According to the (American) National Crime Victimisation Survey, the likelihood that an LGBTIQ+ person will experience a violent hate crime is nine times higher than for a cisgender and straight person. There were an average annual 6.6 violent hate crime victimizations per 1,000 LGBTIQ+ people during the last three-year period.
Equality Tasmania has welcomed the State Government's decision to ban Nazi symbols and called on it to go further with more comprehensive hate crime legislation. The Government has announced it will prohibit the display of Nazi symbols including the swastika, following the lead of Victoria and NSW.
Mett Ethan, our FUSE64 cover guy. The buzz around Ethan’s upcoming performance at Canberra’s FreshOut on Saturday 11 March 2023 has got us all pretty excited, so we thought we’d have a quick chat with this fresh faced up-and-coming banger.
Milkshake Festival will return to the Westerpark in Amsterdam in 2023. The Milkshake Festival is not just a dance festival, but one with a clear message where respect, freedom, love, tolerance and fun are of paramount importance.
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Dear Lisa, Coming out is one of the most personal things that a person can do. It opens you up to a range of other people’s emotions, biases, presumptions and prejudices.
To say it’s a tough gig is an understatement. If you ask some who’ve come out, they will tell you that it resulted in people they love rejecting them. For others, the experience was gentle and supportive. It could go either way. When contemplating coming out, you should prepare yourself that not everyone is going to greet the news with a celebration, and some people may hurt you.
Your sexuality is one of the parts of who y…
Netflix has given fans a early 2023 gift and has shared with a never-before-seen clip from Heartstopper season one to celebrate the new year. In March 2022, LGBTQ+ TV enthusiasts were finally treated to the eight-episode young adult series based on Alice Oseman’s graphic novel of the same name.
I Wanna Dance with Somebody charts the life of global superstar Whitney Houston in an epic narrative of talent and struggle. The film lays bare the complexities of her rise and life in the spotlight, including toxic relationships with her parents, substance use and her husband Bobby Brown.
It also depicts Houston’s intimate friendship – and romance – with her early girlfriend, assistant and creative director, Robyn Crawford.
Although Houston’s relationship with Crawford has been public knowledge for some time, biopics of queer musicians from Cole Porter (Night and Day, 1946 and De-Lovely, 2…
German pop sensation and songwriter Kim Petras has been confirmed as a headliner at Sydney WorldPride’s closing concert Rainbow Republic presented by Optus on Sunday 5 March 2023.
