Posts tagged LGBT news

As we usher in a brand new year, the Star Observer reflects on some of the biggest LGBTI news stories of 2015 – from important law reforms to topics that had everyone talking.

SYDNEY Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras’ 2016 season will once again feature an array of events, live performances, exhibitions, parties and activities from February 19 until …

The world’s most famous bearded lady, Conchita Wurst, will finally be part of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras festival with a concert at the Sydney Opera House. David Alexander caught up with her to talk about her recent involvement in Adelaide’s Feast Festival, the high calibre of Australian drag queens, and Australia’s return to Eurovision in 2016.

Charlie Sheen has become the latest high-profile Hollywood celebrity to publicly confirm his HIV status since Rock Hudson in the 1980s.

Until marriage equality happens, the story of a gay man who was denied his rights as next-of-kin for his deceased partner should come as no surprise.

A counter Change.org petition has already garnered more than twice as many signatures as the controversial one that called on media organisations and human rights groups to drop the “T” for trans from the LGBTI acronym when speaking about the community.

Melbourne’s LGBTI community came together last Friday to celebrate the hard work undertaken by the community over the past year — from raising awareness around the trans* and gender diverse people to helping gay youth in rural Victoria.

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.

The symbolic gesture will see Hobart join several other councils around Australia who have flown their flags during LGBTI pride festivals or IDAHOT day.

AMERICAN pharmaceuticals company Turing Pharmaceuticals has been met with controversy after it increased the cost of one of its recently-acquired prescription drugs Daraprim, which people living …