Gay friends


Attention ladies: I don’t want to be your gay boyfriend

The rise of the ‘fag hag’ meant that gay men were suddenly the straight woman’s must-have item for shopping and discussing boy problems. But is the fag hag (finally) dying out? asks Thomas Rogers.

Nelson steps up to the plate on gay rights

When Brendan Nelson was appointed I was unable to imagine him moving ahead of his party on the financial and workplace entitlements of same-sex partners, despite his late gay brother. But this is exactly what he did, \writes Rodney Croome.