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Pilgrim arrest mars peaceful rally - Sydney Star Observer
Posted by: Admin on Saturday, July 22, 2000 |
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Speakers at the rally included drag identity and host Vanessa Wagner, Rachel Evans from the NoToPope Coalition, ‘78er and City of Sydney Greens candidate Irene Doutney and Metropolitan Community Church Sydney pastor Karl Hand.
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Speech by Irene Doutney - Sydney Council Candidate
Posted by: Admin on Saturday, July 22, 2000 |
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NO TO POPE RALLY – TAYLOR SQUARE – 19/07/08
Irene's speech to the NoToPope rally last Saturday.
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SSO - Senate calls for same-sex submissions
Posted by: William on Tuesday, July 22, 2008 |
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The Senate Committee investigating the first three equality reforms has called for written submissions by 25 July.
Support from incoming Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young will give the Rudd Government the majority it needs to pass the reforms through the committee, but not the Senate.
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The Australian Coalition for Equality’s Corey Irlam explains how you can contribute to the latest campaign for equal rights
Posted by: William on Monday, July 07, 2008 |
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One of the last acts of the Federal Coalition, before losing control of the senate last week, was to send same-sex law reform to an inquiry. This has effectively stalled the Rudd government’s program of delivering equal treatment for same-sex couples, until at least September 30, 2008.
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Celebrating the life of Eleanor Ashley Lister: 28/2/1950 -16/4/2008
Posted by: Fern Lindsay on Monday, November 24, 2008 |
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Surrounded by friends and family her great heart became still. She was one of the kindest most compassionate people I have ever known and a tireless worker for human rights.
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Tas MPs to vote on same-sex marriage
Posted by: William on Monday, June 23, 2008 |
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Tasmania has picked up the baton of same-sex marriage, with the Greens to introduce an enabling bill into the state's parliament.
If successful, Tasmania would become the first state in Australia to have same-sex marriage.
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Queen's honour for gay rights campaigner
Posted by: William on Saturday, June 10, 2000 |
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Melbourne academic and gay rights campaigner Professor Dennis Altman has written a dozen books, is a leading human rights activist and played a major role in the development of HIV/AIDS policy.
For those, and other, achievements he has become a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the Queen's Birthday honours list.
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Liberal Backflip on Delays
Posted by: William on Thursday, June 05, 2008 |
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Liberal leader Brendan Nelson flagged longer Senate delays to the same-sex equality reforms last night.
EQUALITY REFORMS SAFE by Harley Dennett
Sydney Star Observer - Issue 921 - Published 6/05/2008
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HIV cases on the rise again
Posted by: William on Monday, June 05, 2000 |
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THE number of people diagnosed with HIV has risen nearly 40 per cent in six years, new figures show.
There was a 39 per cent increase in the number of people diagnosed with the virus across Australia between 1999 and 2005, according to the research published in the CSIRO’s Sexual Health journal.
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Thanks to Carol Ann King and The Luncheon Club
Posted by: William on Thursday, June 05, 2008 |
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On behalf of The Greens I expressed my thanks and congratulations to the volunteers and the Board of The Luncheon Club. However the highest praise should be reserved for Carol Ann King who provided the inspiration behind the Luncheon Club with fifteen years of dedicated service in support of people living with and affected by HIV/Aids.
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Overcoming Obstacles for GLBT Clients Receiving Mental Healthcare: An Expert Interview With Alicia Lucksted, PhD
Posted by: Eleanor on Friday, March 23, 2007 |
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Medscape Psychiatry & Mental Health. 2007; ©2007 Medscape
Posted 03/09/2007
Editor's Note:
Same-sex relationships and behaviors are very common. According to a 2003 Community Health Survey, conducted by The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, roughly 1 in 10 men in New York indicated that they had had sex with men during the past year, and close to 5% of women stated that they had had sex with women.[1,2] Part of a clinician's job is to ensure that clients are comfortable discussing relationships, desires, behaviors, and identities. On behalf of Medscape, Christian Huygen, PhD, Executive Director, Rainbow Heights Club, a project of Heights-Hill Mental Health Service Community Advisory Board, Brooklyn, New York, spoke with Alicia Lucksted, PhD, Clinical Community Psychologist, Assistant Professor, Psychiatry, University of Maryland Center for Mental Health Services Research, Baltimore, Maryland, about basic guidelines and best practices for working effectively with gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people living with mental illness. Dr. Lucksted's research focuses on improvement of public mental health services for people with serious mental illnesses, self-help interventions among mental health consumers and their family members, qualitative methods in mental health services research, and the experiences and needs of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people in the mental health system.
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Mardi Gras 2007 - Fair Day
Posted by: Tony Hickey on Monday, February 19, 2007 |
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What a fantastic feeling. At Mardi Gras Fair Day 2007 we had hundreds of visitors to the Greens' stall and nearly all of them wrote a letter to their local MP demanding full equality.
The letter urges politicians to support Greens MLC Lee Rhiannon's bill to remove exemptions from the NSW anti-discrimination act, exemptions which allow private schools and small businesses to discriminate on the basis of sexuality and gender identity.
