998, and in the past 24 years, I’ve witnessed progress and changes resulting from our ongoing activism. …

When I first proposed to chat with Lingsi Lu and Leanor Barz from the Street Roller Hockey Chix for this month’s column, I thought, “these …

By Souksavanh T. Keovorabouth, Diné Leaving home in the Sonoran Desert, I never imagined myself, a Queer (Two-Spirit), Brown, Indigenous (Diné), multiracial person having the …

A 2015 article began with the headline “Here’s Why Penny Wong Will Never Be Prime Minister.” The Out Labor Senator and Shadow foreign minister had …