Canberra’s Yes!Fest announces 2019 line-up for Lonsdale St party
The team behind Canberra’s annual equality street festival, Yes!Fest, has announced the line-up for its 2019 event in mid November. This year’s Yes!Fest will feature …
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ACT Government pledges to ban ‘gay conversion therapy’
Gay conversion therapy will be banned in the Australian Capital Territory by the end of 2020 after the ACT government announced new plans to improve …
Bill to extinguish historic gay sex convictions passed unanimously in the ACT
Men in the ACT will now be able to have their historic consensual homosexual offences cleared from their records, however some advocates are still calling for a formal apology.
New bill set to clear historical consensual gay sex crimes in ACT
The ACT’s upcoming bill to clear historic convictions of consensual homosexual activities prior to its decriminalisation has been welcomed, but questions have been raised on whether it will properly “expunge” them.