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*UPDATE: Due to the coronavirus (COVID-19), the Pride In Sport Awards and LGBTQ Inclusion Awards have been postponed until later in the year. More information …

Written by Kade Matthews Looking to get outside this summer? Make some new friends? Maybe even fulfil last year’s new resolution of losing weight or …

Sacked Wallabies player and former Star Observer cover boy Israel Folau has blocked this publication on social media. The former footballer, whose Rugby Australia contract …

Sacked Wallabies star Israel Folau has yet again caused controversy with comments about homosexuality, this time linking the bushfire crisis and drought in NSW and …

“We were so delighted when Rugby Australia stood up for us,” declared Michael Smith, International Gay Rugby Regional Representative for the Eastern Hemisphere, to the …

In 2009, Ben Lancken put an advert in the queer press asking for interest in forming a gay rugby team, not knowing if anyone would …

It comes as reports emerge that the rugby star’s cousin, Josiah Folau, left his position at St. Gregory’s College in Campbelltown after describing the Catholic Church as “the synagogue of Satan”.

“There were genuinely no signs of Folau’s homophobia at the time. But perhaps we were all naïve.”

With our 40th anniversary relaunch issue about to come out, we look back at the edition that marked our 35th anniversary…which featured Israel Folau on the cover.

The Monash University study found that while over 80 per cent of young players think a gay player would feel welcome on their team, around the same number heard teammates using words like ‘fag’ and ‘poof’.