Equality advocates welcome SA Premier’s renewed call for same-sex marriage
Australian Marriage Equality has welcomed SA Premier Jay Weatherill’s speech in parliament calling for marriage equality and an end to discrimination against LGBTI people. Weatherill’s comments were prompted by the tragic situation following the recent …

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Talking Turkey: a groundbreaking chat on LGBTI parenting
The forum as part of the Queer Thinking series in this year’s Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras festival. About 11 per cent of Australian gay men and 33 per cent of lesbians have dependent children – a number which could rise if NSW were to see …

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Cool Tool: HipChat
HipChat is organized into chat rooms, which you can create for projects, teams, or any purpose you choose. Drag and drop files from your email, server, or the web; embed apps directly into a chat room (for example, a polling app or a software performance …

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Committee signs off on bill reaffirming pastors' right to refuse to marry gay couples
“Gay people have been marrying in the United States for 12 years; gay people have been marrying in the state of Florida for over a year,” said Equality Florida chief executive Nadine Smith. “And no pastor has been required to marry a gay couple.

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Number of Australians coming out as LGBTI on Facebook each day doubles in a year
These sites were Equal Marriage Rights Australia, Australian Marriage Equality, DIY Rainbow, Acon, Ending HIV, SameSame, OX Live, SX News, Gay News Network and Gay Life. “Across the country, we observed large increases in fan growth of Australian LGBTIQ …

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Stephen Fry Talks Attempted Suicide After Interviewing Anti-Gay Ugandan Politician
saying ‘you have just got to get him to a hospital.'” He also reveals that his psychiatrist thought of having him committed upon his return to the United Kingdom.

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SBS unveils bevy of LGBTI content for Mardi Gras
SBS Radio 3 will join forces with Australia’s gay and lesbian radio station, JOY 94.9 for a Mardi Gras weekend simulcast on digital radio and digital television around Australia, including live coverage of the Mardi Gras parade.

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Cafe Chat: Revival of Revival under way
Stop by the cafe on Cashmere Rd to check out the new look. A taste of the Olympics The New Zealand chefs heading to the Olympics are serving up The Olympic Feast at Visions on Campus at Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology on Saturday February 13.

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Baby rapist who was released early from prison caught with new stash of child porn
In 2005, Ward ran eight chat rooms and had 25,745 sexual photographs and films of children on sophisticated home computer equipment. The shocking “library” included images and video clips of himself abusing a nine-month-old baby over two days. He sent out …

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Art This Week: Patrick Staff, Monique Levesque, and Janna Watson
The focus of U.K.-born artist Patrick Staff’s film installation is the vast archive of Tom of Finland, the erotic gay art icon — but not the works … whose work is gaining popularity across Canada, paints bold, blooming works that play off the …

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