LGBTIQ Hate Crimes: Violence against lesbians in New South Wales Australia: A journey through the 1980s and 1990s.
There are important differences between anti-lesbian violence and violence against gay men. While both experiences were marked by prejudice and hate, the nature and circumstances of the violence often differed…
LGBTI hate crimes: Taking a stand against abuse of power.
What happened over the years in the Police in New South Wales Australia as regards many of the cases the Special Commission investigated amounted to an abuse of power…
Systems failure: Brittany Higgins and LGBTIQ Hate Crimes in the 1980s and 1990s.
Boomers, as we know, it is all connected…
Persecute and prosecute - LGBTIQ Hate Crimes in the 1980s and 1990s.
Violence against LGBTIQ people has occurred throughout human history.
Fight back - LGBTIQ Hate Crimes in the 1980s and 1990s.
For most LGBTIQ people, violence is no stranger.
Murder and Mobilisation - LGBTIQ Hate Crimes in the 1980s and 1990s.
Until the late 1980s, anti-LGBTIQ violence was to a large extent an unrecognized phenomenon – unrecognised, that is, other than by those experiencing it. Poofter bashing was a national pastime back then and is still common today…
Lost on the Covid-19 knowledge spectrum, yet again!
Dear Boomers, before we wrap ourselves in a bundle of good news, I have a question for you. Where do you sit on the COVID knowledge spectrum? This is not a question about how much you know about COVID, but how this knowledge makes you feel…
Oh baby, are we peaking?
Hey Boomers, remember that special feeling? Many of us felt it at extraordinary events like Mardi Gras. For others it was most weekends. For some, it was a fast way to kick start a slow day. This blog is about a different kind of peaking in our new Covid-19 century.
Goodbye Gladys. Hello Chris (yes, Chris!)
Hey Boomers, we may yet live long enough to see another Labor Premier rule in New South Wales.
Lockdown fetishists, disco fever, and learning to live with Covid-19 today.
Boomers, while it may be too soon to dust down our disco shorts or to order our disco biscuits, the exit out of lockdown is fast approaching.
Gladys, maybe it is time to give our Kevin a call?
Unfortunately, Glady’s cry for more Pfizer vaccines from within our hermit Kingdom has been ignored or rejected. Is it time to get Kevin onto the job?
Anti-vaxxers may be loud and annoying but they are having little success with us Boomers, the age group on the frontline of this pandemic.
The data coming out of the US, the UK and locally in the ACT gives us hope.
Political opportunism gone wrong. Another view on why Australia’s vaccine rollout has been such a mess.
There appears to be growing evidence that the cause of the shambolic vaccine rollout is not just the result of incompetence. Political opportunism or more precisely the desire to ….
Pass the bottle, pass the drugs and shoot me up now. Danger lies ahead!
An eternal optimist was I. A worry wart I have become! The 2021 celebratory champagne is back in the proverbial cellar. The heavily malted whiskey has assumed pride of place next to the …
Covid-19 and salami slicing our rights.
To be fair, threatening to imprison our fellow punters for seeking to return to our fine shores after fleeing from a global health emergency, is not really salami slicing. It is more the equivalent of taking a meat axe to our rights and notions of citizenship…
The Israel-Palestine Crisis
Hi Boomers, we are at this moment again. And unfortunately, it is not peace!
Sweet, sweet dreams and vaccination nightmares.
So, while the punters in the US will celebrate their Independence Day in July and while the punters in the UK will be celebrating their summer, back home in Australia, we will be relying on last year’s strategy to work again this year. We will still be living like it was 2020!
Happy Easter, you wonderful Boomers!
Easter was originally the celebration of Ishtar, the Assyrian and Babylonian goddess of fertility and sex. Her symbols - like the egg and the bunny - were and still are symbols of fertility and sex. Nooooooo, eggs and bunnies do not have anything to do with the resurrection!
Queer Boomers you can dance in Victoria, but just don’t mention hotel quarantine!
The Victorian Government recently announced a further easing of COVID-19 restrictions, including for nightclubs. While this is wonderful news for the people of Victoria who have been hardest hit by the pandemic in Australia, it is not without some irony – in fact a bucket full of irony. Here are my highlights.