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Coming out can be one of the most significant decisions you can make as a gay or bisexual man. Being your most authentic self has huge positive long-term impacts on your relationships, your mental state, and your sense of well-being.

If you’ve spent years or even decades of your adult life living as straight identifying, what’s already a tricky process can be made even more complex.

In its announcement, the NSW Government said it supports all 19 of the inquiry’s public recommendations.

Implementation of some of these recommendations have already been completed. Action on other recommendations is underway or will be implemented following further planning or technological advances.

2Four teenage boys have been accused of "hate crimes" as part of an alleged catfishing scheme using dating app Grindr to lure gay men to a location before attacking them with various weapons including crowbars.

Two boys, aged 15 and 16, appeared in court on Thursday and were remanded in custody until their next court appearances.

Late on Thursday afternoon, police revealed they had charged a further two other boys, aged 16 and 17 with a series of offences relating to the incidents.

Tasmania may become the first state or territory in Australia to introduce a financial compensation scheme for people convicted of the past criminal offences of homosexuality and "cross-dressing".

A bill passed Tasmania's lower house this week to amend laws that expunge, or remove from the record, these criminal convictions.

The exclusion of a transgender woman from a female-only app constituted unlawful discrimination due to gender identity, according to a landmark Federal Court ruling.

Roxanne Tickle downloaded the Giggle for Girls social networking platform, which was designed to be an "online refuge" for women, in February 2021.

Users provided a selfie to be assessed by artificial intelligence software to verify they were a woman.

Since November 2023, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has advised that some of Australia’s PrEP suppliers are experiencing issues. This means that some local chemists may be temporarily out of stock.

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Emma felt she had no choice but to keep her girlfriend and their child a secret from a conservative Catholic school leadership.

Under current laws, the religion teacher could legally be fired for her relationship and said she was told as much by the school principal and her union.

Albanese government drops promise to include LGBTIQA+ people in the census

LGBTIQA+ Health Australia says the decision by the Albanese government to drop a promise to include specific questions in the national census about LGBTIQA+ people will have a long lasting effect.

The 78-year-old will release the book in the first half of 2026, which will take readers through her famous family, her career, struggles with substance abuse, and love life.

“Since I was old enough to put pencil to paper, people asked me to write books about my career,” Minnelli said in a statement to People Magazine..

Sexuality is one of those things that can be very fluid for some people. It varies throughout their life, for others, it isn’t that complicated.

Andrew Macdougall is a guest writer. He is a raging bisexual, journalist, avid ice hockey fan and host of the PridePuckPod Podcast.

Unfortunately there is sad news from the Broken Heel facebook page.

To our dear “been every year” audience, those “who are coming” and those who are “yet to have been” – we just would like to say that this year’s Festival is likely to be our last!