Aug 19, 2025
Wellbeing
Achieving an Authentic Life
Are you ready for a happier, healthier you? Andreas Anthony creates a path for achieving an authentic life in these challanging times. Living authentically is not a destination or a thing to do but a continuous journey of honesty, self-discovery and growth.
Aug 18, 2025
FILM & TV
Terence Stamp, star of Priscilla dies aged 87
Today we remember Terence Stamp, star of Priscilla and Superman, who has died aged 87. He was a cinema icon and queer ally. The world of film and the LGBTIQ+ community are mourning the loss of Terence Stamp, the magnetic British actor whose career spanned over six decades and whose performances touched countless lives. Stamp died peacefully in London, surrounded by family and friends.
Aug 18, 2025
GENETICS
Mice Born to Two Male Parents
Scientists have made rapid advancements in genetic engineering and reproductive biology, which could help gay men have biological children in the future. In a remarkable breakthrough, scientists in China have successfully used genetic engineering to create mice with two male parents, marking a significant advancement in reproductive biology.
Aug 16, 2025
CBR | 15 Nov
Canberra Bushdance 2025
Bushdance is Canberra’s largest LGBTIQ+ event and is back for another fabulous year! Held at the Yarralumla Woolshed, it is a fun night of dancing with people of all flavours
Aug 15, 2025
CBR | 29 NOV
One Night In Heaven #2 at The Vault
SPRINGOUT prestents One Night In Heaven 2 at The Vault with heaven DJ's all night long, drag queens and kings, performance art, tributes to the past, loved performers, gay anthems, handbag house, club bangers, techno-house, and explorations of the heavenly rave beginnings.
Aug 11, 2025
Mental Health
How can I tell if I am lonely? What are some of the signs?
Without even realising it, your world sometimes gradually gets smaller: less walking, fewer days in the office, cancelling on friends. Watching plans disintegrate on the chat as friends struggle to settle on a date or place for a catch-up. You might start to feel a bit flat or disconnected. Subtle changes in habit and mood take hold. Could you be … lonely?
Aug 8, 2025
USA
The USA has been added to the Global Human Rights Watchlist
The United States, long viewed as a global leader in democracy and human rights, has been added to the CIVICUS Monitor Watchlist, a list reserved for countries experiencing significant declines in civil liberties. This development, which unfolded in March 2025 under President Donald Trump’s second term, sends ripples far beyond America’s borders, including through Australia’s own LGBTIQ communities.
Aug 8, 2025
Fashion
Slutty little glasses’: men’s eyewear fashion is the history of seeing – and being seen
If you’ve been on the internet lately, chances are you’ve heard an intriguing – and perhaps even startling – descriptor applied to men’s eyewear: “slutty little glasses”. Coined by online creator and culture critic Blakely Thornton, the term was earlier used to describe the fashionable wire-framed specs sported by actor Jonathan Bailey’s character in the film Jurassic World Rebirth. Lately it’s been applied to a broader range of men’s glasses.
Aug 8, 2025
FILM
50 Years of The Rocky Horror Picture Show
It’s astounding – time really is fleeting. In 1975, a spark from Australia’s creative underground ignited a wildfire of rebellion, expression and belonging. Fifty years on, The Rocky Horror Picture Show still pulses with the same energy, testament to both the wild, loud powerhouses behind its genius, and the rituals that have become folded into the film’s very being.
A JUMP TO THE LEFT. WHO GETS TO BELONG?
Australia in the 1970s was on the cusp of radical change, grappling with ideas of self-expression, gender, identity and sexuality. Into this upheaval burst a strange and irreverent little…