Essay Archives - Star Observer /category/opinion/essay Setting Australia’s LGBTI agenda since 1979 Fri, 07 Feb 2025 00:20:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 /wp-content/uploads/2023/02/starobs.png Essay Archives - Star Observer /category/opinion/essay 32 32 Trump & Queensland: Our Trans Youth Need Us To Show Up For Them, Now /opinion/trump-queensland-our-trans-youth-need-us-to-show-up-for-them-now/235197 /opinion/trump-queensland-our-trans-youth-need-us-to-show-up-for-them-now/235197#respond Thu, 06 Feb 2025 22:15:17 +0000 /?p=235197 ‘Trump & Queensland: Our Trans Youth Need Us To Show Up For Them, Now‘ is an opinion piece by Chloe Sargeant. In the mere weeks (it seems like much longer, ...

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Yes, I’m A Scene Gay, and You Are Too: Confessions From Inside Sydney’s Gay Scene /opinion/yes-im-a-scene-gay-confessions-from-inside-sydney-gay-scene/234871 /opinion/yes-im-a-scene-gay-confessions-from-inside-sydney-gay-scene/234871#comments Thu, 16 Jan 2025 05:43:50 +0000 /?p=234871 ‘Yes, I’m A Scene Gay, and You Are Too: Confessions From Inside Sydney’s Gay Scene’ is a personal essay written by Jacques Nieuwoudt. The theme for the upcoming Sydney Gay ...

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The Ladies League Is Closing, But It Wasn’t A Failure /news/the-ladies-league-is-closing-but-it-wasnt-a-failure/234731 Tue, 07 Jan 2025 04:11:04 +0000 /?p=234731 This week, Australia’s first and only women’s sports bar closed. The Ladies League was open for five months before the Christmas break, and have cancelled their plans to reopen in ...

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Why Is There Barely Any LGBTQ+ Representation In Spotify Wrapped Lists This Year? /news/why-is-there-barely-any-lgbtq-representation-in-spotify-wrapped-lists-this-year/234218 Thu, 05 Dec 2024 22:33:14 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=234218 Spotify Wrapped – the most wonderful time of the year for those who want to look back on what they listened to. For some it’s a day to cringe at ...

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Relationships With Family Can Often Be Complicated When You’re Trans – Here’s Why /opinion/relationships-with-family-can-often-be-complicated-when-youre-trans-heres-why/234116 Fri, 29 Nov 2024 01:07:10 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=234116 ‘Relationships With Family Can Often Be Complicated When You’re Trans – Here’s Why’ is a lived experience opinion piece by Dr Antimony Deor, where they explain a variety of elements ...

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Trans Lives Are Not A Conspiracy – Why Are ‘Transvestigations’ Even A Thing? /opinion/why-are-transvestigations-a-thing/234035 Thu, 28 Nov 2024 06:26:03 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=234035 Over the past year, anti-trans rhetoric has surged in both politics and culture, and the deeply unfortunate phenomenon of ‘transvestigations’ persists. From female athletes like Dakota Davidson and Ilona Maher ...

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As a Baby Queer, Australia’s Under-16 Social Media Ban 100% Would Have Harmed Me /news/as-a-baby-queer-australias-under-16-social-media-ban-100-would-have-harmed-me/234007 Thu, 21 Nov 2024 07:48:28 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=234007 ‘As a Baby Queer, Australia’s Social Media Ban 100% Would Have Harmed Me’ is an opinion piece by Star Observer Managing Editor Chloe Sargeant, about the social media ban for ...

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Life Never Arrived: What It’s Like Going Through Gender Transition When You’re Middle-Aged /news/life-never-arrived-what-its-like-going-through-gender-transition-when-youre-middle-aged/233872 Mon, 18 Nov 2024 04:37:34 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=233872 ‘Life Never Arrived: What It’s Like Going Through Gender Transition When You’re Middle-Aged’ is an opinion piece by Dr. Antimony Deor. When my 36-year-old friend casually called himself middle-aged, I ...

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Banned Book Week And The Dangers Of Censorship /news/banned-book-week-reflecting-on-the-dangers-of-censorship/233111 Fri, 27 Sep 2024 02:55:36 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=233111 This week is Banned Book Week, first celebrated in America in 1982 in response to a surge in calls to ban books in schools, libraries and bookshops. Held annually at ...

