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Queer Resource Directory | The mother of them all - 20,000+ files and counting. Excellent starting place for all types of facts and opinions (some of them good, some of them just plain loopy). |
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Queer Resource Directory Australia |
Linked to the above, nicer to look at but not as full. |
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GayLawNet | Scary amount of stuff. Great coverage of 'the issues' and very well laid out. |
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ALSO Foundation | Victoria's largest gay community group. |
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Youth suicide The gay linkage |
An elegant piece of academic work answering the questions surrounding how many youth suicides are linked to sexuality issues and also, by the way, answers the question about just how many gay men and lesbians there really are. Highly recommended, from the QRD but hard to find. |
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PinkBoard | Links and info for every Australian boy and girl |
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Gay & Lesbian Switchboard Melbourne |
Need someone to talk things over with? If so, these trained counsellors are ready to help you with advice, information and referrals. |
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NGLTF | National Gay & Lesbian Task Force US-based caped crusaders in the fight between good and evil. |
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HRC | Human Rights Campaign Also fighting the good fight in the US, but just as applicable for Australians. |
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PFLAG Melbourne |
Parents, Family & Friends of Lesbians and Gays (isn't that PFFLAG?). Mums and Dads working hard for their gay children. Page has a link to the US parent organisation's page. PFLAG is living proof that "Hatred is not a Family Value" |
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Homosexuality Common Q&A |
C Ann. Shepherd's great little summary of the major but spurious points often raised. |
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GLAAD | Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation US-based and working to end stereotyped or homophobic media reporting. |
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Midsumma Melbourne |
Melbourne's month long celebration of gay and lesbian sexuality Read it now, and bookmark this useful contact point for next year. |
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The Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras | One of the World's greatest celebrations - for anything! Similarly to Midsumma link above, read and bookmark. |
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BrotherSister | One of Melbourne's free gay newspapers, easily found along Commercial Road or Brunswick Street. |
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CapitalQ | One of Sydney's free gay newspapers, also found on Commercial Road or Brunswick Street. |
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90.7 Joy FM | Melbourne's own, harder to pick it up than that boy of your dreams you met on the #72 tram. |
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And now for some exciting graphs we have put together. They will all end up in articles of their own (some day...) but for now we thought you may just enjoy them anyway!
They are all drawn from the General Social Survey (GSS) done from the University of Chicago.
If the GSS can only get under 1% of men to tell the interviewer they are homosexual ... what the hell are all those other men who have sex with men calling themselves. According to the GSS, heterosexual! 
A nice correlation between the rise and fall of the fundys and what people think of us. Interesting to also note the rise of anti-gay attitudes pre-dates HIV/AIDS but does coincide with the initial mass coming out of gay men and women - took awhile but it looks like the scare campaign by the fundys has failed in the sheer face of the truth. All the more reason for everyone (who can) to come out. 
And surprise, surprise - it looks like black people don't fare too well when the fundys rise either... 
or mixed race couples... 
or freedom of speech and access to library materials. 
Not sure if this means "wrong" or "wrong for myself" or "wrong for others" - the GSS attitudinal surveys would be more helpful if they cross-questioned at times. 
So let me get this straight - you think we are a menace or a hinderance if we want to volunteer but you'd have no qualms about drafting us? Sounds like you think we deserve the same responsibilities but we don't deserve the same rights. 
Is this not scary and insane? Imagine those dark old days when mixed race couples were controlled by laws (prior to 1967) in the same way gay couples are today. And it appears the US governement or the Courts were in no hurry to move ahead of public opinion - regardless of the fact basic human rights should have nothing to do with needing a majority vote! 
Why don't heterosexuals put as much emphasis on the Biblical rules against divorce? Hmmm, maybe they can see how such laws might hurt them one day. Better leave those let-out clauses in... 
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