Today a good mate shared this fantastic video talking about the use of the term “that’s so gay”. I have to say I freaking love listening to Ash Beckham. Her enthusiam and humor is amazing. That’s So Gay? My absolute favorite quotes from this talk has to be these two: “You can legislate tolerance [but] you can’t legislate [...]
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Homophobia In Sport Industry Continues
In followup to my previous post on homophobia in sport, Ben Cohen has gone on to report that out football player Gareth Thomas was dropped by sponsor Reebok after he came out. As I mentioned in my previous post until gay men are able to feel safe in knowing that coming out is not going [...]
How would you respond to homophobic violence?
Today I saw a news article about 2 gay men that were subjected to homophobic violence when on the NYC subway. As reported by The Advocate magazine: Urena Morel Frankelly and his partner say they were heading south on the No. 2 train when they say a woman began taking pictures of them, leading to [...]
Gay & Lesbian Youth Support Group Twenty10 vs. Parramatta City Council
Gay & Lesbian group Twenty10 had yesterday planned to attend the Rediscover the River festival at Parramatta. This organisation offers support for GLBTI youth as well families of our community members. Pictured above is their banned used to welcome people to their stall. On the day an adviser to the Parramatta Lord Mayor, John Chedid, told [...]
Australian Doctor Banned For Prescribing “Gay Cure”
Today it’s been reported that an Australian family doctor has been banned from practicing after prescribing a drug to “cure” a young man, referred to in findings as “patient A”, of his homosexuality. Dr Mark Christopher James Craddock was recently severely reprimanded by the New South Wales Health Care Complaints Commission for prescribing the drug Cyprostat, a testosterone blocking [...]
AFL Joins No Homophobia Campaign
In addition to today’s launch of No To Homophobia campaign it’s heartening to see that the AFL has come out in support to remove homophobia from their code. As seen on Twitter: AFL declares war on homophobia | AFL | Fox Sports foxsports.com.au/afl/afl-premie… — AFL Diversity (@AFLdiversity) August 28, 2012 Let’s put this in context [...]
No To Homophobia Campaign Launches In Australia
Today is an awesome day in Australian history with the introduction of this fantastic campaign: “No To Homophobia”. With the introduction of these thought provoking television ads I hope that over time people will start to understand the subtle and subversive way homophobia works. Over time I hope that homophobia will become as abhorrent and [...]
Where Do Personal Beliefs Stop When In Public Office?
Hi there Guys, Today I wanted to follow up on my recent post “Doctors In The Dark“. After the this article was published I have been overwhelmed with not only amazing public support but also more than a handful of enquiries from a number of press agencies. To bring a little context, the reason “Doctors [...]
Doctors in the Dark
Hey there Guys, Today I thought it was important to declare a few things… Firstly I am an openly gay man. What you see above is what you get. Secondly I am a doctor, a very proud doctor and I 100% believe and live by the Declaration of Geneva, in particular: “I will not permit [...]
How Do We Deal With AIDSphobic Rants?
Hey there Guys, This weekend I have really been wondering exactly how far we have come when it comes to dealing with homophobia. Two threads I have seen on Facebook have left me cold, angry and to be honest ready to throw punches. Perhaps I should explain. First episode was when a friend mentioned he [...]
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