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Meet the Brisbane bodybuilding drag queen set to make history
Meet Jake, also known as Tara Zann. Later this year they are about to embark on a bodybuilding world first. After much research, it appears Jake will be the first bodybuilder to compete whilst in drag, in the world. While there are several bodybuilding drag queens around the world, it appears none do so whilst …
Matildas captain Sam Kerr responds to former player’s shock allegations
Matildas captain Sam Kerr (pictured left) has described the national women’s soccer team as her “safe haven” as players respond to former Matildas star Lisa De Vanna’s allegations of historical sexual harassment and bullying. De Vanna (pictured right), a former Matildas striker, played 150 games between 2001 and 2019. Last week, she alleged she suffered …
Tom Daley wants countries with gay death penalty banned from Olympics
British diver Tom Daley has said he’s on a “mission” to prevent countries where being gay is punishable by death from competing in the Olympics. Daley won his first gold medal at the Tokyo Olympic Games in July. Speaking at UK LGBTIQ publication Attitude’s 2021 awards ceremony, Daley declared he’ll campaign for the Olympics to …
Why We Have Yet To See An Openly Gay AFL Player?
Where Are All The Gay AFL Players? The 2021 Olympics was a huge moment for LGBTQ+ sports, with at least 186 openly LGBTQ+ athletes in attendance. This, alongside Carl Nassib of the Las Vegas Raiders’ recent announcement that he is gay, has sparked questions about AFL players who are gay or bisexual. While LGBTQ+ rugby …
Sam Stosur wins US Open trophy on special anniversary
Brisbane-born tennis champ Sam Stosur has won another title at the US Open, exactly 10 years after famously beating Serena Williams in the 2011 US Open singles. Australian Sam Stosur and China’s Zhang Shuai were named the 2021 women’s doubles champion at the US Open on Sunday, US time. The pair beat teenage opponents Coco …
Queer Aussie Robyn Lambird wins medal in Paralympics debut
Queer Australian Paralympian Robyn Lambird has scored a bronze medal in wheelchair racing in their Paralympics debut in Tokyo. On Sunday afternoon, the non-binary wheelchair racer placed third in the women’s 100m T34 final, behind Britain’s Hannah Cockroft who won gold. Lambird, who is from Western Australia, is one of three non-binary athletes competing at …
Brisbane Hustlers Rugby Union team stronger than ever
Since the COVID-19 pandemic hit our shores back in March 2020, we have seen thousands of Australians doing it tough. Consequently, 2021 has been a time to push on and rebuild for many, and the Brisbane Hustlers Rugby Union team are no exception. Since getting back into the swing of things, the Brisbane Hustlers have …
Cricketer Megan Schutt and her wife celebrate ‘miracle’ newborn
Australian cricket star Megan Schutt and wife Jess Holyoake have welcomed their first child after an emergency C-section at just 28 weeks and six days. Schutt announced Jess had given birth to baby Rylee Louise last Tuesday, with the newborn weighing just 858 grams. “Our little miracle was born via emergency C-section,” Schutt wrote. “From …
Formula 1 boss ‘murdered by husband who found her with woman’
The boss of a Formula 1 racing circuit in Belgium, Nathalie Maillet, has been shot dead by her husband in a horror murder-suicide. Police found the 51-year-old dead alongside an alleged lover, Ann Lawrence Durviaux, at Maillet’s home in Gouvy, Belgium, on Sunday (August 15). Belgian authorities claimed Maillet’s husband of 17 years, Franz Dubois, …
Matildas soccer star Chloe Logarzo gets engaged to partner
Australian women’s soccer player Chloe Logarzo and her partner McKenzie Berryhill have gotten engaged just days after reuniting post-Olympics. Logarzo (above far left), from Sydney, plays for both Australia’s national women’s team the Matildas, and a Kansas City team in the USA. The 26-year-old was one of dozens of openly LGBTIQ athletes in the women’s …