Posts tagged LGBTI Queensland

The petition urges the Queensland government to guarantee program funding like in Victoria and the ACT.

While the rest of Australia excelled during the early response to the HIV and AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, one state government dragged its LGBTI citizens down during their greatest hour of need. David Alexander speaks to three key figures involved in the fight against homophobia and discrimination during the time of the Joh Bjelke-Petersen government.

The historic moment saw the Relationships (Civil Partnerships) and Other Acts Amendment Bill 2015 passed easily with 64 MPs voting in favour and 22 against.

MEMBERS of the LGBTI community must first get their internal selves right to achieve happiness and success according to the 2016 Queensland Australian of the …

David Alexander speaks to one of Brisbane’s LGBTI liaison police officers about his time marching in this year’s historic Brisbane Pride Festival, being an openly gay officer in the Queensland Police and the work being done by its LGBTI Liaison Program.

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.

Lockyer state Coalition MP Ian Rickuss has been criticised for calling a government MP and others “drag queens” during debate over a bill in Queensland Parliament on Wednesday.

For the past two weeks, Cairns was home to the biggest 11-day show of LGBTI pride in far north Queensland’s history as Tropical Mardi Gras came to town.

Brisbane’s first rainbow bus celebrating LGBTI diversity has been unveiled in the lead up to Brisbane Pride Festival, which will also see uniformed Queensland Ambulances officers joining their police counterparts to march for the first time.

A push to create a Brisbane City Council LGBTI Advisory Committee was warmly received when local advocate Phil Browne spoke directly to council earlier this week, along with an agreement to work on the possible creation of a rainbow crossing for the city.