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21.10.2021 / 02:35

Fab Jab: LGBT Community Steps Up To Get Vaccinated At Pride Centre

Victoria will emerge from its sixth lockdown later this week, in large part due to the high vaccination rates across the state.

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20.10.2021 / 23:37

Hobart Council Criticised For Renting Out Town Hall For Anti-Transgender Forum

Hobart City Council has received criticism from a number of trans rights advocates after it was revealed that Women Speak Tasmania, a group that likens the transgender community to a “cult” and a “social contagion”, have booked Hobart Town Hall for an upcoming public forum on November 27.The concerns were first raised by Hobart Councillor Jax Fox, who told Star Observer that when the event was first booked for back in August, they adamantly tried shut it down but were told there, “wasn’t the policies or procedures in place to do that and that they didn’t want any media attention.”“I had a meeting with the CEO last week and asked about it and was told it had been cancelled.

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20.10.2021 / 05:11

Zoe Terakes Is First Non Binary Actor In Consideration For Best Lead Actor AACTA Award

Ellie And Abbie (& Abbie’s Dead Aunt) which premiered as the opening night film at last year’s Mardi Gras Queer Screen Film Festival.Directed and written by Monica Zanetti, Terakes plays the role of Abbie, the love interest of Year 12 student and school captain Ellie (Sophie Hawkshaw). As the first Australian feature film to open the festival in 27 years, it went on to a nationwide release in November last year.“I’m not a woman, but I also don’t feel entirely like a man,” Terakes told If.

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18.10.2021 / 04:13

Brooklyn Cop Shoots Her Ex-Girlfriend, Kills Another Woman

An off-duty Brooklyn cop has confessed to shooting her ex-girlfriend and killing another woman.Yvonne Wu of Brooklyn’s 72nd Precinct was charged with the attempted murder of her ex-girlfriend Jenny Li (23) and the murder of Li’s new girl friend 24-year-old Jamie Liang.Warning: This story has details of a murder and might be distressing to some readers. For 24 hour crisis support and suicide prevention call Lifeline on 13 11 14. For Australia-wide LGBTQI peer support call QLife on 1800 184 527 or webchat.The 31-year old police officer was allegedly at her ex-girlfriend’s home in Bensonhurst on October 13, waiting for the two women to arrive. She allegedly shot Liang in the chest in the living room and then shot her ex-girlfriend in the torso

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18.10.2021 / 01:25

Mourning Brooches & Blue Plaques: Celebrating Australia’s Hidden Queer Heritage

Star Observer. “We think that kind of intimacy, without knowing who did what with their genitals, is part of what feeds into our sense of who we are (as queer people) and what we value in the past.”A History of LGBTIQ+ Victoria in 100 Places and Objects, prepared earlier this year by the Australian Queer Archives (AQuA) and commissioned by Heritage Victoria, is the first such report of its kind in Australia.

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17.10.2021 / 00:01

Elton John Scores First Number One Single In 16 Years With ‘Cold Heart’

Elton John scored a musical milestone this week when his latest single, Cold Heart (PNAU remix), a collaboration with Dua Lipa, and Australian dance music trio PNAU, topped the UK singles chart. Sir Elton now holds the distinction of being the first artist to chart a top ten single in the UK in each of the past six decades.

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12.10.2021 / 01:29

Tom Daley Wants Olympics To Ban Countries Where Being Gay Is Punishable By Death

Out British diver Tom Daley is on a “mission” to get the Olympics to ban countries where homosexuality is punishable by death.While accepting the Sport Award at the 2021 Attitude Awards, the Tokyo Olympics gold medalist said he would like to see these changes made before the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.“I think it’s really important to try and create change, rather than just highlighting or shining a light on those things,” Daley said.At the Tokyo Olympics, there were more out Olympians than any other games with at least 186 openly identifying as LGBTQI, but according to Human Dignity Trust there are still 11 countries were homosexuality is punishable by death.There is also a further 60 countries where same-sex relations are criminalised in

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11.10.2021 / 05:21

‘Coming Out In The 1970s Was Fraught With Barriers And Challenges’

Early CAMP pioneers Kym Skinner and Kierrynn Davis. Photos: Richard Hedger.I had known I was a lesbian from an early age.

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11.10.2021 / 01:41

Vax The Nation: Courtney Act Wants You To Get Vaccinated

Star Observer, is “It’s time to get vaccinated, if you haven’t already, because it’s the only way we are going to be able to return to live music, theatre, gay bars, clubs, pubs and drag shows and all the things that we love.’“If one of the artists involved with the vaccination program is somebody that audiences look up to, and they start talking about getting vaccinated and focusing on those positive sides, then hopefully it will encourage more people to go out and do it,” Act says. “We know Australians are rushing out and getting vaccinated, which is really exciting, but we don’t want to see those numbers stall.” Photo: Joseph SinclairAct, a vocal advocate for vaccination, says, “I think it’s personal for all of us.

