One Friday afternoon, I wandered into my local bookshop, starving for some queer fiction. My eyes scrolled down the decorated-in-rainbow column of young adult fiction until they hit the bottom of the shelf.
In response to members of the community, the organisers of Canberra's SpringOUT Festival have decided not to include a plainclothes police stall at this year's Pride Fair Day. The committee issued a statement acknowledging the concerns and outlined plans for further consultation. It's been a difficult time for the committee as other community members strongly favour including the local police force, saying healing can't happen if we don't include everyone.
I am a lesbian woman and I have been going on nights out on the LGBTQ+ nightlife scene (better known as the gay scene) for 20 years. My own experiences over the past 18 months have formed part of my ongoing research into lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) people’s experiences of the gay scene.
From Sierra Leone to the Spotlight, we chatted to Abu (he/they) about his journey to 'Titanique'. There is no denying that Celine Dion's iconic power ballad, 'My Heart Will Go On,' is an unforgettable part of the soundtrack to James Cameron's Oscar-winning blockbuster 'Titanic'.
Despite publishing James Baldwin’s first novel, Go Tell it on the Mountain, publishing house Alfred A. Knopf rejected his second. Upon receiving the manuscript of Giovanni’s Room in 1955, editor Henry Carlisle pronounced it a failure, telling Baldwin the novel, if published, would damage the author’s reputation.
The 2026 Census presented a crucial opportunity to count the LGBTQI+ population in Australia for the first time. Instead, the Albanese government has opted to disregard important questions on gender and sexual identity. Once again, LGBTQI+ Australians will be invisible in population data, sparking outrage in the community.
Over the past twenty years, Dr Hilary Caldwell has been quietly ‘ministering to the skin-hungry’. This trailblazing sexologist is certainly not your average queer. She is an active LGBTIQ+ community member with four children, a nurse, advocate, author and a proud sex worker.
