On falling in love with Ally Sheedy
… Yes, it’s true, Winona was not my first love. The old teev during the non-ratings season has been a bit of a write off, which in many ways isn’t a bad thing. But I have enjoyed a lot of [...]
Hard Labor
This is a guest post by Sam Butler of Queer Penguin For the purposes of this article, let’s optimistically assume the following: Labor wins this year’s federal election; Labor and the Greens and/or Democrats form a Senate majority; and Labor [...]
25 same-sames
SameSame.com.au has announced its list of 25 influential lesbian and gay Australians. It’s an impressive list and fascinating to read about some of the names I’d never heard of, such as Seven’s Head of Creative Drama and Development, Bevan Lee. [...]
View Halloo and Tally Ho!
Above all, [nice people] keep alive the pleasures of the hunt. In the homogenous population, such as that of the English shire, people are condemned to hunt foxes. This is expensive and sometimes even dangerous – moreover, the fox cannot [...]
Samantha Fox and her "very close friend"
Samantha Fox is in the country to participate in the latest Countdown potter down memory lane. Fox was the female who confirmed for a generation of working-class girls that the only way out of the East End was to possess [...]
Samantha Fox and her “very close friend”
Samantha Fox is in the country to participate in the latest Countdown potter down memory lane. Fox was the female who confirmed for a generation of working-class girls that the only way out of the East End was to possess [...]
Pure discrimination
I’ve been mulling over the Federal Cabinet’s attitude towards proposals from the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission for equal treatment under Commonwealth law for same-sex couples. News.com.au depicted it as a ‘hung Cabinet‘, with John Howard to make the [...]
Orphans overboard
PM Howard wants to introduce legislation that would deny entry visas to foreign children adopted by same-sex couples. It appears that this is the response to the successful WA adoption of a child by two men after WA changed its [...]
Whom, exactly, is Joe de Bruyn representing?
Possibly because it can’t be spun as a story about TEH EVIL UNION BOSSES or something (or at least not the right kind of story, but more of that later), there’s not much debate around the traps on the ALP [...]
(not) Everybody loves good neighbours…
I read yesterday that one quarter of Australians (or, to be more accurate, one quarter of those surveyed in the Human Beliefs and Values Survey) said they wouldn’t want gay neighbours, according to Love Thy Neighbour: How Much Bigotry is [...]
Thunderbolts from the heavens?
Legislators in Mexico City are moving towards decriminalising abortion.
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