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08.10.2021 / 08:17

Vandals Deface Adelaide’s Rainbow Pride Walk With Homophobic Graffiti

Warning: The story has details of alleged homophobic vandalism. For 24 hour crisis support and suicide prevention call Lifeline on 13 11 14. For Australia-wide LGBTQI peer support call QLife on 1800 184 527 or webchat.Adelaide’s Pride Walk, established in 2016, commemorates key milestones in South Australia’s journey towards LGBTQI equality, and has since become a prominent and celebrated feature of Light Square.Snape told Star Observer that they discovered the vandalism when they were walking to a community AGM about 5.30pm on Thursday,“I walked through the path as I normally do and saw it there in rather large writing.”“As a newly elected councillor, I thought I would alert council about it, but also make a post about it.

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05.10.2021 / 10:47

Playboy Faces Backlash For First Gay Man Cover

Social media star and beauty influencer, Bretman Rock, has made history as the first Out gay man to appear on the cover of Playboy.

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04.10.2021 / 10:27

Annual Australian LGBTQI Women’s Health Conference Goes Virtual

Australian experts, researchers, advocates, health professionals and members of the community will converge online on November 4 as the 5th annual LGBTIQ Women’s Health Conference kicks off.

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04.10.2021 / 01:05

Wonder Woman Lynda Carter Mistakes ‘Fat Bear Week’, Bears Respond With Love

Wonder Woman 1984, made the perfectly honest mistake of thinking that Fat Bear Week was a “celebration of body positivity” for gay bears!I loved you when I was 12, and this is why I still love you now.— A Life of Michael

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03.10.2021 / 11:31

LGBT Community Absent In Oxford Street Revitalisation Plan

Should Oxford Street be preserved as a historic, cultural, commercial and tourist precinct for the LGBTQI community?To mark the Star Observer’s 42nd anniversary we are hosting a panel discussion on the future of Oxford Street.

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30.09.2021 / 13:11

Brisbane Pride Rally, March And Fair Day Postponed

Queensland had recorded six new locally acquired cases of coronavirus bringing the state’s total cases to 22. Queensland Health said that a 75 percent capacity limit would be put in place for large events.Queensland was potentially on the verge of yet another lockdown.

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30.09.2021 / 03:01

South Australian Man Pleads Guilty To Medibank Scam, Blames ‘Gay Scene’

has reported.Dwayne Antojado was found to have fled to Melbourne in 2017 after skipping parole in South Australia. In Melbourne he set up 109 false identities to open Medibank accounts between October 2018 and December 2019.

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29.09.2021 / 11:29

Bill For Mandatory LGBT Education In Primary Schools Passed In Youth Parliament

Six young students from Westbourne Grammar in Melbourne’s west have fought for compulsory LGBTQIA+ education in primary schools.Their Compulsory LGBTQIA+ Education for Primary School Students Bill 2021 was passed in the YMCA Victorian Youth Parliament last week. YMCA’s Victorian Youth Parliament is a program consisting of 120 young people who come together to debate bills that they have written themselves. The bills that get passed in the Parliament are then handed onto the Minister for Youth for consideration. This is the second LGBTQI+ bill that was passed in the Youth Parliament.

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27.09.2021 / 03:19

Ja, Ich Will: Switzerland Votes To Legalise Same-Sex Marriages

On Sunday, the Swiss overwhelmingly voted to legalise same-sex marriages, with almost two thirds or 64.1% approving the measure. The “Ja, ich will!” or ‘Yes, I do’ campaign, which was also the official slogan of Switzerland’s “Marriage for All” movement, resonated with most voters. All 23 cantons or states in Switzerland voted in favour of marriage equality.The referendum brings Switzerland in line with many other western European countries, leaving Italy as the only country where same-sex marriages are still outlawed.Switzerland, final results:National referendum on Marriage For All Act (same sex couple can wed with same rights as heterosexuals i.e.

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26.09.2021 / 03:03

London Man Jailed For Raping and Robbing Gay Men He Met On Grindr

The Wood Green Crown Court heard that through the investigation into these two separate attacks, Goodey was also linked to a third attack. This third attack took place in Lambeth in January 2020.

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24.09.2021 / 12:41

Sydney Hairdresser Pleads Guilty To Slapping Stonewall Hotel Security Guard

The Daily Telegraph reported that being refused entry to the venue set McKenzie off. He verbally abused the security, saying to them that they were a “fucking cunt”.

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22.09.2021 / 11:37

Tom Ford’s Husband Richard Buckley Passes Away At 72

It is with great sadness that Tom Ford announces the death of his beloved husband of 35 years, Richard Buckley. Richard passed away peacefully at their home in Los Angeles on Sunday night with Tom & their son Jack by his side.

