A Mardi Gras Mass For The Queerly Departed One of the performance highlights of the 2019 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras festival season will be Requiem Mass: A Queer Divine Rite. An original choral work by American singer and composer Holcombe Waller, Requiem invokes remembrance and peace for the dead who have suffered persecution...
As many as 40 gay men and lesbians have allegedly been illegally detained in Chechnya, a republic inside the Russian Federation. The Russian LGBT Network is warning that Chechnya has resumed its extrajudicial campaign of persecution of LGBT people, with at least several dozen people detained since December. “We know that around 40 people were...
Husbands Justin and Greg are set to host Japan’s first gay ski week in March, 2019… and it’s all happening because of their love of skiing and each other. “We got married in Hakuba in a mountain-side chapel in March. Everyone was dressed in traditional Japanese kimonos, which was fun and memorable,” says Justin. “It...
A 17-year-old Sydney schoolboy, Finn Standard, has stood before thousands of his peers, teachers and parents at Catholic High School, St Ignatius’ College, and proudly announced that he is gay. The response from the assembly is truly heartwarming, as captured in this video by SBS TV. Finn’s announcement comes as the Morrison government reneges on...
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Death threats, dirty tricks and hard slog… A year since Australians voted Yes to marriage equality, campaigner Alex Greenwich recalls the highs and lows of the struggle. DNA: For years, before the postal survey, opinion polls showed that Australians supported same-sex marriage. How did that effect the way the Yes campaign was run? Alex...
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A statement released by the family of the ‘Queen of Soul’, Aretha Franklin has announced that the singer has died. According to her publicist, Franklin died at 9:50 a.m. at her home in Detroit, surrounded by family and friends. The “official cause of death was due to advanced pancreatic cancer of the neuroendocrine type, which...
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