Our response to AHRC regarding preliminary rejection for Lesbian Action Group to host a lesbian-only event
LGB Alliance Australia’s response to the AHRC preliminary decision in the Lesbian Action Group’s application for single-sex exemption.
Enquiry into probity and ethics in the Australian public sector
We were pleased to act as signatories amongst a united cohort with other groups on a submission to the Parliament of Australia, expressing concerns around impartiality from consultation with community groups, in particular (but not limited to) ACON.
LGBTQ Organisations Failing Lesbians
In an interview with Sky News, Nicole Mowbray, member of both LGB Alliance Australia and the Lesbian Action Group, describes “the new homophobia” lesbians are experiencing, with major LGBTQ organisations expressing hostility to lesbians who want to participate in single-sex lesbian events.
Victorian Pride Centre discriminates against lesbian group: help us fight the new homophobia
Victoria’s new Pride Centre has rejected an application to hold a lesbian-only event at the Centre. The Lesbian Action Group, a group of lesbians from Melbourne and Central Victoria, have applied for an exemption from the Australian Human Rights Commission to hold a female-only lesbian event.
More mainstream LGBTQ+ organisations failing the LGB
Mainstream Rainbow Organisations, many of them funded by Government, are failing the LGB. We have done a deep dive using their annual reports to look at trends in their focus and how these have changed over time - in particular, their reduced focus on same-sex attraction.
ACON failing LGB Australians
We did word counts from past ACON annual reports and it shows an alarming trend away from LGB representation.
We’ve put Ballarat Council on notice
The City of Ballarat have signed up to an LGBTIQ “inclusion” plan, but does this best support the inclusion of same-sex attracted people? We say it doesn’t.