Patrick Lenton, Author at Star Observer /author/patricklenton Setting Australia’s LGBTI agenda since 1979 Wed, 01 Apr 2026 06:23:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 /wp-content/uploads/2023/02/starobs.png Patrick Lenton, Author at Star Observer /author/patricklenton 32 32 Advocacy Groups Call To Recognise The “Often-Invisible” Carers Supporting Trans Mental Health /news/trans-mentel-health-carers/241419 /news/trans-mentel-health-carers/241419#respond Wed, 01 Apr 2026 06:23:33 +0000 /?p=241419 The mental health of trans, non-binary and gender diverse Australians is shaped not only by access to services, but by often-unseen networks of care. Tandem, Transgender Victoria and Transcend Australia ...

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Anarchic Artist Collective Briefs Has Officially Come Of Age /artsentertainment/briefs-has-officially-come-of-age-feature/241407 /artsentertainment/briefs-has-officially-come-of-age-feature/241407#respond Wed, 01 Apr 2026 01:05:11 +0000 /?p=241407 “Circus with attitude, drag with muscle, and burlesque with bite”: artist collective Briefs is celebrating 18 years of their anarchic, fabulous shows. “She’s of legal drinking age now, she’s off ...

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Bookshop Darlinghurst Among Oxford Street Venues Proposed For Heritage Listing /news/community-news/oxford-street-heritage-listing/241399 /news/community-news/oxford-street-heritage-listing/241399#respond Tue, 31 Mar 2026 22:04:02 +0000 /?p=241399 Sydney’s queer cultural heart could soon see more of its past formally protected, as the City of Sydney announces new plans to heritage list a wave of historically significant LGBTQIA+ ...

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Caster Semenya Slams Olympic Gender Testing As “Disrespect For Women” /news/caster-semenya-olympic-gender-testing/241397 /news/caster-semenya-olympic-gender-testing/241397#respond Tue, 31 Mar 2026 05:29:46 +0000 /?p=241397 Two-time Olympic champion Caster Semenya has issued a fierce rebuke of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), condemning its new gender eligibility rules as “disrespect for women”. The IOC’s policy, which ...

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Vic Police Say There Have Been No New Grindr Hate Crime Attacks Reported Since Arrests /news/vic-police-grindr-attacks-reported/241386 /news/vic-police-grindr-attacks-reported/241386#respond Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:27:04 +0000 /?p=241386 Victoria Police have told a community forum that there have been no new app-based hate crime attacks reported in Victoria since October 2025. Victoria Police have made over 42 arrests ...

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Human Rights Commission Report Finds Widespread Discrimination Against Trans Australians /news/human-rights-commission-report/241388 /news/human-rights-commission-report/241388#respond Mon, 30 Mar 2026 20:00:46 +0000 /?p=241388 A major new report from the Australian Human Rights Commission has laid bare the scale of discrimination faced by trans and gender-diverse people across Australia, painting a “deeply concerning” picture ...

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Moira Deeming Dumped By Victorian Liberals /news/moira-deeming-dumped/241379 /news/moira-deeming-dumped/241379#comments Sun, 29 Mar 2026 21:55:45 +0000 /?p=241379 Controversial anti-trans MP Moira Deeming has been dumped from the ballot for the Victorian Liberal party at the November state election, after a successful challenge by business leader Dinesh Gourisetty. ...

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“Why not?”: Former AFL Player Leigh Ryswyk Has Come Out As Gay /news/why-not-former-afl-player-leigh-ryswyk-has-come-out-as-gay/241313 /news/why-not-former-afl-player-leigh-ryswyk-has-come-out-as-gay/241313#respond Wed, 25 Mar 2026 21:37:48 +0000 /?p=241313 Former AFL player Leigh Ryswyk has come out as gay during an interview with GayFL, the JOY 94.9 football radio show, making him the first male AFL player, past or ...

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OPINION: Why Did Bridgerton Have To Invent Homophobia? /artsentertainment/opinion-why-did-bridgerton-have-to-invent-homophobia/241309 /artsentertainment/opinion-why-did-bridgerton-have-to-invent-homophobia/241309#respond Wed, 25 Mar 2026 06:05:03 +0000 /?p=241309 Good news! Queer people officially exist in the sparkly, jewel-toned Bridgerton universe, and they’re going to fall in love with each other while wearing very stiff clothes. But along with ...

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Trans Girls In The UK Are Being Told To Leave Girl Guides Groups By September /news/girl-guides-trans-uk/241307 /news/girl-guides-trans-uk/241307#respond Tue, 24 Mar 2026 23:24:06 +0000 /?p=241307 Girlguiding, the organisation that oversees Girl Guide groups in the UK, has instructed its members that transgender girls must leave the organisation by early September. The directive follows a previous ...

