October 2013
These are entries collected from various blogs written by Australia's GLBTQ community. They are aggregated here to make it easy for you to follow the blogs and find those that are of interest. If your blog is not listed here please email Panther with your details.
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I like the rain.
Lots of discussion over the last couple of days about the recently released annual surveillance report for HIV, which shows a big jump in the number of HIV notifications for the last year, especially in NSW. Obviously any rise in HIV is concerning and I’ll leave it to the experts to debate the likely causes of that rise, but as I have previously argued, a seemingly important measure of the infection rate remains unreported.
Three years ago, I argued that HIV infections aren’t going up, they’re going down – if you consider that the number of new infections must be a function of the number of people living with HIV, the picture over
...She was very careful to always turn power points off before removing the plug and of course a switch should never be left on if nothing was plugged in.
"Why Grandma?"
"The electricity will leak out."
While logic tells me this is not so and for me it is probably more about aesthetics, I can't help but think at times of the electricity slowly oozing from the power point, invisibly charging everything around, including me, with unused electricity.
So should I visit you, don't think I am too odd if I behave strangely near the power points on your walls. I will only be turning unused points off.
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From Gaytwogethr
Well it's been some time since I've posted here. Pretty much back into the same routine of things with work. No real career progression, I feel it's probably because I've been uninspired/lazy. Alas life does go on. I recently made some reforms coinciding with the election of a new government. I was interstate for an educational program and upon my return I decided to draw a line in the sand. It was finally time to ditch the online dating world and all the that it didn't have to offer. So I got home and deleted Grindr, Jack'd, Manhunt, Match, RVSP, Adam4Adam etc etc. Who knew there were so many? I guess I've learnt over the years that there are D-bags on any and all of those sites and the ones that don't ...
Today was a big day in Australia. The territory that holds our National Capital, The Australian Capital Territory just passed a Same Sex Marriage Bill through Parliament. As of today, Australia has one region where gay marriage is legal. The terrible part of this is that our ridiculously conservative new Prime Minister has said, before the bill was even presented, that he will try to over turn it in the High Court of Australia saying it isn’t constitutional. The people who tabled the bill have worked hard and changed the wording recently to try and make sure that it survives such a challenge.
When we hear that Tony Abbott is going to challenge peoples rights like this and actively remove people’s right to marry, marriages will be annulled if he succeeds, it
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A friend who was at Burning Man with me finally sent me the video that he took of me on the Bucking Duck at the Duck Pond. I’m still mastering how to make gifs of a manageable size. Be patient, this will load. I promise. It is unusual for me to be so bold as to be the centre of attention when nude like I was at the time I was on the duck but I figured who the hell cares? It was so much fun. The whole day was fun, riding through the desert nude from camp to camp having drinks with friends.
