Posts tagged gay panic

Forty five years after South Australia became the first state in Australia to decriminalise homosexuality, it is the only jurisdiction yet to outlaw the discriminatory …

“If 2018 has taught us anything, it is that we are stronger when we work together.”

“Today we suffer an added layer of pain from learning that he was most likely killed because of who he was as a human being,” Bernstein’s father said.

The state government had previously committed to scrapping the law by the end of last year.

State Director Wendy Francis has said scrapping the law will have ‘unintended consequences’

The Sydney comedian has made an unlikely alliance with a Catholic Bishop.

As the LGBTI community in Queensland celebrates the restoration of civil unions, many advocates and community members are asking what’s next for LGBTI issues and law reform in the Sunshine State. We speak to a few about what they would like to see happen next year.

While the national marriage equality debate goes on (and on), public submissions into the Queensland Government’s plan to restore civil unions made the case as to why they remain an important issue for the state’s LGBTI community.

THERE are calls for the NSW Parliament to use the next few sitting weeks to introduce a bill that will repeal ‘gay panic’ laws. Following …

After years of campaigning by activists, the NSW Government has given its strongest indication yet that it will finally remove the use of the ‘gay …