Kate O’Halloran talks to the crew behind The Sequined Menace – Glitta Supernova, Fancy Piece and Pluto Savage – about Sydney’s underground scene, queer cabaret and what we can expect from this powerhouse of performers' new venture.
ADELAIDE: The current Mayor and youngest in the history of the Adelaide suburban City of Unley, Lachlan Clyne is welcoming any celebration of diversity, says Alex Dunkin
PortrAIDS is a travelling exhibition of celebrity portraits designed to spread the word on HIV prevention. Ron Hughes speaks to photographer Alex Larumbe.
Exhibitions, gala dinners, Red Ribbons – show your support and help raise funds for HIV charities and organisations at events on, and around, World AIDS Day.
Carolyn Twietmeyer is the founder of HIV adoption advocacy group Project Hopeful. She has 13 biological and adopted children, of whom two are HIV-positive. In Australia recently advocating for the adoption of HIV-positive children from overseas, she spoke with Serkan Ozturk.
WORLD AIDS DAY: Since 1994, the Positive Speakers Bureau has been educating the broader community about HIV by sharing the personal stories of its speakers. Here, one of the speakers, Steven Berveling, shares his journey.
WORLD AIDS DAY: The red ribbon, and memorial tributes like the AIDS quilt, are important symbols that help us heal as we remember those we have lost to HIV/AIDS, writes MCC Brisbane Pastor, Leigh Neighbour.
Public sex can be risky business: gay bashing, sexually transmitted diseases and an increased police presence at metropolitan beats will definitely put a dampener on things. In part two of his story, Anthony Smith looks at the legal issues of beat usage.
Thomas Vale-Slattery offers a glimpse of some of the engaging reflections in the recently released Speak Now: Australian perspectives on same-sex marriage.
Recent weeks at Parliament have been a hive of activity since the MP Andrew Fraser launched his private member’s Bill to introduce civil unions into Queensland. Phil Browne has been following the debate.
Earlier this year we ran a story about US high school student Caleb Laieski meeting President Obama. A victim of bullying, Laieski left school and notified his school district he would bring a lawsuit to protect himself and others from bullying, which lead to a policy change. The young Arizonian spoke to Andrew Shaw about how things are progressing.
