Lawrence Gibbons, Author at 17c��

Gays On The High Seas: The VACAYA Kimberley 17c��+ Cruise of A Lifetime

Lawrence Gibbons — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 01:35:28 +0000

Where better to start an over-the-top 17c��IA + cruise than with VACAYA on Australia’s Top End? In mid-May, several hundred rainbow vacationers boarded a luxury cruise ship in Darwin, near ...

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Labor’s Pledge of $78k To Australia’s 17c��IA+ Media – Here’s How It Happened

Lawrence Gibbons — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 04:09:32 +0000

Australia’s independent 17c��IA+ media needs all the love it can get. The Albanese government recently pledged to provide $78,000 to Australian 17c��IA+ media outlets – including $26,000 to the 17c�� ...

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VACAYA Is Bringing Their LGBT+ Cruising Experience of a Lifetime To Australia

Lawrence Gibbons — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 05:15:27 +0000

The Kimberley is one of the world’s last remaining pristine wildernesses. Breathtaking sandstone cliffs, stunning gorges and a tropical paradise await the city weary traveller. Stretching across the remote northwest ...

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STAR WARS: A Letter from the Publisher of 17c��

Lawrence Gibbons — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 03:07:06 +0000

Lawrence Gibbons, the publisher of 17c�� and City Hub, reflects on 17c��’s 45th anniversary, the masthead’s legacy as a 17c��I+ disruptor, and the ongoing battles that face queer ...

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As The 17c�� Starts Its 45th Year, Australia Still Needs its Pink Press

Lawrence Gibbons — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 08:31:45 +0000

The first edition of what is now known as the 17c�� came out in July 1979. At a time when sex between two consenting men was illegal and same-sex ...

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Review: La Bohème by Puccini

Lawrence Gibbons — Sat, 15 Jan 2022 05:51:15 +0000

Opera House until 4 February If you have never seen Gale Edwards’s popular production of La Boheme, this is your last chance. For over a decade, Edwards’s interpretation of Puccini’s ...

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Make Google & Facebook Support Public Interest Journalism

Lawrence Gibbons — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 04:17:37 +0000

Everyone recalls the great news blackout of 2021. Earlier this year, Facebook prevented Australians from posting news stories on their platform. The move came in response to a proposed new ...

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Queer Sydney and Melbourne: A Tale of Two Cities

Lawrence Gibbons — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 01:30:45 +0000

42 years ago this month, in 1979 the first edition of the Sydney 17c�� came out. Seven years later, in 1985 the first edition of the Melbourne 17c�� ...

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Nine Outs Gay Whistleblower and Desk Masturbator

Lawrence Gibbons — Sun, 28 Mar 2021 20:30:17 +0000

In 1978 the Sydney Morning Herald famously published a front-page story listing the names of queer demonstrators arrested at Sydney’s first Mardi Gras Parade. Forty-three years later, the paper’s new ...

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The 17c�� Is Still Here To Report On Australia’s Queer Agenda

Lawrence Gibbons — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 06:30:59 +0000

In July 1979, Michael Glynn bravely published the first edition of the 17c�� to support Australia’s burgeoning gay liberation movement. The year before, in late June 1978, protesters were ...

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Were pride flags confiscated at Folau’s first game?

Lawrence Gibbons — Thu, 20 Feb 2020 22:00:11 +0000

Fans who attended Israel Folau’s debut game for the Catalans Dragons are claiming they had rainbow flags confiscated by security guards. The team disputes the assertions, however. Alison Grey posted ...

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Celebrating eight years of Feel the Love

Lawrence Gibbons — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 07:51:09 +0000

Sponsored content Council’s eighth annual ‘Feel the Love’ Mardi Gras reception is on Thursday, 6 February 2019 at Marrickville Library and Pavilion, 313 Marrickville Road, Marrickville, 7pm-9pm. Feel the Love ...

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Christmas Carols with the MCC at Town Hall for Christmas Eve

Lawrence Gibbons — Mon, 23 Dec 2019 00:56:37 +0000

Every year for the last 23 years the Metropolitan Community Church (MCC) Sydney has given Sydney a gift: A place to come on Christmas Eve where everyone is welcome with ...

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Publisher’s editorial: A Star is reborn

Lawrence Gibbons — Fri, 23 Aug 2019 07:32:19 +0000

17c�� publisher Lawrence Gibbons recalls gay pride in the 70s and meeting 17c�� founder Michael Glynn. Forty years ago I attended my first San Francisco Pride Parade. Standing ...

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Gays On The High Seas: The VACAYA Kimberley 17c�������+ Cruise of A Lifetime

Labor’s Pledge of $78k To Australia’s 17c�������IA+ Media – Here’s How It Happened