John Meyer, Author at Star Observer /author/jmeyer Setting Australia’s LGBTI agenda since 1979 Thu, 08 Aug 2013 01:21:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 /wp-content/uploads/2023/02/starobs.png John Meyer, Author at Star Observer /author/jmeyer 32 32 COLUMN: Dissonance, if you dare /opinion/column-dissonance-if-you-dare/107447 Thu, 08 Aug 2013 01:21:15 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=107447   When I came out, it was a momentous affair with incredible discomfort and an obscene level of bewilderment. My ex (and only) boyfriend to date remembers fondly pictures from the ...

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GUEST COLUMN: I’ll be happy, when… /opinion/guest-column-ill-be-happy-when/107457 Thu, 01 Aug 2013 06:42:27 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=107457 The water is lapping gently at my face.  So warm, even though I’m rocking in the ocean, the sun caressing my face.  I can hear my breathing much louder under ...

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Dot your I’s, cross your T’s and get off Grindr /opinion/dot-your-is-cross-your-ts-and-get-off-grindr/106755 Fri, 19 Jul 2013 01:26:04 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=106755 I have a new editor.  This one is quite insistent I keep writing as he peers over my shoulder.  He’s tough.  He wonders why I need to keep stopping and ...

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OPINION: Country sex and the city /opinion/soapbox-opinion/opinion-country-sex-and-the-city/106555 Thu, 18 Jul 2013 23:42:00 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=106555 The guys in the countryside (this is further out than Newtown in case you’re wondering) are an interesting group.  There are some slim pickings in behind gum trees and paddocks.  ...

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Generation Google /opinion/soapbox-opinion/generation-google/106131 Tue, 09 Jul 2013 01:06:54 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=106131 Beau climbed into the front seat and pulled the door shut. ‘So when are we going to the gallery Dad?’ ‘We can go anytime you like, we have two weeks ...

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Between contracts /opinion/between-contracts/105725 Thu, 27 Jun 2013 02:33:11 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=105725 By the time you read this, I shall be shooting the ‘in-between-contracts’ breeze. Yep, I’ll be unemployed – however ‘between contracts’ is more positive. You might be reading this on ...

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Soccer moms vs straight morons /opinion/soapbox-opinion/soccer-moms-vs-straight-morons/105162 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:49:24 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=105162 I bagged a bargain the other lunchtime, two pairs of shoes for the price of one. A guy can’t have too many. I stuffed the bag under a chair and ...

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What becomes of the witness? /opinion/soapbox-opinion/what-becomes-of-the-witness/104859 Tue, 11 Jun 2013 23:15:48 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=104859 I was planning on writing some cutesy anecdotal piece from last weekend with the kids. It fell flat on its head as soon as I saw coverage of the children ...

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Welcome to pre-teens /opinion/soapbox-opinion/welcome-to-pre-teens/104469 Tue, 04 Jun 2013 14:00:09 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=104469 I took the men down to the oval, we took a soccer ball and we took the football. I will now equate the football to the third anti-christ. It turned ...

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Take a bow /opinion/soapbox-opinion/take-a-bow/104266 Wed, 29 May 2013 02:00:13 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=104266 I received a most wonderful note on my page on Facebook. It wasn’t a love note, rather a note to tell me about a reader’s own story about child abuse ...

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Who the hell (day) cares? /opinion/soapbox-opinion/who-the-hell-day-cares/104171 Wed, 22 May 2013 04:05:21 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=104171 I traverse the city to work each morning, dodging wildly pushed prams by ballet slippered mums and suited dads with curly haired half pyjamas half jump-suited toddlers waiting impatiently in ...

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Men for Dummies /opinion/soapbox-opinion/men-for-dummies/103907 Thu, 16 May 2013 03:38:10 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=103907 I hazard to say that men are universally the same, no matter their persuasion.  I am trying to teach a straight girlfriend the rules on dating men.  She’s not coping ...

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Cul de sac /opinion/soapbox-opinion/cul-de-sac/103644 Thu, 09 May 2013 05:44:58 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=103644 No this column isn’t about a new back, sack and crack method. I have been having a reoccurring dream. Every time I dream about it, I feel like I’m on ...

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Collins and Roberts: willing and unknowing pioneers /opinion/soapbox-opinion/collins-and-roberts-willing-and-unknowing-pioneers/103353 Fri, 03 May 2013 04:05:07 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=103353 This week we saw Jason Collins become the first gay male professional athlete in a major US team sport.  Yes, that was a lot of criteria to jump through, but hey, ...

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The mathematician, the sport nut and the gay /opinion/soapbox-opinion/the-mathematician-the-sport-nut-and-the-gay/103072 Sun, 28 Apr 2013 22:11:03 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=103072 I love autumn in Sydney.  You get the European summer – the warm days, cool nights.  Gelato sticky webbed fingers,  twenty three degree sea water in Coogee and third degree ...

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With courage, let us all combine. /opinion/soapbox-opinion/with-courage-let-us-all-combine/102720 Thu, 18 Apr 2013 05:16:21 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=102720 My very dear and very German mate Claus became an Aussie last Friday afternoon.  It was a warm autumn afternoon standing outside waiting at the Town Hall.  I couldn’t believe ...

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Coal with a diamond covering /opinion/soapbox-opinion/coal-with-a-diamond-covering/102284 Thu, 11 Apr 2013 01:28:23 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=102284 I’m angling for forgiveness after this tirade, certainly not permission to have it.  Guilty or not, I don’t care.  I am furious that people can continue to live solely within ...

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Mr Chicky, Governor of RBA /opinion/soapbox-opinion/mr-chicky-governor-of-rba/101902 Fri, 05 Apr 2013 03:43:40 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=101902 I forgot it was parent/teacher night until I was dragged kicking and screaming up to the school the other night. Dawn was gossiping with the other parents and I was ...

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Put your hand on your heart and tell me /opinion/soapbox-opinion/put-your-hand-on-your-heart-and-tell-me/101506 Tue, 02 Apr 2013 21:52:01 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=101506 The slightest interest can be futile.  It can uncork you and make you feel empty.  Depleted.  His text, a smile – his arm around your shoulder.  You turn up to ...

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Between midnight and twilight /opinion/between-midnight-and-twilight/100872 Wed, 20 Mar 2013 23:00:23 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=100872 I arrived in the darkest hour of the night.  The streets were silent but for the swaying silhouette branches – it took me a moment to realise there was a ...

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