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Brisbane based singer/songwriter Hope D’s 2021 is off to one cracking start with tickets for her seven city headline EP tour selling out in just a few days and additional demand requiring second shows to be added to the majority of the tour stops! Star Observer had a chat with Hope about her 2021 so far and what it was like putting together her debut EP Cash Only during the pandemic.Hope’s work is based on such personal experiences and I was wondering if it was daunting to put that stuff out

2 min read Auckland and Brisbane have failed to progress their bids for the 2026 Gay Games as the shortlist has been reduced to just three cities. The shortlisted host cities are Guadalajara, Mexico, Munich, Germany, and Valencia, Spain.

The hotly contested competition to host the 2026 Gay Games has progressed. Overnight the Mexican city of Guadalajara, Munich in Germany and Valencia in Spain each progressed to the final round, while the Australian hopes were dashed when Brisbane failed to progress.Held every four years, the games were most recently held in Paris in 2018, and will next year be held in Hong Kong.The bidding process began in January 2020, with 20 cities at the time expressing interest in hosting the games.

Moreton Bay Boys’ College, an elite private school on Brisbane’s east side, has drawn criticism after it was revealed that students are being taught from a book which suggests that God hates homosexuals and links homosexuality to both poor parenting and childhood sexual abuse.The controversial sex education book also discusses how LGBTQI youth can “successfully” become heterosexual and describes people with ambiguous genitalia as “freaks” – in its religion classes.Written by Belinda Elliott Teen