Category: News
Sydney has made LGBTQ+ history, with Councillor Olly Arkins becoming the City of Sydney’s first openly transgender Deputy Lord Mayor. Arkins was elected to the role by fellow councillors on 21 September, less than two years after first winning a seat on the City of Sydney Council in 2024. She was the only nominee for […]
A US law firm is threatening to sue one of North Carolina’s largest school districts unless parents are allowed to remove their children from a class taught by a transgender teacher. The Thomas More Society issued a formal demand to Wake County Public School System on 15 September, giving the district 15 days to meet […]
Two teenagers are to stand trial accused of murdering and robbing Dublin man Alex Coughlan after prosecutors alleged he was contacted through Grindr and targeted in a premeditated attack. Coughlan, 37, suffered serious injuries during an assault on Mill Road in Blanchardstown on 17 May 2026. He was taken to Connolly Hospital Blanchardstown in a […]
Forty-five minutes from central Wellington, Leilani Sio (they/them) has found a place where they can disappear. They live in a small village on the Kāpiti Coast, close enough to Pōneke for their work at Experience Wellington but far enough away to enjoy a degree of anonymity. The ocean is central to life there. Sio swims […]
A coalition of 100 Australian organisations is urging federal MPs to reject attempts to redefine “sex” in the Sex Discrimination Act, warning proposed changes could weaken protections for transgender and intersex people as well as women more broadly. The open letter brings together women’s organisations, LGBTQ+ groups, unions, disability organisations and mental-health advocates. Signatories include […]
Conservation, community and connection came together at The Hotel Britomart in Auckland for a special networking brunch exploring how collaboration can turn shared environmental values into greater impact. At the heart of Conservation in Action were husbands Jerad and Ike Haldan, the couple behind the Otago Peninsula Eco Restoration Alliance — The OPERA. Together, they […]
Police are hunting three men after a stabbing outside one of Liverpool’s best-known LGBTQ+ venues left three people injured in the early hours of Sunday morning. Merseyside Police were called to Tithebarn Street shortly after 6.30 am on 20 September, where three men were found injured following an incident believed to have started at nearby […]
A Sydney court has heard allegations that former NSW Police officer Beau Lamarre-Condon disguised himself as an Uber Eats rider before allegedly murdering TV presenter Jesse Baird and Baird’s boyfriend, Luke Davies. Lamarre-Condon, 31, is standing trial in the NSW Supreme Court on two counts of domestic violence-related murder and one count of aggravated break […]