A huge thank you to Queer Screen. The Mardi Gras Film Festival brought a celebration of the diversity of sexualities and gender identities through queer storytelling on the screen filled with creativity, inspiration and pride.
The push for same-sex marriage in India has stalled with the government and courts opposing marriage rights and equality to gay and lesbian couples. Activists have told media outlets that the fight for equal rights goes on!
A new bill to end harmful practices in medical settings to be introduced in the ACT. The ACT Government has just introduced Australia’s first laws to protect intersex people from unnecessary medical interventions without their consent.
Anti-transgender hatred is on the rise. Driven by pseudoscience and backed by well-funded far-right pressure groups, part of the premise of the anti-trans “gender critical” movement is that trans people are new and unnatural. History shows us this is not the case.
FreshOut was a fabulous one-day outdoor event in Glebe Park filled with entertainment from Australia’s finest performing artists, a village of market stalls representing our diverse community organisations and local businesses, plus a showcase of Canberra’s finest food and wines produced within the region.
‘Of An Age’, the latest film from wunderkind Macedonian-Australian Director Goran Stolevski is essential viewing. This intensely moving queer love story is markedly different in tone to his previous effort, the elevated art-house horror film ‘You Won’t be Alone’.
Streaming giant Netflix announced that it wouldn’t be renewing its Neil Patrick Harris-led romantic comedy series Uncoupled, just six months after the first season premiered. the show has recently been saved by Showtime!
The Chief Minister of the ACT Andrew Barr has announced the ACT will pass legislation to protect people with sex variations. The new legislation will be introduced in the ACT Parliament later this month.
US: In bizarre news, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and a possible US presidential candidate has appointed a homophobic religious zealot who thinks tap water will turn you gay.