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Francesca and Michaela’s Sapphic Love Story Is Coming To Bridgerton Season 5 /artsentertainment/bridgerton-season-5-announcement/241305 /artsentertainment/bridgerton-season-5-announcement/241305#respond Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:54:38 +0000 /?p=241305 *Spoilers for Bridgerton season 4 in this article* Extremely exciting news, gentle readers – sapphic yearning will sweep the Ton in the next season of Bridgerton, with Francesca and Michaela ...

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Long Island Ice Tea, Celebrity Handbags, and Exploding Ceilings: Your Tributes To The Stonewall Hotel /news/stonewall-hotel-tributes/241248 /news/stonewall-hotel-tributes/241248#respond Tue, 24 Mar 2026 05:14:42 +0000 /?p=241248 I don’t have many memories of my first visit to the Stonewall Hotel on Oxford Street – I remember getting ready to go out, arriving with my friends, and then ...

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A Librarian Is Risking Her Job After Refusing To Move Books With LGBTQIA+ Themes /news/tennessee-librarian-book-ban/241296 /news/tennessee-librarian-book-ban/241296#respond Tue, 24 Mar 2026 03:00:23 +0000 /?p=241296 A Tennessee Library Director is risking termination after she refused to move more than 100 LBTQIA+ books from youth sections in the library to the adult area, saying she “will ...

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Sydney Might Be Getting An Inner City LGBTIQA+ Services Hub /news/sydney-lgbtiqa-services-hub/241293 /news/sydney-lgbtiqa-services-hub/241293#respond Mon, 23 Mar 2026 21:57:19 +0000 /?p=241293 The City of Sydney Council has unanimously backed the Inner City Legal Centre’s calls for support to establish an inner city LGBTIQA+ Services Hub. Demand for the Inner City Legal ...

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We’re Getting Teasers For The Final Season of Hacks /artsentertainment/hacks-final-season-teasers/241291 /artsentertainment/hacks-final-season-teasers/241291#respond Mon, 23 Mar 2026 06:59:08 +0000 /?p=241291 The wonderful funny and sharp Emmy-winning comedy Hacks will be officially returning for its fifth and final season, with the show dropping  some teaser images for us to enjoy. The ...

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US “Pro-Family” Hate Group MassResistance Is Helping Push Anti-LGBT Laws In Africa /news/massresistance-anti-lgbt-laws-africa/241289 /news/massresistance-anti-lgbt-laws-africa/241289#respond Mon, 23 Mar 2026 06:21:37 +0000 /?p=241289 Anti-LGBTQ+ activists in the African nations of Senegal and Ghana have gone on record to Reuters, saying US hate group MassResistance provided advice and counsel, as well as trying to ...

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“I Do Not Hate Children”: Chappell Roan Responds To Latest Fan Criticism /artsentertainment/chappell-roan-jorginho-frello-criticism/241287 /artsentertainment/chappell-roan-jorginho-frello-criticism/241287#respond Sun, 22 Mar 2026 23:25:13 +0000 /?p=241287 Chappell Roan has responded to accusations made by Brazilian soccer star Jorginho Frello, who took to social media to complain that her security guards made his stepdaughter cry when she ...

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EXPLAINER: Laws Protecting LGBTQIA+ People Exist Around Australia – SA Lags Behind /news/explainer-south-australia-anti-vilification-laws/241246 /news/explainer-south-australia-anti-vilification-laws/241246#comments Thu, 19 Mar 2026 04:34:47 +0000 /?p=241246 Violence against the LGBTQIA+ community is on the rise in Australia. But in the lead-up to the South Australian elections, LGBTQIA+ people are left unprotected. The news recently has been ...

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EXPLAINER: The Long Awaited Sackar Review Into Hate Speech Will Be Released In Two Weeks /news/sackar-review-explainer/241243 /news/sackar-review-explainer/241243#respond Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:39:01 +0000 /?p=241243 Updated: A NSW government spokesperson has reached out to Star Observer to inform that as the report is still before cabinet ahead of a decision being made by the government, ...

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Activists In The US Throw Mock Funeral To Protest Trump’s HIV Funding Cuts /news/mock-funeral-hiv-cuts/241239 /news/mock-funeral-hiv-cuts/241239#respond Wed, 18 Mar 2026 03:40:40 +0000 /?p=241239 If it didn’t already feel like LGBTQ rights are going backwards, HIV activists in the US have staged a mock funeral to protest cuts to federal funding for HIV/AIDS-related programs ...

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