In case you hadn’t noticed – and it seems most people haven’t, or don’t care – Vladimir Putin’s Russian government has turned on its gay community with a vengeance. Life for the Russian LGBTI community […]
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Blink and you’d miss it – the mainstream media did – but this week Foreign Minister Bob Carr said that gay rights were a ‘core foreign policy issue’ for the government. We look at what […]
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The CEO of YMCA said “Today gay men are under enormous pressure about their bodies, and we believe that a lack of body diversity in the media, including the gay press, and a relentless focus […]
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And first, a warning. Some listeners might find this topic confronting. If you are a survivor of sexual abuse, you may not want to read further, or listen to the show. Gay Parenting, and Child […]
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Kind of appropriate in a week when the actor who plays one of the most pansexual characters ever [John Barrowman: Captain Jack Harkness. Dr Who & Torchwood] took advantage of the US Supreme Court decision […]
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You see it on Grindr profiles all the time: No rice, no curry. Is it sexual racism, or just sexual preference? Jesse Matheson was the man who caused a storm, writing in the Star Observer “I […]
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My studio guests and I will be looking at the experience of transgender folk in the AFL , in particular the story of Kirsti Miller, the NSW transgender AFL player. We’ll talk to Kirsti herself […]
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Yup, you heard me. Why don’t we forget marriage – some things are more important. Or so lots of gay people think. Like the ongoing discrimination impacting our kids, leading to a huge rate of […]
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The government has two pieces of unfinished business for the LGBTI community, and with little time left before Parliament rises, it’s not certain they will make it to the statute book. The Sex Discrimination Act, […]
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What exactly are hate crimes? Do we need special laws to deal with hate crime, and why? Surely the crime is the same regardless of the motive, so why should the penalty be different? New […]
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