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21.09.2021 / 11:17

Oxford Street Building Housing Burdekin Hotel Listed For Sale

Four years after the building at 2-4 Oxford Street, Darlinghurst, housing popular LGBTQI+ venue Burdekin Hotel was sold, its owners have listed the properties on the market for a private sale. After purchasing the building around four years ago, the owners had only recently completed multimillion dollar renovations on the property last year, including the addition of a rooftop bar, a first for Oxford Street.Confirming the news, Kevin Kaila, Burdekin’s Operations manager told Star Observer that only the buildings at 2-4 Oxford St were for sale. Earlier this month, buildings at 4-24 Flinders Street, 2 Sturt Street & 4-10 Taylor Street Darlinghurst currently home to Arq Nightclub and Bodyline Sauna were listed on the market, earlier this

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17.09.2021 / 02:57

Hugh Sheridan Talked A Brisbane Man Out Of Ending Their Own Life

Kyle and Jackie O Show on Wednesday. Warning: This story has details of a suicide attempt and might be distressing to some readers. For 24 hour crisis support and suicide prevention call Lifeline on 13 11 14. For Australia-wide LGBTQI peer support call QLife on 1800 184 527 or webchat. A post shared by Hugh Sheridan (@hugh_sheridan)Sheridan was there spruiking the return/reboot of Packed to the Rafters to Australian television, titled Back to the Rafters, and took the opportunity to share with millions of people, that time they talked a well-dressed man out of ending his own life. “I was walking down the street, it was quite late,” the actor explained.“I saw this guy and I had a feeling because he was sitting weird.

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15.09.2021 / 11:17

Church Urged To Consider Sainthood For Gay 9/11 Hero Fr. Mychal Judge

Saturday marked the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks in New York City, where 2,977 people lost their lives. Amongst the many heroes was the Brooklyn-born priest, Mychal Judge, who also happened to be the first recorded victim of 9/11. Judge worked with helping vulnerable people, but also served as chaplain of the New York Fire Department.

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14.09.2021 / 10:31

Trans Teen Nikki Kuhnhausen’s Killer Sentenced To 20 Years In Prison

Warning: This story has details of violence against a trans person and might be distressing to some readers. Twenty-seven-year-old David Bogdanov had contacted Kuhnhausen though Snapchat and the pair had arranged to meet up for a “sexual encounter”. Bogdanov later went on to claim in police interviews to being “really, really, disturbed” when he learned Kuhnhausen was trans.Bogdanov who was 25 at the time, claimed that Kuhnhausen had reached for her gun, forcing him to a wrap a phone charger around her shoulders to pull her away.

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13.09.2021 / 10:37

Gay Missouri Teacher Asked To Hide His Sexuality, Quits

A gay teacher in Missouri has resigned from his position after the school asked him to sign a letter asking him to hide his sexuality.John Wallis, who taught speech, theatre and world mythology at Neosho Junior High School, announced on that parents complained that the 22-year-old teacher would teach their child to be gay because Wallis had a Pride flag in his classroom.At the beginning of the school year, I had two signs above my whiteboards that read "In This Classroom EVERYONE is Welcome" and an LGBTQ+ pride flag on my bookshelf.2/— John M. Wallis (He/Him) (@MrJWallis) September 5, 2021“I was then instructed to take my flag and signs down.

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13.09.2021 / 06:39

Out Australian Tennis Star Samantha Stosur Wins US Open Women’s Doubles Title

Australia’s out tennis star Samantha Stosur marked the 10th anniversary of her US Open singles title win with a women’s doubles crown at the US Open championships with her Chinese partner Zhang Shuai. Thirty-seven-year-old Stosur and Shuai (32), defeated teen sensations Coco Gauff and Caty McNally 6-3 3-6 6-3 on Sunday in an exciting women’s doubles final at Flushing Meadow. “We were playing against a couple of youngsters who even though they’re so young, have got quite a bit of experience, they just play fearless,” Stosur said after the match. For Stosur, Sunday’s win also marked 10 years since one of her greatest triumphs, winning the US Open women’s singles final in 2011 against Serena Williams. Brisbane-born Stosur, who has won eight

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11.09.2021 / 11:13

Queer Horror Flick ‘Death Drop Gorgeous’ Has It All

Death Drop Gorgeous is an LGBTQI slasher flick and screened in over 20 film festivals during 2020 including The Wicked Queer: Boston LGBT Film Festival, The Hollywood HorrorFest and the Salem Horror Festival, collecting several awards along the way.Two detectives are investigating the case and announce, “Looks like we got ourselves a serial fag killing vampire!” The suspect may be working at a local drag club.