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Candidate is Milestone for Transgender Americans
Posted by: Eleanor on Tuesday, July 25, 2006 |
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From The Detroit News
By Deb Price
Dr. Dana has a prescription for you.
The 54-year-old former eye surgeon believes the glut of lawyers in state legislatures leads to too many chest-thumping confrontations and too little teamwork on such critical things as expanding access to health care, creating incentives for driving environment-friendly cars, boosting the minimum wage and ensuring equality for all. Teachers, engineers, architects and, yes, doctors are what's needed to air out chambers filled with stale ideas, she says.
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The Gay Animal Kingdom
Posted by: Eleanor on Thursday, June 08, 2006 |
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From the JUN/JUL 2006 issue of Seed:
The effeminate sheep & other problems with Darwinian sexual selection.
Joan Roughgarden thinks Charles Darwin made a terrible mistake. Not about natural selection—she's no bible-toting creationist—but about his other great theory of evolution: sexual selection. According to Roughgarden, sexual selection can't explain the homosexuality that's been documented in over 450 different vertebrate species. This means that same-sex sexuality—long disparaged as a quirk of human culture—is a normal, and probably necessary, fact of life. By neglecting all those gay animals, she says, Darwin misunderstood the basic nature of heterosexuality.
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Are trans issues really gay issues?
Posted by: Eleanor on Wednesday, May 31, 2006 |
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Transgendered issues are, indeed, gay issues. In fact, trans issues are the issues that could ultimately save "gay" marriage. The basic premise to the arguments against same-sex marriage is that marriage should be between a man and a woman. The problem is that any arbitrary basis for defining what a "man" is or what a "woman" is is inherently discriminatory to a growing segment of the population.
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Private school teachers' lives anything but private
Posted by: Eleanor on Thursday, May 11, 2006 |
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SMH, May 11, 2006
Employees in non-government schools face very different conditions, write Jane Caro and Lyndsay Connors.
IT IS comforting to be reassured by the Prime Minister that even in the brave new world of his industrial relations changes we remain protected by anti-discrimination legislation. Unless, of course, you are a private school teacher.
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Report on the action in support of the ACT Civil Union Act.
Posted by: Fern Lindsay on Saturday, April 08, 2006 |
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April 8 2006
To my dear friends.
It was a very successful action, boisterous and fun.. Quite amazing for something first conceived on Wednesday night at a CAAH meeting in Sydney
It was beautiful crisp autumn afternoon when we gathered outside the ACT Legislative assembly.
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Once the State Constitution is used to limit freedom, what minority group will be next?
Posted by: Eleanor on Tuesday, March 28, 2006 |
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Minneapolis Star Tribune, MN, USA
March 27, 2006
Amanda Tempel, Vic Rosenthal and Elaine Aron
In a few weeks, Jews will celebrate the holiday of Passover, which commemorates the liberation of the Children of Israel from servitude and oppression in Egypt. This Passover, we are especially concerned about the proposed amendment to the Minnesota Constitution that would permanently bar the state from recognizing same-sex marriages or civil unions. We view this amendment not only as a threat to the freedom of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered Minnesotans, but also a threat to the freedom of all Minnesotan values.
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Mardi Gras 2006
Posted by: Eleanor on Monday, March 20, 2006 |
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Great weather, cool t-shirts, body painting, lots of people, amazing floats ... what's not to like?
This is just 1 woman's view of the parade, from inside ... feel free to comment!
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Rights group calls for gay asylum protection
Posted by: Admin on Friday, March 10, 2006 |
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Wednesday 8 March, 2006
Ben Townley
GAY.COM
An international human rights group is calling on the Dutch government to offer more support to gay asylum seekers, after it announced it will resume deporting them back to Iran.
The Human Rights Watch says the Dutch immigration system should still protect Iranian LGBT asylum seekers, who may face torture and abuse because of their sexuality at home.
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Greens' bill closes archaic loopholes in NSW anti-discrimination legislation
Posted by: kitten on Thursday, October 13, 2005 |
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MEDIA RELEASE - 13 October 2005
Greens MP Lee Rhiannon introduced a bill into the NSW Parliament today that would close legal loopholes that currently allow private schools and small businesses to discriminate against people on the basis of their sexuality, disability, gender, marital status and age.
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2 murder convictions in Araujo case
Posted by: kitten on Monday, September 19, 2005 |
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By Zak Szymanski
z.szymanski@ebar.com
In the end, nobody was truly happy. Despite a legal victory in the Gwen Araujo murder trial, one defendant's future remained uncertain, several families and friends were torn apart, there would be no hate crime enhancements in the case, and nothing, noted Araujo's mother Sylvia Guerrero, would bring Gwen back.
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National Day of Action
Posted by: kitten on Monday, July 25, 2005 |
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A rally for equal recognition of same-sex relationships will take place in Sydney on Saturday 13 August 2005 at 1.00pm commencing at Taylor Square.
The rally is being jointly organised by Australian Marriage Equality, the NSW Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby and Community Action Against Homophobia with the support of many other organisations within the glbti and broader community.
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