MORE than nine million Australians have voted in the postal survey on gay marriage so far. That’s about 57.5 per cent of the 16 million registered voters able to take part in the $122 million postal survey.
The LGBTQ Resource Center launched a new mentorship program for underclassmen and transfer students this past week. The program, “Passages,” which was announced earlier in the semester, is entirely student-led. Several upperclassmen developed the program over the summer.
The New York Yankees are the only one of the 10 teams in the Major League Baseball playoffs to never have held an LGBT Pride night. They are also one of three to not have such an event in 2017.
Gay and bisexual men making less than $30,000 a year and without a university degree have more than five times the odds of attempting suicide compared with their more advantaged peers, according to new research from the University of British Columbia.
Yesterday, a gunman in Las Vegas killed 59 people and injured another 527 in the most deadly mass shooting in US history. Armed with 16 guns, 64-year-old Stephen Paddock opened fire from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel, shooting at those attending an open-air music festival.
New official figures released by Public Health England (PHE) show a decline in the number of new diagnoses of HIV in gay and bisexual men in the UK. PHE’s figures for 2016 show a 21% decline in the number of gay and bisexual men in the UK being newly diagnosed with HIV, falling from 3,570 new cases in 2015 to 2,810 new cases last year.
“Some of the strongest cinema we’ve seen this year has been LGBT-themed,” says festival director Clare Stewart. “Everyone in the industry is now more willing to take a risk.”
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