“I don’t want to be labelled as gay” they said. Sometimes people tell me they don’t want to be labelled by their sexual orientation. "There's so much more to me than being gay, " they say. Not me though. For many years, I rejected my GAY identity. The last thing I would have ever [...]
CURED documentary review – a MUST SEE for all LGBTQ people, families, friends and allies. Ambassadors & Bridge Builders International (ABBI) and Brave Network are pleased to announce a private virtual screening of the award-winning PBS documentary CURED, which highlights a pivotal but little-known moment in LGBTQ history when activists rose up to challenge [...]
Sy Rogers misled me and I tried to be straight for the next 27 years "I was 20 years old, and a Christian when I first met Sy Rogers. I was in the closet and severely troubled as I knew the Assemblies of God church I attended opposed homosexuality. I was invited to a [...]
Jem Clifton and Shane Clifton chat with Anthony Venn-Brown about his religious background, conversion therapy and tireless advocacy for LGBTQI people of faith. Shane and Anthony also reminisce about their long 'queer' friendship. See Anthony and Shane Clifton's 2004 interview, when Shane was a lecturer at Alphacrucis College (The Assemblies of God Bible College here: [...]
"It is time to remove all remaining discrimination of LGBTIQA+ communities and achieve holistic equality. Over the last 40 years, we have broken down many barriers for LGBTIQA+ people to create a brighter future for younger generations. But not all barriers have been removed with discrimination still embedded in a number of laws. The recently released NSW [...]
Walking home alone, after speaking at my first gay rights rally in 2005. I couldn’t understand why I felt so empty and deflated. It wasn’t that I didn’t have the skills to communicate with a crowd. As a high-profile preacher in Australia’s Pentecostal world, I used to preach to congregations in their 1,000s every weekend. [...]
Gays and Lesbians in the Military - WWll (an extract from The Quest to Cure Queers) When World War II arrived, it definitely created the opportunity for an increase of both male and female same-sex sex. Even though there was a concerted effort to keep homosexual men out of the military, they still got in [...]
This Sunday, something I never imagined in my wildest dreams is going to happen. If you’ve read my autobiography, you’ll know that in 1972, I was in a residential Christian program operating out of a church in Sydney’s south to rid myself of my homosexuality. This was before the founding of Exodus (1976), or the [...]
LinkedIn Top LGBTQIA+ Voices: The 20 creators to follow in Australia Published on March 1, 2022 Photo: Getty Images LinkedIn News Australia 541,442 followers Following The inaugural LinkedIn LGBTQIA+ Voices list highlights 20 thought leaders within the Australian LGBTQIA+ community who are posting insightful content and shaping conversations around inclusion and diversity. The honourees in [...]