Maurice Farrell

  • International Day Against Homophobia marked

    Close to 100 people attended a May 17 Community Action Against Homophobia (CAAH)-organised International Day Against Homophobia (IDAHO) rally in Newtown to commemorate the day the World Health Organisation took homosexuality off its list of mental disorders.

  • Fighting the AIDS pandemic

    BY MAURICE FARRELL& RACHEL EVANS According to a UNAIDS/World Health Organisation report "AIDS Epidemic Update 2003", released on November 25, an estimated 40 million people are now infected with HIV. Three million died last year from AIDS. The

  • Magistrate backs right to protest

    SYDNEY — On October 27, a Hornsby Local Court magistrate agreed with protest organisers that the police acted illegally on July 19 in blocking off access to the front of the home of the then immigration minister, Philip

  • Troubles for gay and lesbian events

    SYDNEY — Reporting on its 2002 readership survey, the October 10 Sydney Star Observer stated that “the gay and lesbian market remains buoyant, despite the difficulties faced this year by peak event-based community

  • Stonewall remembered

    SYDNEY — More than 200 people joined a rally and march on June 27 to commemorate the 33rd anniversary of the Stonewall Bar riot in New York City, considered the birthplace of the modern lesbian and gay rights movement.