LGBTQ
‘Sad state’: Warning that Oxford Street risks losing LGBTQ character
Gentrification, policing and an “influx of young families with kids and dogs” are draining the vibrancy of Sydney’s iconic gay strip.
- by Andrew Taylor
Latest
How one photo on the front page of The Age in ’94 marked Melbourne’s Stonewall moment
This week marks 30 years since the widely condemned police raid on the queer party night known as Tasty. The queer community plans to celebrate the former club in style.
- by Rachael Dexter
Webster in Paris
Paris 2024
The disgusting display from world’s media following Algerian boxer’s victory
Regardless of whether you believe Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting should be competing at these Games, all concerned would do well to remember they are human beings.
- by Andrew Webster
Exclusive
IVF
Bid to change ‘archaic’ IVF rules to include solo and same-sex parents
The definition of infertility to receive Medicare-funded fertility treatment requires couples to try to conceive through unprotected sex for one year.
- by Kate Aubusson
Hit and myths: The truth about Algerian boxer at centre of Olympics gender controversy
The bout between Imane Khelif and Angela Carini lasted less than a minute, but it has become one of the biggest stories of the Olympics.
- by Jonathan Drennan
Opinion
Paris 2024
Even if you accept that gender is fluid, the rules of sport shouldn’t be
The IOC, having sleepwalked its Olympic boxing competition into a hot mess, is now seeking to convince us the rules of the sport are being followed.
- by Chip Le Grand
‘You can’t put other people at risk’: Aussie boxer weighs into gender storm
A gender controversy has erupted at the Paris Olympics after an Italian boxer abandoned her bout against an opponent, who previously failed a gender test, and refused to shake hands.
- by Michael Chammas and Marta Pascual Juanola
Women’s boxer identifying as a man calls for transgender Olympians to be banned
As a gender debate flared in Paris, a boxer from the Philippines who fought in the women’s competition declared, “I still consider myself as a trans man because my heart says so”.
- by Michael Chammas
‘Not a provocation’: Drag show performers thought biblical painting was inspiration
The performers hinted that the bawdy tableau was intended to imitate Leonardo da Vinci’s famed painting ‘The Last Supper’
- by Rob Harris
AFL Briefing
AFL 2024
‘Genuinely confused’: AFLPA hits out at tackling bans; Saint gets six matches for homophobic language
St Kilda’s Lance Collard has been suspended for six games for using homophobic language while playing in the VFL, while Charlie Cameron and Toby Bedford will continue to fight against the three-match bans they received for tackling offences.
- by Andrew Wu, Marnie Vinall and Peter Ryan
Opinion
LGBTIQ hate crimes
I thought I knew the brilliant Johnson brothers, but Steve had more to reveal
As he fought to have them investigate his brother’s death, police resented Steve Johnson’s wealth, but he wasn’t born to money.
- by Rick Feneley