Oceania

LGBTI Rights in Oceania


ADDED ON: 04/04/2022

‘Shame and betrayal’: giving light to rural NSW’s dark LGBTQ+ chapter

When the Sydney-based designer Josie Young undertook an online search for the queer history of her rural hometown, she stumbled onto the team researching a podcast about the world’s only gay prison,…

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ADDED ON: 04/03/2022

NEW STUDY TO LOOK AT COVID IMPACT ON LGBT COMMUNITY LIFE IN NSW

A new study from the University of Sydney will look at the impact of COVID on LGBTQI community life in NSW, including Oxford Street. The research project is being coordinated by the…

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ADDED ON: 03/27/2022

A trans history of gay liberation in New Zealand

Trans activist and deeply committed Aotearoa gay liberationist Sandy Gauntlett wrote in the late 1970s of her frustration that cisgender gays “conveniently overlooked” the role of trans people in gay liberation. While…

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ADDED ON: 03/18/2022

Big majority of Australian parents support LGBTIQ+ education in schools

A national study has found over 80 per cent of Australian parents support the teaching of gender and sexuality diversity in schools, as part of relationships and sexual health education. The study, the…

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ADDED ON: 03/01/2022

Queer youth transforming one of Australia’s most religious regions — the Riverina.

Living as a young queer person in a regional town is sometimes a difficult experience, but these youth are creating change. Bianca Lubke just graduated from high school and she is already…

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ADDED ON: 02/21/2022

Dykehardt: The lesbian history of Leichhardt

Queer communities have a long history of carving out private spaces for social and sexual interaction, utilising urban geographies to resist oppression and build a sense of belonging. In Sydney, these gay neighbourhoods…

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ADDED ON: 02/19/2022

JOURNALIST UNCOVERS ‘WORLD’S ONLY GAY PRISON’ IN AUSTRALIA

For over half a century the shameful and scandalous history behind “world’s only gay prison” located in a small regional town in New South Wales, Australia, had remained buried and forgotten. Now,…

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ADDED ON: 02/17/2022

New Zealand passes law banning conversion therapy

WELLINGTON, Feb 15 (Reuters) - New Zealand's parliament on Tuesday near-unanimously passed a legislation that bans practices intended to forcibly change a person's sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, known as…

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ADDED ON: 02/12/2022

Only 19% of Australians agree religious schools should be able to ban LGBT+ teachers

This week, the religious discrimination bill is finally being debated on the floor of federal parliament. The bill has prompted disagreements within political parties, within religions and across a wide variety of…

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ADDED ON: 02/12/2022

Lawmaker delivers heartfelt appeal on LGBTQ rights as Australia shelves religious discrimination bill

"He has more courage than any boy I have met," Stephen Jones said of his son in a speech to the Australian parliament earlier this week. "He swims against the tide." Jones,…

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ADDED ON: 02/11/2022

Young trans people around Australia are seeing the news and hearing that they are not worthy of protection

I grew up in Sydney’s western suburbs during the 80s, a knockabout kid who was always a bit worried and generally a bit of a worry. My worry – to the point…

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ADDED ON: 02/08/2022

Religious discrimination bill will not protect trans students from expulsion, Simon Birmingham confirms

The Morrison government will seek to protect gay students from expulsion without protecting trans students at the same time, a senior minister has revealed. On Monday Scott Morrison recommitted to bringing an…

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