Your weekly five minute bulletin from the Q-mmunity Network News (QNN) team providing the diverse lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgender, queer and intersex communities with the latest Australian and international LGBTIQA+ news and sport.

In news this week,  Sydney World Pride 2023/Mardi Gras pre-sale tickets sell out in minutes,  RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under is back, Queensland Health records first case of Monkeypox, fresh calls to exhume Dr George Duncan’s body, and alarm over proposal to ban homosexuality in Iraq.

In sport this week, British Triathlon creates ‘open’ category for transgender athletes, Brittney Griner pleads guilty to Russian drug charge, and Megan Rapinoe wins award and continues LGBTIQA+ advocacy work.