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Category: Opinion

Rainbow Flag Crowd APN TC

We need to count LGBTI communities in the next census – here’s w...

October 15 - News, Opinion
There’s an old maxim: not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. But there are some things we should count, and gender and sexual diversity are among them. The Australian Bu...
Dennis Altman in Santa Cruz California in 1984

My brush with Susan Sontag and other tales from the gay ‘golden ...

August 17 - News, Opinion
The years between the gay liberation movement at the beginning of the 1970s and the onset of AIDS a decade later are viewed in a certain strand of gay nostalgia as “the golden age”. It’s hardly surprising that those who ...
James Eades, Dallas Dellaforce, Queer Central, Imperial Hotel, Erskineville, 2018 (detail).

An intimate, arresting exhibition highlights the hard work of living q...

June 13 - Arts & Entertainment, Opinion, Visual Arts
Queerdom, an exhibition showing at the Imperial Hotel in Erksineville, is an arresting and unsettling archive of queer and trans performances in Sydney. A collaboration between photographer Jamie James and poet Quinn Ead...
Emilia Clarke as Daenerys Targaryen in season 8 of Game of Thrones - courtesy of HBO

Game of Thrones: dangerous world where LGBTQ characters die young or r...

April 22 - Arts & Entertainment, News, Opinion
Game of Thrones is back. The most-watched show from HBO in nearly half a century is in its home straight after seven years – and the last six episodes will be among the most expensive television ever made. Given the way ...
MICF19 Hannah Gadsby Douglas

Hannah Gadsby’s follow-up to Nanette is an act of considered sel...

April 1 - Arts & Entertainment, Events, Opinion
Hannah Gadsby’s new show, Douglas, is not earth-shattering the way Nanette was; but then, nothing could be. Many of us watched with fascination as Gadsby’s tenth solo show, Nanette, took her from a local niche market in ...
MGM Dorothy's shoes in The Wizard of Oz AAR

Why Dorothy’s red shoes deserve their status as gay icons, even ...

March 13 - News, Opinion
The legendary film, The Wizard of Oz (1939) and the glorious, dazzling ruby slippers worn by its heroine, Dorothy Gale, (played by Judy Garland), have long been symbols of hope – especially for the LGBT+ community....
The Conversation YES Vote APN

New research reveals how the marriage equality debate damaged LGBT Aus...

January 30 - News, Opinion
Although Australia has now achieved marriage equality, the topics of sexuality and gender identity continue to spark heated – and often discriminatory – public debates. Most recently, the issues of religious ...
Love Makes a Family_I'm Australian Too

Eight Australian picture books that celebrate family diversity

January 14 - Books, News, Opinion
The official label used by the Australian government to define a traditional family (a two parent family with biological or adopted children only) is “intact”: Not damaged or impaired in any way. Complete. Whole. Unbroke...
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