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25 Oct 2017

Q-mmunity Network News, Ep 39 2017

Government & Organizations, Health, News & Politics

Q-mmunity Network News, Ep 39 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 marriage equality debate in NSW over the weekend was made slightly more exciting, when a handful of representatives from the No campaign fell off the stage.
  • The Australian Christian Lobby’s, Lyle Shelton, has warned that No campaigners won’t stop fighting against marriage equality, in the event of a Yes win.
  • A trans teenager in Melbourne, has reportedly been assaulted on a train by an older man wearing a vote No badge.
  • Former Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, will give a lecture to an American organisation that has supported making homosexuality illegal again.
  • Christine Forster has starred in the music video for a powerful new cover of George Michael’s “Freedom”, with her partner Virginia.
  • A Sydney bride is unhappy after a rally against marriage equality was held outside the Cathedral where she was married on Saturday.
  • Melbournians were treated to a flash dance mob of roughly 50 LGBTIQ people and their allies over the weekend.

In Sport;

  • Comedian Joel Creasey has revealed he’s had a fling with a gay AFL footballer.
  • Connor McGregor is in hot water for using a gay slur to describe Andre Fili several times during a UFC event in Poland.
  • A controversial last minute decision by the AFL has blocked trans player, Hannah Mouncey, from being drafted in the AFLW.

 

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