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Jacques Nieuwoudt: Gay Male Beauty Standards & Trying to Attain the Unattainable /news/jacques-nieuwoudt-gay-male-beauty-gym-standards/232058 Tue, 16 Jul 2024 06:11:51 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=232058 In this powerful essay, Jacques Nieuwoudt speaks about the unhealthy relationship gay male culture can have with the gym, toxic internalised male beauty standards, and muscle dysmorphia. Nieuwoudt asks if ...

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Exhilaration and Fear: Dennis Altman on the Global Gay Rights Divide /news/exhilaration-fear-dennis-altman-global-gay-rights/231947 Mon, 08 Jul 2024 01:58:48 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=231947 This story, ‘Friday essay: exhilaration and fear – Dennis Altman on the global gay rights divide’, was published via The Conversation AU. by Dennis Altman – Vice Chancellor’s Fellow and ...

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Straight Actors Playing Queer: Are We There Yet? /artsentertainment/straight-actors-playing-queer-are-we-there-yet/231917 /artsentertainment/straight-actors-playing-queer-are-we-there-yet/231917#comments Fri, 05 Jul 2024 04:41:32 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=231917 In a debate that has raged longer than Cher’s career, the LGBTQI+ community have long debated the legitimacy and appropriateness of ‘playing queer’, or straight actors being cast in LGBTQI+ ...

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Here’s the Different Ways Trans Men Can Make Their Penis Bigger /news/different-ways-trans-men-make-penis-bigger/231521 Mon, 10 Jun 2024 02:53:49 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=231521 What does science actually say about how trans folk can make their penis bigger? To be perfectly honest with you – not much at all. There have been no scientific ...

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Season Two of Heartbreak High Makes Diversity Feel ‘Banal’. This is Its Strength /news/season-two-of-heartbreak-high-makes-diversity-feel-banal-this-is-its-strength/230488 Fri, 03 May 2024 09:05:55 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=230488 by Sukhmani Khorana Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture, UNSW Sydney This article is republished from The Conversation Australia   The new season of Heartbreak High is garnering mixed ...

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Lesbian Sex Is More Than Just Scissoring /opinion/lesbian-sex-is-more-than-just-scissoring/217960 Wed, 02 Nov 2022 02:31:08 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=217960 By Aliyah Moore In 2021, 3.3% of adults in the US (aged 18 and up) identified as gay or lesbian by their own self-identified sexual abilities. But while there is ...

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Mark Latham’s Anti-Trans Bill Both Damaging & Unconstitutional /opinion/mark-lathams-anti-trans-bill-both-damaging-unconstitutional/200456 Sat, 06 Feb 2021 07:30:37 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=200456 A parliamentary inquiry into One Nation NSW upper house MP Mark Latham’s anti-trans kids Bill opened recently. The inquiry needn’t bother – the bill is weird and nasty, and would be ...

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Ugly Betty’s Problematic Transgender Character Arc: An Exposé /artsentertainment/ugly-bettys-problematic-transgender-character-arc-an-expose/199988 /artsentertainment/ugly-bettys-problematic-transgender-character-arc-an-expose/199988#comments Wed, 20 Jan 2021 08:30:09 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=199988 It’s been just over 10-years since the cancellation of television’s most beloved comedy-drama series, and there is a lot to reflect on. Now, you might be thinking to yourself, how ...

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Why Australian Schools Need Gay Straight Alliances /opinion/why-australian-schools-need-gay-straight-alliances/196772 /opinion/why-australian-schools-need-gay-straight-alliances/196772#comments Thu, 16 Jul 2020 21:30:25 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=196772 Ben Bonnici, was only in year 2 when he started experiencing homophobic bullying. “They would push me over and tell me to fuck off and make fun of me for ...

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Lesbianism Vs Feminism /opinion/lesbianism-vs-feminism/195832 Sun, 07 Jun 2020 06:30:43 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=195832 Feminism: the advocacy of women’s rights on the ground of the equality of the sexes. With the first rallying cry beginning with the The Suffragettes in the 19th century calling ...

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‘Blackwashing’ Pride /opinion/blackwashing-pride/195863 /opinion/blackwashing-pride/195863#comments Sun, 07 Jun 2020 02:30:51 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=195863 How Committed are LGBTQI Groups to Fighting Racism? When the Black Lives Matter campaign stops ‘trending’, will LGBTQI groups remember their commitment to fighting racism? The tragic and inexcusable death ...

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