QNN

6 Sep 2017

Q-mmunity Network News, Ep 32 2017

Government & Organizations, Health, News & Politics

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;

• Activists have said that Canberra’s recent marriage equality rally over the weekend was the largest LGBTI rights rally in the cities history.
• Sydney drag royalty, Simone Troy, has passed away over the weekend.
• A new survey has found that young trans people are at higher risk for suicide.
• A Brisbane church, supporting marriage equality, has been vandalised this week.
• Senator Cory Bernardi has defended the widely criticized anti-marriage equality ad.
• Former Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, is continuing his hard line approach against marriage equality.
• There have been over 98,000 new people added to the electoral role since the marriage equality postal survey was announced.

In Sport;

• Danish soccer players have united for a campaign to fight homophobia in soccer.
• Tottenham Hotspur Footbal Club are said to sign a soccer player who used a gay slur against his boss.
• British Olympic Hurdler, Colin Jackson, has come out as gay.

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