Dear Journal…. 😀 It has been ten months since my last post, starting out on this new journey and creating a business. It has been such a hard slog. I have been fortunate to of had business referrals from people I have worked with previously. Though finding net new business has been a learning curve. …
The days were everything just gets in your way? You wake up tired. Your bus/train is late, or gets delayed on the way. Other pedestrians in front of you just seem to constantly get in your way. These are the days when trying to stay calm just feels impossible. I had one of those days …
Written by Ellen Scott Originally published metro.co.uk (Monday 10 Apr 2017 7:39 am) Since I’ve started being honest about my mental health, I’ve noticed that my relationships have changed – mostly for the better. There’s more trust there. We’re able to talk about bigger things. Now that I’ve opened up, the people around me …
Written by Chris Hill Originally published on Facebook Today is a fucking amazing day because today after so many obstacles: love won ❤️???? This is the Australia i know and love ???️? I am so happy today for the older generation LGBTI who used to get beaten and kicked out of underground gay bars and …
Written By Laurence Barber (From Star Observer 20 Sept 2017) Who cares if the ‘no’ camp is offended by our demands for equality? We have every right to be furious. For pretty much our entire lives, we’re forced to think about the version of ourselves we put across in public. As LGBTQIA people, we’re burdened …
I want to preface this with the simple fact two wrongs don’t make a right. No one should be bullied or victimised. Now try to fully empathise with the LGBTI community, bear with me I’m not trying to lecture here. But this is a community which has been having to fight against homophobia and bigotry …
The debate over same-sex marriage has the potential to elevate and amplify harmful messages. With the same-sex marriage postal survey now in full swing, children and young people across Australia are about to bear witness to an ugly and prolonged debate, and will also find themselves targeted by it.
Written By Gary Nunn (Reproduced from The Age Sep 18 2017) The marriage equality debate is unearthing attitudes I didn’t realise were so strongly felt in 2017. Whatever you want to call them – some use the term ‘homophobes’; other terms are stronger or more neutral depending on who you ask – one thing is …
Originally Written By Matt Jowett I want to say “find the no vote in your friends list and talk to them” but after the last 45 min Facebook chat with the No vote Christian in my list I want to gouge my eyes out with hot wire. It’s not “okay” to say no, the message …
Originally Written By Samuel Leighton-Dore Nobody was calling for a respectful debate back in 2004, when I was thirteen-years-old, being beaten up on the schoolyard during my first day of high school. Boys were shouting “faggot” across the schoolyard and I was being held by my neck against a brick wall by one of the …