Second Class

Identify and facilitate sporting, recreational and fitness programs and events that enhance the student experience of the Uni's LGBTIQA+ students

A cultural practice called "bacha posh" encourages parents dress their daughters as sons for a better future. But often, it only makes life harder.

For this week only "This Way Out", the international LGBTIQ radio news magazine, produced in the USA, features an interview with Aboriginal drag act, the Dreamtime Divas. Listen at the link below

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Conservative Christian Australians will not "lose" their substantive religious freedoms. Anti-discrimination laws protect them from discrimination within education, employment and service provision. Their rights to freedom of belief, conscience, worship, assembly, doctrine and speech are protected as well. However, freedom of religious practice is not and should never be an absolute, even if quite broad, as then one would get Pentecostal snakehandlers, animal sacrifice and all manner of other questionable results, as has occurred in the US under radical "religious liberty" premises: ... See more

“It’s not just the protection of religious freedom but the protection of other fundamental rights including parental rights. Dr Augusto Zimmerman

Northern Ireland Labour MP will move on marriage equality there, regardless of May administration cowardice:

Conor McGinn, a Northern Ireland-born Labour MP, writes for PinkNews about his plan to legislate in the UK Parliament to bring marriage equality to Northern Ireland.

Tennessee Methodist minister has her license revoked for presiding over a same-sex marriage:

A pastor who officiated a same-sex wedding in Tennessee has had her license revoked.

Bankrupt fundamentalist Oregon cakemakers still haven't paid damages for service provider discrimination to lesbian couple:

The owners of a bakery, which was shut down after refusing to make a cake for a lesbian wedding, are still refusing to pay damages five years after a ruling.

Brave Ugandan LGBT activists will undertake action after further regime and police crackdowns against them:

The last Pride was held in 2016, but the event was raided by police and at least two activists were arrested.

Mental health issues in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander LGBT communities met with silence:

Murdoch University in Western Australia is launching research into the impact of discrimination on the mental health of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander LGBTQI community. With Indigenous and LGBTQI ... See more