News & Views Protests and Progress: A look back on the biggest moments from Mardi Gras 2023 First sitting PM to march in parade, and Lydia Thorpe protests: we look at the highlights across from the 45th Mardi Gras parade in Sydney.
News & Views ‘When hateful propaganda goes unchecked’: Mass shooting in LGBTQ nightclub in US A gunman opened fire at a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs on Saturday night, killing five people and injuring 25.
News & Views UN experts demand stay of execution for two women activists sentenced to death in Iran Two women LGBT activists, Zahra Sedighi-Hamadani and Elham Choubdar, have been sentenced to death by Iranian judicial authorities.
News & Views ‘It’s kids we are talking about’: Supporting LGBTIQ+ youth in the wake of the religious discrimination bill “It’s not a political debate. It’s kids we are talking about, who are entitled to be loved for who they are,” said Kylie Gwynne, co-chair of Rainbow Families.
Uncategorised The Religious Discrimination Bill is dead, but my community’s rights are still being violated “Hate speech is being normalised by the spectacle around this bill. And that violence will continue, harming real people, irrespective of the letter of the law.”
News & Views French rugby federation to allow transgender women in women’s domestic competitions The federation’s decision contradicts a recommendation given by World Rugby last year, that said it did not advise transgender women should play women’s contact rugby “on safety grounds”.
News & Views ‘I will do everything I can to change this world for the better’: Actor Elliot Page announces he is transgender Oscar-nominated ‘Juno’ star Elliot Page wrote in a statement that he posted on Tuesday he will no longer be known as Ellen.
News & Views The US Supreme Court is considering LGBTQ+ rights in landmark cases The US Supreme Court heard three cases that could change American discrimination law, on what will be one of the most important days in LGBTQ+ history.