Posts tagged Andrew Barr

Australia’s first openly gay leader of a state or territory government has become the first to enter into a same-sex marriage, in another political first …

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 …

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 …

Canberra is getting ready for the third annual YES!Fest, which has quickly become one of Australia’s most exciting annual LGBTIQ events. YES!Fest creative director DANNY …

Iceland is the latest country to review its regulations on men who have sex with men blood donation, as Australia awaits latest recommendation from the Red Cross Blood Service.

Chief Minister Andrew Barr promised despite Shelton’s ‘conservative views’ the flags would definitely fly again during the city’s LGBTI festival later this year.

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.

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.

Attack from Australia’s first openly-gay federal parliamentarian criticised by Labor who say only they can deliver LGBTI law reform.

THE ACT Government has today announced plans to allow the expungement of historical gay sex convictions prior to the territory’s decriminalisation of consensual gay sex …