LGBTIQ

After the victory for marriage equality in 2017, religious institutions began a campaign for laws they say are needed to protect ‘religious freedoms’. They saw the resounding win for LGBTIQ+ rights as a blow...

Women and men around the world will mark March 8 as International Women’s Day, with demonstrations, marches and celebrations. The run-up to this occasion presents an important opportunity to examine its history and discuss...

Two gay journalists fled to Australia from Saudi Arabia in October after authorities interrogated and threatened to ‘out’ them. This would have put their lives at risk, given that homosexuality is illegal in Saudi...

Attorney General Christian Porter plans to put a package of ‘religious discrimination’ bills to the parliament by the end of the year. If passed, these laws will weaken protections for women, LGBTIQ people and...

Fifty years ago the modern LGBTQ movement burst onto the scene. Mass anger at the repression of LGBTQ people had been bubbling under the surface. It exploded at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar...

Victoria Police have seriously injured an innocent man in a mistaken raid on an apartment behind a LGBTIQ community bookstore. His injuries are so severe that he may now lose the use of his...

In December last year, the LGBTIQ support service Switchboard was told that they would lose two-thirds of their federal government funding. This was a huge blow, and has put a lot of LGBTIQ people...

It’s been a year since marriage equality was won in Australia, but how much has actually changed for LGBTIQ people? While thousands of people are happy that they have been allowed to get married,...