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Rainbows in the top end
Article: LGBTI Indigenous people offered a rainbow to follow. Black Rainbow, the first mental health and suicide prevention support service of its type.
Double Rainbow theme song with sing along lyrics
Gong Xi Fat Cai
This seven minute film was produced by PFLAG China – Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays – with members of the organisation urging gay men and women to be as open with their families as they are able as they celebrate New Year.
Radio: Queering the Air & gold medal Mitcham
Something for the radio lovers. Podcast from 3CR show, Queering the Air. Four episodes exploring queer heritage among Vietnamese, Chinese, Arabic and Hindi speaking communities.
Magaret Throsby talking to Australian diver/ queer icon Matthew Mitcham on Classic FM this morning.
Telly: SBS & ABC
Check out SBS movies on demand, either via your smart TV (check out the genres Mardi Gras & LGBT) or the web (the genre Queer Cinema). Movies available free of charge include Tomboy, the award-winning Brotherhood and Australian movie Head On, and the highly recommended Beginners.
Repeats of Stephen Fry: Out There are currently being screened on ABC2 on Wednesdays at 8.30 pm. Check out iview also.
Law reform, and inequality for teachers elsewhere
Progression in Victoria for same sex adoption. Teachers on code of behaviour NSW ACT. All the more reason to campaign against the exemptions for religious institutions in the NT.
WA Liberal Senator Dean Smith Declares Support for Marriage Equality WA Senator Dean Smith, an openly gay man previously opposed to gay marriage, said the death of Tori Johnson in the siege at Sydney’s Lindt cafe caused him to change his position. 20 February 2015
Cher it’s only a bit of fun
Icon – You don’t own me
NT News 18 Feb 2015: It’s My Party singer dies at 68
NEW YORK: Singer-songwriter Lesley Gore, who topped the charts in 1963 with her epic song of teenage angst, It’s My Party, and followed it up with the hits Judy’s Turn to Cry, and the feminist anthem You Don’t Own Me, died Monday. She was 68. Gore (pictured), a non-smoker, died of lung cancer at New York Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan, according to her partner of 33 years, Lois Sasson.
I’m gay. And I want my kid to be gay, too.
Sally Kohn, an essayist and political commentator for the US Cable News Network (CNN), challenges prejudice in her opinion piece in The Washington Post. 20 February 2015