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ACON Calls On Google To Pull ‘Gay Conversion’ App From Online Store
New South Wales LGBTIQ organisation ACON has called on Google to remove an “extremely damaging” app from its online store that promotes harmful “gay conversion” practices. Living Hope Ministries, the US-based Christian organisation behind the app, refers to gay and transgender people as “sexually broken” individuals and claims the “gay lifestyle is spiritually and physically …
How NSW Inquiry Into LGBTIQ Hate Crime Could Improve Police Responses
By Andy Kaladelfos, UNSW; Bianca Fileborn, UNSW; Lisa Featherstone, UQ; Shirleene Robinson, Macquarie University, and Yorick Smaal, Griffith University Lessons learnt from a NSW parliamentary inquiry into hate crimes against Australia’s LGBTIQ community could change the way police and communities respond to complaints, and acknowledge the continued impact of past injustices. The inquiry is the …
Memorial Artwork To Remember Victims Of Gay Hate Violence In Sydney
A permanent memorial artwork recognising the victims of gay hate violence in New South Wales has been given council approval and funding. From the 1970s to 1990s, many gay men were assaulted, robbed and in some cases murdered along the coastal walk from Sydney’s Bondi Beach to Tamarama (pictured), including at former gay beat Marks …
Pioneering LGBTIQ Group CAMP Inc To Be Honoured With Special Accolade
The groundbreaking work of one of Australia’s first political organisations for gay and lesbian people, CAMP Inc, will be recognised with a special award next month. The Honour Awards is an annual fundraising benefit held in Sydney which celebrates outstanding service and achievements in New South Wales’s LGBTIQ community. CAMP Inc, otherwise known as the …
Sydney’s Dark History Of Gay Hate Murders Revealed In New Report
A review of 88 suspicious deaths in Sydney over three decades has found that 27 men were likely to have been the victims of gay hate crimes. Strike Force Parrabell was established in 2015 to review 88 deaths between 1976 and 2000 which researchers highlighted as having potential gay-hate bias motivation or connection with the …
Tributes Flow For Pioneering Australian HIV Researcher Professor David Cooper
LGBTIQ health advocates are mourning the death of pioneering HIV researcher and Kirby Institute director Professor David Cooper. Credited with diagnosing some of the first cases of HIV in Australia, Professor Cooper passed away at age 69 on Sunday after a short illness. He was appointed the inaugural director of the Kirby Institute – then …
‘Never Again’: Extent Of Anti-Gay Abuse During Postal Survey Revealed
Marriage equality campaigners have revealed the shocking extent of the anti-gay abuse they received during last year’s marriage law postal survey. In a submission to a Senate inquiry looking at the process of the postal survey, including the government’s protections against offensive material and behaviour, The Equality Campaign included numerous examples of the abusive messages …
Giant Erection Spreads HIV Safety Message
A massive 18-metre tall condom will cover one of Sydney’s landmarks for the next seven days as part of a bold new HIV prevention campaign. The giant hot pink condom will sheath the heritage-listed Hyde Park Obelisk, located at the intersection of Elizabeth St and Bathurst St in the CBD. For a week, the installation …