21 posts
A queer theatre company was evicted from a former Sydney church eight days after opening. John 9 has a scene the church rarely preaches. The healed man's parents are summoned; they know exactly what happened, and they refuse to say it. Fear of losing their place costs their son everything. Some of you have heard that silence.
NSW Supreme Court dismissed almost all of Kirralie Smith's and Binary Australia's appeal against the first findings of transgender vilification under NSW law (Smith v Blanch; Smith v Dennis [2026] NSWSC 879). The court confirmed the pair unlawfully vilified two transgender women who wanted nothing more than to play football with their teammates.
A transgender advocate examines David Crowe's Sydney Morning Herald column on Amnesty International's withdrawn anti-rights report, testing its logic against the original document. The report names JK Rowling's centre once among 117 organisations and never mentions Rowling herself, while documenting rapid growth in gender-critical and Christian-right campaigning since 2017.
A short, raw confession about staying silent during the AIDS crisis and church debates while closeted, and the guilt of having hidden.
A sermon on John 9 and Jesus executing justice, drawing parallels between today’s Western politics and pre-Hitler Germany.
On the Manly Sea Eagles pride-jersey boycott, proposing patient, culturally aware dialogue between LGBTIQA+ and Pasifika players.
A letter to the Governor-General opposing Margaret Court’s upgraded Order of Australia, cataloguing her anti-LGBTIQA+ commentary.
An ally’s response to Senator Claire Chandler’s Senate speech and op-ed on a gender-change bill.
Responds to JK Rowling’s tweets and blog on trans people, noting the Harry Potter actors’ support for the transgender community.
A Mardi Gras play on NSW gay-hate murders prompts a personal reflection on Adelaide and Sydney’s history of anti-gay violence.
A blog version of the author’s submission on Exposure Draft 2, written as a businessman, Christian and gay man.
Submission to the NSW Curriculum Review on PDHPE, arguing for inclusive education amid the religious discrimination debate.
Formal submission to the Attorney-General opposing the religious freedom bills as a danger to LGBTIQA+ people, women and others.
Argues the Israel Folau saga compounds cumulative trauma in the LGBTIQA+ community, drawing parallels with other traumatised groups.
A rebuttal to a former chaplain’s defence of Israel Folau, drawing on homophobia-in-sport research and the author’s own gay Christian experience.
Rebuts conservative attacks on trans people, citing Cornell research on the well-being of transgender people.
Critiques Os Guinness’s prayer breakfast address, arguing the religious freedom movement seeks “freedom from” LGBTIQA+ people.
Sparked by a Sydney Pride rally, uses the Book of Ruth to ask where Jesus would stand on identity politics and LGBTIQA+ rights.
Reads John 9, the man born blind, as a parallel to churches today excluding people who do not fit their rules.
Uses a Danish TV film on shared humanity to reframe communion as radical inclusion of all, with no exceptions.
Reflects on the Beatitudes and argues the “religious freedom” push lets darkness in rather than the light of Christ.