QNN

7 Jun 2017

Q-mmunity Network News, Ep 20 2017

Government & Organizations, Health, News & Politics, Uncategorized

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;

• The Sydney University AFL club is holding a pride game to promote inclusiveness and to fight homophobia in sport.
• Real Exchanges from Grindr are at the centre of a powerful new campaign to increase awareness around HIV stigma and its effects on the LGBTIQ community.
• The body of missing Sydney man, Matthew Leveson, has been found.
• Amnesty International has gathered more than half a million signatures calling for an end to the alleged persecution of gay and bisexual men in Chechnya.
• Tennis player, Margaret Court, who stirred controversy with increasingly outrageous comments about the LGBTIQ community last week, has been used in a poster for a Melbourne gay event.
• The annual GLORIA’s were handed out last week, with some high profile winners.

In Sport;

• American soccer teams will be wearing rainbow themed uniforms to support LGBTIQ pride month.
• Tennis player, Andy Murray, says he may refuse to play on Margaret Court Arena at the Australian Open, after Margaret Court’s latest homophobic rant.

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