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Saddening and disappointing result 💔

Source and Credit: The Daily Aus

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So proud of you, Shinjiro! 🫶 Hopefully, someday soon Japan will move towards making LGBTQ+ equality a reality. We're in 2023 and it's saddening that we still have many parts of the world that continue to not accept our love. Only 34 countries have legalised Marriage Equality. Let's continue spreading our love. Each step, story, and voice matters so please continue speaking up and spreading awareness about what marriage equality means to you.

That's nice to hear, good it's going well

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Hahaha never gets old ❤️

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The indoctrination never stops.

Conservatives need a minority target to keep their followers focused/unified on hate. As the followers obsess on hate, their lives/emotions are much easier to manipulate.

Conservatives always vow to restore the country to some distant past that never existed.

It's an endless loop of failure.

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ESTONIA HAS LEGALISED MARRIAGE EQUALITY ❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜

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Here are more photos from our Wedding Day! We are so happy with how they turned out 😍 📸 Sam Wyper Photography 

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Noah just came out! 🌈

So happy for him — it’s not easy especially since he’s grown up in the public eye, it’s a lot to process and come to terms with. So proud of you, Noah ❤️

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Noah De Losa shares: “I’d become a doctor and that was representative with the cap but I really wanted to represent my Queer journey as well.

I identify as quite gender fluid, and I love makeup. I love femininity, and I really love drag. It’s something that feels very authentic to me. I really love the art form, I love the history of it, and I love the provocative nature of it.”

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Love this!! ❤️ Noah, you are looking so fab on your special day.

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I married the love of my life on the 21st of December, 2022. I’m proud to be a wife and starting a new and exciting chapter with my best friend ❤️🏳️‍🌈

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Waiting twelve years for this was worth it

Bette and Tina we missed you!

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“I knew if they ever found out about me, I’d end up like Johnny Yablonsky. Johnny was soft, he was feminine, he was clearly gay. The neighborhood guys would make him blow them; then beat the shit out of him. He always had a lot of bruises, and absenteeism. He was so defeated. I’ve always assumed he killed himself. And I didn’t want the same thing to happen to me. It was a lot of fear, and shame. The fucking shame. I participated in my own self-negation. I laughed at all the jokes. I tried to tighten up on the masculine stuff. I’d stand in front of the mirror. I’d practice my walk, my diction, the movement of my hands. Somehow I managed to make it out of that town alive. During our first Christmas break at college, I went with my friend Howie to visit his family in Long Island. Afterward he dropped me off at the airport. He thought I was flying home. But I caught the Greyhound Bus to New York City. I put all my stuff in a luggage locker and started walking down 5th Avenue. It was night. It wasn’t lit up like today. All the storefronts were dark; it was like lyric poetry to me. Unopened boxes full of mystery. All I knew was I had to get to Greenwich Village. I kept asking people—is this the village, is this the village? They kept saying: further south, further south. Finally I get to the corner of 8th Street and 6th Avenue, and I’m waiting for the light to change. And this guy starts hitting on me. A few years older than me, good looking. His name was Charlie. And he put a spell on me immediately. From the very first moment, I had a hard-on for Charlie Bacchus. I felt safe with him. He took me to my first gay bar. Then afterward we went to his mom’s loft apartment on Washington Square. She happened to be in Rome. So it was just me and Charlie Bacchus, in this gorgeous apartment, with the door closed, cut off from the rest of the world. There was sex, beautiful sex. First time I’d ever had sex with my shoes off. The next morning I came out of the shower, and wrapped a towel around me. Charlie said: ‘What are you doing? Take that off. You’re beautiful.’ He said it so gently, like someone looking at a painting. And it was my first profound lesson in shedding shame.”

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Trans Health Equity at ACON and ASHM in Sydney are collaborating on a new eLearning module about trans-affirming sexual health care.

They are looking for at least 5 trans people (which includes men, women, non-binary and gender diverse people!) to represent the case studies in the eLearning.

This will include a photoshoot and short voice recordings.

Date of photoshoot: Tuesday 19th of October (between 9am and 5pm)

Duration: 30 minutes per person

Payment: $200 pre-paid Visa Card

Location: ACON offices, Level 3, 414 Elizabeth Street Surrey Hills, Sydney

Attire: Whatever you feel comfortable in, as long as no obvious logo in view

Have any questions? Contact Leo Tsao (Trans Health Equity Projects Coordinator) at ltsao@acon.org.au

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Leisha will be directing the season finale of TLWGQ 😍 So excited and happy for her — she is my favourite 👏

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Sign the petition to call on our Federal Government and the Australian Bureau of Statistics to include LGBTQIA+ people in the next Census.

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In honour of Bi Visibility Day, here’s a lovely reminder that there isn’t one way to be bi. No matter who you are, know that we see you and love you 💗💜💙

Art by the talented Taylor Steinbeck 🥰