Without even realising it, your world sometimes gradually gets smaller: less walking, fewer days in the office, cancelling on friends. Watching plans disintegrate on the chat as friends struggle to settle on a date or place for a catch-up. You might start to feel a bit flat or disconnected. Subtle changes in habit and mood take hold. Could you be … lonely?
The United States, long viewed as a global leader in democracy and human rights, has been added to the CIVICUS Monitor Watchlist, a list reserved for countries experiencing significant declines in civil liberties. This development, which unfolded in March 2025 under President Donald Trump’s second term, sends ripples far beyond America’s borders, including through Australia’s own LGBTIQ communities.
If you’ve been on the internet lately, chances are you’ve heard an intriguing – and perhaps even startling – descriptor applied to men’s eyewear: “slutty little glasses”. Coined by online creator and culture critic Blakely Thornton, the term was earlier used to describe the fashionable wire-framed specs sported by actor Jonathan Bailey’s character in the film Jurassic World Rebirth. Lately it’s been applied to a broader range of men’s glasses.
Online game marketplaces itch.io and Valve’s Steam have recently delisted or completely removed more than 20,000 titles from their storefronts, after not-for-profit group Collective Shout pressured payment processors to change their rules.
Coriolanus is one of Shakespeare’s least performed plays; perhaps because the hero is so pugnacious and classist, impressive in his strident vehemence, but lacking the vulnerability of a Macbeth or Othello.
Fearless, unfiltered, and proudly regional, acclaimed author Holden Sheppard writes with grit, heart, and a bold voice for queer Australia. Born and raised in Geraldton, WA, he made waves with his award-winning debut Invisible Boys, later adapted into a hit TV series.
An Icon Celebrated by all Australians, Magda Szubanski, one of our most beloved comedians and outspoken LGBTIQ advocates, has been officially inducted into the TV WEEK Logie Awards Hall of Fame, marking four decades of breaking new ground in entertainment and equality.
The high-profile legal battle between Sall Grover, founder of the Lesbian women-only social media app Giggle for Girls, and transgender woman Roxanne Tickle entered a new phase today, as Grover’s appeal against Tickle’s gender discrimination victory commenced in the Full Federal Court.
Arc Cinema presents a series of Friday night filmic feasts hosted by Venus Mantrap – local drag artist and culture warrior. Fright Night: Cult Cinema Classics at the NFSA will plumb the archives to showcase cinema with bite, edgy movies and fan favourites – films that unnerve, push buttons, ask questions and just look good on the big screen.
