LGBTQ
Former Lion and SANFL legend becomes AFL’s first openly gay player
After a short stay at the Lions, Leigh Ryswyk went on to complete a stellar career in the SANFL where he played 226 games for North Adelaide and was later inducted into the Queensland Football Hall of Fame.
- Rob Sharp
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Netflix confirms queer love story for next Bridgerton season
The streaming giant has released a teaser for the upcoming season of the popular regency romance, which will include the show’s first same-sex love story.
- Kayla Olaya
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- Opinion
Sydney’s gay village is dying – here’s what it means for our city
The Stonewall Hotel, long a shining star of LGBTQ Sydney, is setting in the city’s east … and yet another one is rising in the west.
- Gary Nunn
Stonewall’s not dead, it’s just found its new life in Newtown
The Stonewall Hotel is just the latest LGBTQ venue to close on the strip as queer Sydneysiders look to the inner west for a night out.
- Jessica McSweeney and Kayla Olaya
Parliament to hold inquiry into human rights act for NSW
A group of MPs and legal groups had called on the state government to investigate introducing a human rights act in NSW, as tough new laws to combat homophobic hate crimes are revealed.
- Jessica McSweeney
Greens pay legal bill after losing fight with party founder over trans row
The Queensland Greens have agreed to pay co-founder Drew Hutton’s legal costs after his successful bid to have his membership reinstated, following his expulsion last year.
- Cameron Atfield
Mardi Gras 2026: 10,000 revellers, more than 200 floats parade on Oxford Street for Sydney’s 48th Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras celebrations
Follow our live coverage as thousands of people prepare to march down Oxford Street for the 48th annual Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade.
- Cindy Yin and Emily Kowal
Heath and Darren met at Mardi Gras 30 years ago. This year they said, ‘I do’
Had the two men, who at the time were not out, not travelled to Sydney’s Oxford Street that night in 1996, “it might have just been a friendship”.
- Kayla Olaya
Activist float excluded from Mardi Gras parade
Mardi Gras organisers have kicked out the Pride in Protest group after it made social media posts claiming a Jewish float supported genocide.
- Kayla Olaya
Rose was happily married for 21 years. Then she came out as a lesbian
Often referred to as “late in life lesbians”, women who come out in midlife have experienced increased visibility over the past 20 years.
- Courtney Thompson