The FUSE Big Gay Winter Breakfast was held on a beautiful Canberra morning at the Stepping Stone Café at Strathnairn Arts in Holt. It's an LGBTIQ+ and everyone-in-between event! Eat, drink and be merry on a beautiful winter morning with all your fabulous friends. Check out all the photos below:
Right-wing Australian Christan politician and lobbyist Lyle Shelton from the 'Family First Party' said he believes that the gay penguin couple at Sea Life Sydney Aquarium are not only "fake" but are also being used to indoctrinate young children.
The ACT Assembly has passed legislation introduced by Andrew Barr, Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory, to protect the human rights of people with innate variations of sex characteristics in medical settings.
The Variation in Sex Characteristics (Restricted Medical Treatment) Bill 2023 will implement mechanisms to regulate non-urgent medical care to encourage child participation in medical decisions, establish groundbreaking oversight mechanisms and provide transparency on medical practices and decision-making.
“There’s a lot to celebrate. There will never be another time...
LGBTIQ+ Canberrans and allies gathered at Federation Mall in front of Parliament House in Canberra for a rainbow-inspired photoshoot. Capturing a sea of rainbows and glitter, photographer Nathan J Lester encouraged everyone to come out on chilly Canberra day to show their true colours, creating a human Pride flag.
In recent months in Australia, we have seen vigilante racism in Rockhampton, booing, abuse and vitriol directed at First Nations footy players, and the appalling treatment of First Nations children jailed in adult prisons. Racism is a major issue in the debate over the proposed First Nations Voice to Parliament – and it will likely only continue to get worse.
Canberra Metro operations celebrate diversity and pride in Canberra. CMET, in collaboration with Transport Canberra, has launched a ‘Ride with Pride’ campaign that highlights the Rainbow Flag, a symbol that represents the diversity of the LGBTIQ+, and the Progress Pride Flag, which extends diversity representation further through people of colour and the transgender,gender-diverse community.
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni assented to the anti-gay bill on 26 May 2023. The new law legislates, among other things, a ten-year jail term for attempted same-sex acts, a 20-year jail term for promotion of homosexuality, a life sentence for the offence of homosexuality and a death penalty for aggravated homosexuality. Previously there has been been historical surveillance and targetting of queer people in Uganda, but no penalties nearly as harsh as this.
Producer and brainchild of GlitterBox Jolene Mifsud, AKA InkBits (They/Them), told FUSE that when the Queen of glitter, Jazida opened Flazeda in Belconnen Canberra, she asked them about producing a fabulous queer party here in Canberra.
Kenya is one of 32 African countries that criminalises homosexuality. Those who identify as part of the LGBTIQ+ community are often discriminated against, harassed and assaulted. Lise Woensdregt and Naomi van Stapele, who have researched queer experiences in Kenya for nine years, explain the impact of this ruling. So, what is the significance of the recent Kenyan supreme court ruling on a gay rights organisation?
