If you’re going to out an irrelevant but embarrassing secret of a public figure, you’d better make sure they react badly. That seems to be ACMA’s logic in clearing Channel Seven of breaching standards when it outed NSW MP David Campbell.
Gay community
On the beat: debate on public sex dividing the gay community
A grassroots project that began with picnics aimed at monitoring police harassment of men at beats — public places where men gather to have casual, consensual sex — is expanding, despite controversial beginnings in Sydney’s inner city, reports Inga Ting.
‘Threatened’ Tony has opportunity to repent — in budgies
Tony Abbott’s comments on homosexuality — saying he felt “threatened” by gays — have been roundly attacked as homophobic. Now Tony has a chance to repent, resplendent in the latest designer speedos. Will he accept?
Has the gay community really found a new friend in Mayor Robert Doyle?
The gay and lesbian community seems to have found a new friend in Melbourne mayor Robert Doyle, but not everyone thinks his change of heart is genuine or substantive, writes Luke Williams.
China’s long, gay march
Shanghai played host to China’s first ever Gay Pride Festival last week, featuring films, panels, and drag shows — but no parade. You can now be gay in China, but you still can’t be political.
Roxon’s ambassadors: homophobic, sexist and totally inappropriate
No Government should be entirely comfortable with such people as Warwick Marsh and Barry Williams as a representative of a taxpayer-funded program, writes Bernard Keane.
Tips and rumours
Malcolm Turnbull has long been wooing the gay community. Last Mardi Gras Parade I sat directly opposite him and his lovely wife Lucy, in the BGF stand. A few points worth noting: The gay bears loved him. He deliberately avoided looking at the anti Howard float I saw him give Lucy a lingering kiss in […]
