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Top News Stories in Issue 239 are...

Pope Benedict attacks same-sex marriage, New HIV medication to ease 'Pill Burden', Help Haiti's gays, Glee is the word for Olivia and Gold Coast Gay Day set for May!

Also in the current issue of QNews...

Will you be my Valentine at Fluffy?, Brisbane Pride 2010: Love Our Way, Queer Press finally welcomed to Valley Metro and much, much more!  Also, catch up with scene pics, stars, reviews and our brand new business directory.

HELP HAITI'S GAYS

The leader of Haiti’s largest HIV service for men who have sex with men, has sent an impassioned plea for help to the world’s gay and lesbian community.
Among the approximate 200,000 killed in last week’s devastating earthquakes were a number of workers and members from SEROvie, Haiti’s main support group for local MSM and transgender community.

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CENTRELINK TO ATTEMPT COMPASSION

Older gay and lesbian couples and people living in rural areas will be treated with compassion in their dealings with Centrelink, federal Minister for Housing and Community Services Jenny Macklin has written to a coalition of community groups.

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NEW HIV MEDICATION TO EASE 'PILL BURDEN'

In an Australian first, people living with HIV now have access to a medicine which combines three treatments into a once-daily tablet for the cost of a single PBS (Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme) prescription.

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GOLD COAST GAY DAY SET FOR MAY

Excitement is building on the Gold Coast for the LGBT community with the announcement of Gold Coast Gay Day being staged at Parklands in May 2010.
“Everyone is talking about our new home at Parklands” said Roni from the organising committee.

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COVER PROFILE: DAVINA JONES

NAME: Davina Jones
DECADE YOU WERE BORN IN:
70’s… late 70’s
STAR SIGN: Sagittarius
NICKNAME: Dave, Dav, D
LIVES: I’m onto my 12th… kidding. Moorooka.
DREAM JOB: Photographer, or travel writer.

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COUNSELLING GAYS AND LESBIANS

Having access to good quality counselling can be incredibly important for almost everyone at some stage of their lives. Anyone who’s had good counselling can tell you how well it works.

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10 GREAT WAYS TO SAY I LOVE YOU (ON THE CHEAP)

The festive season is over and no doubt the bank accounts are low, but wouldn’t you know it, another celebration is on the way. Valentines Day is just around the corner but who says Valentines Day has to be expensive?

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SHOW CELEBRATES ONE COLOURFUL IDENTITY

Are you ready for a theatre experience like no other? Are you ready to be shocked, surprised, to learn and to understand how family, culture and every experience makes us who we are?

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MR Q HEATING UP

After the first three heats of Mr Q Search for a Cover Boy, there are just four heats remaining and the competition is hotting up with unprecedented applications for the remaining heats.


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WILL YOU BE MY VALENTINE AT FLUFFY?

Sunday 14 February is Valentines Day – a day for love. And what we are loving this year is Fluffy’s massive Valentine’s Day Party!
We are loving the fact that Inaya Day is going to be in the house, direct from the US to sing her hits ‘The Glamorous Life’, ‘Nasty Girl’, and ‘I am the 1’.

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GLEE IS THE WORD FOR OLIVIA

Olivia Newton John is certainly no stranger to playing the uncool kid at school who knows how to belt out a tune, but TV land is abuzz with the news that Sandra D is about to be swapped for the kids of Glee.

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KEEPING THE DANCE ALIVE

In 2010, Queensland Ballet celebrates 50 years of bringing quality dance performances to audiences everywhere. As part of their Golden Anniversary, the company has commissioned a very special publication to mark this significant milestone in Queensland’s rich arts history – KEEPING THE DREAM ALIVE: Fifty Years of the Queensland Ballet Company.

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BRISBANE PRIDE
2010: LOVE OUR WAY

Brisbane Pride Festival has announced that the theme for the 2010 Brisbane Pride Festival is Love Our Way, and is inviting community groups, businesses and individuals to submit an application to hold an event as part of the month long festival to be held in June.

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QUEER PRESS FINALLY WELCOMED TO VALLEY METRO

At last QNews readers will have a place to find a copy of QNews at the Valley Metro, which leads into Fortitude Valley train station. The Valley has long been a major hub of LGBT activity in Brisbane, which is why it is so surprising that the Valley Metro has for years been so adverse to allowing queer press into its premises.

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100% SYNTHETIQUE

Being on a stage in front of thousands of people would be a pretty daunting experience for most people, but for Big Gay Day hostess Miss Synthetique, the BGD stage has almost become a second home.

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QAHC ‘FOOD FOR THOUGHT GATHERINGS’

Gay men’s relationships, sexual pleasures and the male sexual body, cruising places to meet other men for social, sexual and romantic needs ...all these topics are food for thought.

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An excellent speech from a 17 year old regarding gay rights and his thoughts on marriage from the Vermont Senate Marriage Hearings. Bravo young man!!

CLICK HERE to see the speech on YouTube!

A video clip of Philip Spooner, a soldier who fought in the Second World War, has become an internet hit after he spoke out for gay rights.

Spooner was addressing the Maine Judiciary Committee in April. The state legalised gay marriage in May and the law was due to come into effect on September 12th but gay marriage opponents have delayed the law. State voters will decide next month whether same-sex marriage should be legal.

His voice frequently cracking, Spooner addressed the hall: “Good morning committee. My name is Philip Spooner. I am 86 years old and a lifetime Republican.”

He said: “I am here because of a conversation I had last June, when I was voting. The woman at my polling place asked me, do I believe in equality for gay and lesbian people.

“I was pretty surprised to be asked a question like that. It made no sense to me. Finally I asked her: what do you think I fought for in Omaha Beach?”

As applause broke out, he said that equality was one of the values of the "great nation" of America and was worth dying for.

The veteran, who was present at the D-Day landing, said he and his late wife have four sons, one of whom is gay. All have served in the US military.

He said: "My wife and I did not raise four sons with the idea that three of them would have certain rights and that the fourth of them would be left out.”

"I was raised to believe all men are created equal,” he added, “and I have never forgotten that."

“It makes no sense that some people who love each other can marry and others can’t, just because of who they are."


Watch this young man perform a duet with himself - because he has no friends! Well worth watching!

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