The Informer

On tonight’s edition of The Informer we spoke with Felicity Marlowe from Rainbow Families Victoria about Midsumma’s recent decision to cease advertising with News Corp for its 2017 festival. Members of the LGBTI community criticised the […]

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Harvey Milk was one of the first openly gay politicians voted into public office in the US, and his assassination in 1978 was the subject of an award-winning Hollywood film. Stuart Milk is his nephew […]

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Midsumma CEO Karen Bryant joins The Informer to explain their controversial sponsorship deal. Fiona Patten MLC, leader of the Australian Sex Party, talks to us about the decision by the Victorian Government to introduce legislation on […]

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In the last parliamentary week for 2016, Victoria’s Liberal National Coalition deny two very important Bills, and in doing so, make it abundantly clear they have absolutely no comprehension of LGBTI people, their communities or […]

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Melbourne’s Midsumma Festival turns 30 in 2017 with an exciting program with more than 130 events in over 70 venues. We find out more from Programming Manager Daniel Santangeli. Dr Clovis Palmer from the Burnet Institute joins […]

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We chat with Tina Healy about a delivery of transphobia along with the Dominos pizza that she had delivered recently, and the response from the pizza chain. We talk with Joel Murray about the upcoming […]

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Last week,  13-year-old Tyrone Unsworth took his life following years of relentless bullying over his sexuality. Today, Kids Helpline reported a steady increase in LGBTIQ kids reaching out to their counselling service for support. The first half of […]

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On tonight’s edition of The Informer we were joined by Victoria’s recently awarded 2017 Young Australian of the Year, Jason Ball. Since coming out in 2012 Ball has worked tirelessly to champion LGBTI inclusion in […]

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Last week The Informer’s Dean Beck attended the annual sexual health conference ASHM in Adelaide where he caught up with Jules Kim, CEO of the Scarlet Alliance, an organisation that advocates for sex worker rights. And […]

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The Victorian AIDS Council has launched a powerful new campaign in the lead up to World AIDS Day. Posters are up around Melbourne and its neighbouring suburbs. Tonight we talk with Simon Ruth CEO of […]

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