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08.09.2021 / 05:37

‘I’d Love To Be A Father,’ Says Ian Thorpe

The Herald Sun that despite breaking up with his partner Ryan Channing in 2019, he’d still “love to be a father at some stage.’“I’d love the kids in the pool, but I’d love playing in the pool and if they happen to like something else, I am happy with that as well.”The focus of the interview was on the recently released film Streamline, which credits Thorpe as an executive producer.

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07.09.2021 / 10:43

VIC’s New Liberal Leader Matthew Guy Has A Mixed Record On LGBT Rights

At the time, Guy made it known that Victorian Liberals believed school children should focus more on reading, writing and maths instead of learning “a politically correct gender and sexuality agenda”“Programs like Safe Schools add to curriculum clutter and impose a politically correct gender and sexuality agenda on schools,” a statement released by the Victorian Liberals in the lead up the election stated.“We view your organisation with distaste and see it as a sign of a very sick society suffering from severe moral decay,” read the letter from the La Trobe University Students’ Representatives Council, co-signed by Guy in 1994.“It is a shame that organisations such as yours exist,” the letter continued to say.While Guy would later

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05.09.2021 / 02:01

Queer Screen Film Festival Goes Digital

With both Sydney and Melbourne in lockdown, what better time to dive head first into this year’s Queer Screen Film Festival than right now. This year the festival is presenting some 40 films from 17 countries, in 18 different spoken languages, and with no less than 22 Australian premieres.As Festival Director Lisa Rose explains, “although this this is the third time we have offered something online and Australia wide, it is actually our first ever completely online festival, which is exciting because it’s something different to do.“Everyone in our community has been impacted by the pandemic in some way and we are delighted to create an online festival to help us through these times.“People are really hanging out to watch something new and

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03.09.2021 / 11:03

ABBA Reunites To Release First New Music After Forty Years

They’re back! Forty years after going their separate ways, ABBA, the Swedish supergroup who became a worldwide phenomenon, has reunited to release new music and to promote a long-planned virtual concert. The band, which has sold over 400 million albums, released two new songs on September 3 – I Still Have Faith in You, and Don’t Shut Me Down – both of which appear on their upcoming album Voyage, set for release on November 5. Band members Bjorn Ulvaeus, 76, Benny Andersson, 74, Anni-Frid “Frida” Lyngstad, 75, and Agnetha Fältskog, 71, had rejected past offers to regroup, including an offer in 2000, which was rumoured to be in excess of one billion dollars, for a 100 show world tour.

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02.09.2021 / 13:03

Churches Make Last Ditch Attempt To Stop NZ Gay Conversion ‘Therapy’ Ban

Self-appointed bishop Brian Tamaki and the Destiny Church have launched a campaign to stop the New Zealand government from passing laws that would provide further protections for LGBTQIA+ people.An article that Tamaki wrote on August 12 this year titled ‘Are We Being Bullied & Overpowered By A Gay Agenda?’ has recently been circulating around on social media.In the piece, Tamaki speaks out against the Self Identification Bill, which would allow trans and gender diverse people to change their pronouns on their birth certificate and the Conversion ‘therapy’ ban bill. Founder of the Conversion Therapy Action Group New Zealand , Shaneel Lal said they noticed that followers of Tamaki’s church have been promoting this article in the comments

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02.09.2021 / 02:45

Morrison Government Votes Against Transgender Workplace Protections

The Liberal Party, led by PM Scott Morrison, on Wednesday voted against an amendment to the Fair Work Act that would have protected trans, gender diverse and intersex persons from discrimination at the work place. LGBTQI+ rights activists questioned the Morrison government for its decision to vote down the changes to the law as part of the [email protected] package that were proposed by Greens senator Janet Rice.

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31.08.2021 / 11:59

JoJo Siwa Makes History In First Same-Sex Pairing On ‘Dancing With The Stars’

In a first for the US version of Dancing With The Stars, dancer, singer and YouTube personality JoJo Siwa will be part of the first ever same-sex dance team to compete on the show. While Siwa is making history for the USA version, same-sex couples have been featured on other international franchises of the show, including Italy, Israel, Ireland, and Denmark (where Jakob Fauerby and Silas Holst took home the Mirrorball trophy).

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31.08.2021 / 07:21

‘The Voice’ Judge Jessica Mauboy Opens Up About Sister’s Coming Out

The Voice Australia, Aria award winning Jessica Mauboy spoke openly about her gay sister, and the time she came out to their father in a particularly heartwarming moment during a coaching session with queer contestant Seann Miley Moore.As the talent on this year’s season of The Voice Australia, continues to astound, Moore’s blind audition and rendition of Andrea Bocelli’s The Prayer stunned both judges and audiences alike.While the pair were discussing Moore’s relationship with his farther, Mauboy opened up about the time her sister came out to their father.“I have a gay sister.

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