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Former Liberal minister and Independent NSW member of Parliament Gareth Ward (40) was on Tuesday charged over alleged historic allegations of sexual abuse of a man and a teenage boy. Ward, member for Kiama, attended Oak Flats Police Station on Tuesday. The NSW police charged him “with three counts of assault with act of indecency, and one count each of sexual intercourse without consent and common assault”.The police case is that Ward allegedly indecently assaulted a 17-year-old teenage boy at Meroo Meadow in February 2013, and sexually abused a 27-year-old man in Sydney in September 2015.NSW MP Gareth Ward was charged on March 22, 2022, with historic sexual abuse of a man and a teenage boy.

Daily Mail reports.A New South Wales police spokesperson confirmed to news.com.au police attended the scene. His death is not being treated as suspicious.

2 min read The newly elected Labor government of New South Wales (NSW) has revealed the permanent location for Sydney’s LGBTQI museum, Qtopia – the old Darlinghurst Police Station.

1 min read Celebrating the Launch of Sydney WorldPride – Ava Max has been announced to join the epic line-up at the official closing concert Rainbow Republic presented by Optus at The Domain on Sunday, 5 March 2023.

The Bookshop Darlinghurst, Australia’s oldest LGBTQI bookstore, turns 40 this month.In recent years, The Bookshop has weathered the impacts of COVID, economic and political uncertainty and inclement weather, and for a while its future was precarious.

A new plan for a queer memorial and museum on Oxford Street is in development.Unlike other major cities such as Melbourne, whose Victorian Pride Centre opened in July this year, Sydney does not yet have a museum that celebrates the history, achievements, and lives of the city’s queer community.“This is a major omission that needs to be rectified,” asserted Qtopia Sydney, the group leading the charge to open a queer museum by WorldPride 2023.Among the possible locations for the museum include the

The Daily Telegraph reported that being refused entry to the venue set McKenzie off. He verbally abused the security, saying to them that they were a “fucking cunt”.

told the Daily Telegraph.Clabburn fell off the ladder he was on, tumbling 10 feet to the ground — and ended up suffering fatal cardiac arrest from the blood loss from his slashed hand.“When I went out to the back garden, he was crawling on the ground on his stomach, said Clabburn’s wife, Melissa. “There was so much blood, he was clutching his torso.

The New South Wales Police are looking for a red sedan that was reportedly driven by homophobic hoons who attacked ABC reporter Mark Reddie and his friends on Sunday morning, hours after the Sydney Lesbian and Gay Mardi Gras parade.

The Iconic gym City Gym in Darlinghurst, which has been operating in the same location for over 40 years, and recently underwent a major 7-month, $1.5 million renovation, is holding a FREE Mardi Gras themed Fair Day on February 27 in support of mental health charity Beyond Blue.Beyond Blue is a charity particularly close to City Gym’s heart, having tragically lost three of their members due to depression in recent months, so the gym decided to take action and hold a special day to bring

Scott White has plead not guilty to the murder of American PhD student Scott Johnson in an alleged hate crime 32 years ago. White, who was 18 at the time of the murder, was arrested in May 2020 after a key informant came forward and helped break the cold case, and one of Sydney’s longest unresolved murders. Police allege that the pair met at a hotel in December 1988 before walking through bushland to a local gay beat spot at North Head.

McIver’s Ladies Baths in Coogee updated their website on Monday after being called out for an exclusionary statement about transgender women.The original text read: “Only transgender women who’ve undergone a gender reassignment surgery are allowed entry. Please contact us for further information if required.”The updated text is less direct: “Yes.

Sphen and Magic, SEA LIFE Sydney Aquarium’s gay penguin couple, have become parents for a second time. The couple first gained world-wide fame in 2018 when they adopted an egg and raised their first child Lara. They have now successfully hatched another egg together.The folks at SEA LIFE Sydney Aquarium were naturally delighted when they shared this news with Star Observer.“If one of our pairs has too many eggs or are not good at looking after their eggs we will sometimes foster these eggs out

This weekend Queer Screen Film Festival in Sydney and Melbourne Queer Film Festival will be debuting the new feel good film Stage Mother starring Jacki Weaver, Lucy Lui and Adrian Grenier alongside Maya Taylor and legendary drag performer Jackie Beat. The film centres on Maybelline, played by Jacki Weaver, a conservative Texas church choir director whose estranged son, a gay San Francisco club owner, suddenly dies from a drug overdose.

A restaurant in the “heart of gay Sydney” is facing calls for boycott after its owner posted a homophobic message on .A social media backlash swiftly followed, but Iftekhar Hasan, the owner of Yilmaz Grill and Bakehouse in the Waterloo area, initially doubled down and defended his post. It was only after locals started to mark down his restaurant’s online rating that Hasan posted a lengthy apology.

In yet another covid-cancellation Los Angeles base musician Lauv has announced that the Australian and New Zealand leg of his ~how i’m feeling~ tour will be rescheduled to 2021. The announcement comes in response to government directives and the ongoing carnage caused by the pandemic.The tour follows from the recent success of Lauv’s debut album of the same name.

As TikTokkers are finding viral fame during lockdown with a myriad of entertaining dances and mindless hours throwing ping-pong balls into cups, Australian drag artists are sharing their own versions of the “#passthebrush” internet challenge.

A transgender woman was brutally attacked and left unconscious by 15-20 men who then fled the scene at a Dee Why beach carpark.

Jason Alexander has responded to a fan who was “humiliated and ashamed” by a comment he made about her during a Q&A.

Singer Solange has pulled the plug on two of her upcoming residency shows at Australia’s famed Sydney Opera House due to an undisclosed medical issue.