The psychology of fear and hate, and what each of us can do to stop it. As an immigrant to New Zealand, I am saddened and outraged by the events in Christchurch. The apparent innocence of New Zealand has been stripped away by acts of cowardice and evil.

Photo: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has travelled to Christchurch after yesterday’s terror attacks. Migrants target of hate

Australian Lawyers for Human Rights ( ALHR ) has made a New Year call on the Australian Prime Minister to give immediate effect to his 2018 promise to remove religious exemptions to discrimination laws affecting LGBT students and teachers in Australian schools.

November 15, 2018 is the one-year anniversary of Australians voting “yes” to marriage equality. The survey was an unprecedented two-month exercise in engaging with current Australian community values around sexuality and relationships.

If your thinking about starting PrEP (Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis) having as much information as possible is essential before making your decision.

PrEP is a prescription medication which is a combination of two different drugs, and is taken once daily by people in order to prevent them from becoming infected with HIV. It must be started 7 days before exposure and continued for 28 days after exposure.

IN THIS ISSUE: CBR SpringOUT festival guide, Uniting Church has become the first of the three major Australian Christian churches to endorse same-sex marriage p23. India’s LGBTIQ community celebrates after their Supreme Court overturned a 157 year old British colonial law that had criminalised homosexual acts p37. Julia O’Boyle talks about dealing with stress over the holiday period p31 and Maxwell Elliff our resident millennial writes about Boy Erased and gay conversion therapy and so much more.

IN THIS ISSUE: With her distinctive nerdish glasses, boyishly short brown hair and signature attire, funny lady, Hannah Gadsby is ‘a little bit lesbian. John Cameron Mitchell — think Hedwig and the Angry Inch — living a creative life filled with fluidity and queerness on the celestial level. Is it time for a digital detox? Are you addicted to your phone? We are more globally connected than ever before, but life in the digital age is far from ideal. Plus, That Start Up Show. LGBTIQ news, Long Yang winter celebration, film reviews, queer horoscopes, dear rose and so much more.

Gay chef and food consultant Clancy Atkinson writes about the ultimate food, Mushrooms. Mushrooms are full of robust, earthy flavour, dietary goodness and are extremely versatile.

Since the glorious and long-overdue passing of same-sex marriage into Australian law last year (after enduring that ridiculously invasive and expensive political circle jerk otherwise known as the postal plebiscite), I have found myself increasingly asked one niggling question from my hetero friends, “So… are you going to get married now?”

Gay, Straight or Bi the fact is sometimes our sex life can become very dull.  As a qualified sex therapist I have a few ideas that might help spice things up for those people who do want to enjoy sex more but have found themselves to be in a bit of a rut. Sometimes, even if we know all this stuff we can get lazy and forget for a while..

Fitness basics! Summer is coming and with it comes all the parties, festivities and trips to the beach — and we all know what that means... it’s shirts off guys... in fact, it usually means not wearing many clothes at all! So here's a few tips on how you can look your best!

We all know that we need to exercise to lose weight and tone up. The hard part about this is knowing exactly what to do and what muscles to work. 

The anonymous author of the pamphlet Onania (1716) was very worried about masturbation. The ‘shameful vice’, the ‘solitary act of pleasure’, was something too terrible to even be described. The writer agreed with those ‘who are of the opinion, that… it never ought to be spoken of, or hinted at because the bare mentioning of it...

Proudly presented by the Gay and Lesbian Tennis Club during SpringOUT, Bushdance is Canberra's most popular GLBTI annual event attracting locals and people from all over the country. Photos kindly supplied by Doug Robinson.