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26 Apr 2017

Q-mmunity Network News, Ep 14 2017

Government & Organizations, Health, News & Politics, Uncategorized

Q-mmunity Network News, Ep 14 2017

Welcome to our weekly news bulletin for the gay and lesbian community, broadcast nationally via the Community Radio Network and on JOY 949. News this week includes;

  • A group of 78ers have condemned the alleged gay concentration camps in Chechnya and plan to protest them at the Russian Consulate in Sydney.
  • A new national organisation called The Equality Project, plans to bring together queer advocates and advocacy groups that are often disparate.
  • Trans students at a Sydney University have been subjected to ongoing threats and violence from other students.
  • Hannah Gadsby won the 2017 Barry Award, during the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
  • Advocates are calling on queer Australian’s to respond to a federal government survey on aged care, as a way to highlight to the government the benefits of marriage equality for older people.
  • Shannon Purser, known for playing Ethel in Riverdale and Barb from Stranger Things,  has come out as bisexual.

In Sport;

  • News Week has reported that a former NFL star who ended his life in jail last week, was a tortured and a violent, bisexual man.
  • The NCAA has voted to award North Carolina several championship matched in the coming years.
  • A Chinese basketball team has been slammed for allowing students to carry anti-gay banners.

 

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