Posts tagged gay politicians

The 2020 Victorian local government elections saw a record number of queer people standing for and elected to local councils right across the state. Around …

Australia is one of the few countries in the world to have openly gay politicians, including a head of government. Politics In Colour is organising …

Nicholas Yatromanolakis made history in Greece on January 4, when he was named in his new role as Deputy Minister of Culture, which makes him …

Leo Vandakar will be Ireland’s first openly gay leader, its first Asian prime minister, and the youngest prime minister ever.

If elected Varadkar would be the fourth openly gay world leader in modern history.

A packed public gallery burst into applause as the NSW Government apologised to the 78ers.

Ahead of his upcoming campaign against the idea of a plebiscite on marriage equality, the openly gay Labor candidate for the federal seat of Brisbane, Pat O’Neill, has said it would be a form of bullying, and that it would grant a platform for bigots while forcing LGBTI people to “beg” for equal rights.

Ahead of his maiden speech in the Senate yesterday, Elias Jahshan had a chat with newly-sworn in and openly gay South Australian Greens Senator Robert Simms about some of the LGBTI issues he’d like to address at a federal level.

Star Observer speaks to Pat O’Neill, the new Labor and openly-gay candidate for the federal electorate of Brisbane.