People like Robert French, queer elders and community activists over many years contributed to the decriminalisation of homosexuality in NSW in 1984. It was a painful, long road for many people in the community.
A small city with a big pink heart! Canberra is well known as Australia's most LGBTIQ+ inclusive and gay-friendly city. It's busting at the seams with stunning architecture, museums, parks and historical sites — and that's just the beginning.
Canberra Legal Aid ACT has partnered with Merdian to offer a Free LGBTIQ+ Legal Clinic drop-in service for all the communities. Drop in to see if they can assist you with any legal matters your concerned about. No bookings are required.
News publisher Out claimed Scott’s Ripley for gayness. However, Scott’s own aspirations are more ambiguous, saying “he’s a queer character, in the sense that he’s very ‘other’.”
Often generated from personal narratives, Louis Grant fashions oversensitive, hyper-fragile entities that are not so much fragile because they’re made of glass, but because of the emotional tumult they’re arranged in and by. ‘I know my age and I act like it’, is a reflection on the end of his 20’s. It recalls the melodramatic, nostalgic and often love-sick times.
Ruby Pedder receives Australia’s largest emerging designer prize: Ubank’s Feel-Good Fashion Fund. Australia's award-winning digital bank, ubank, has announced Ruby Pedder as the 2024 honouree of its Feel-Good Fashion Fund, Australia’s newest and largest emerging fashion designer prize.
Recently, we saw a local Sydney cancel try to ban LGBTIQ parenting books from libraries, but in the USA and Russia, they have been challenging and banning books at an unprecedented rate. According to the American Library Association, people requested that more than 4,200 titles be removed from public and school libraries in 2023, the highest number in a single year since the ALA started tracking more than 20 years ago.
After heated debate and public protests, Cumberland City Council in Western Sydney has reversed a controversial ban on same-sex parenting books in its libraries. The decision was made with 12 votes in favor and two against, following four hours of intense discussion.
