Australia’s leading gay and lesbian newspaper
ONLINE TWITTER @star_observerISSUE 1119 FACEBOOK Star ObserverFriday 13 April 2012starobserver.
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au
Est.
1979
GayArabic
Australians
faceviolence
A groundbreaking report released this
week shows same-sex...
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Australia’s leading gay and lesbian newspaper
ONLINE TWITTER @star_observerISSUE 1119 FACEBOOK Star ObserverFriday 13 April 2012starobserver.
com.
au
Est.
1979
GayArabic
Australians
faceviolence
A groundbreaking report released this
week shows same-sex attracted (SSA)
Australians from Arabic-speaking
backgrounds face threats of, or actual,
violence because of their sexuality.
Report author Ghassan Kassisieh (back
left) launched the findings with Liberal
MLC John Ajaka, Arab Council chair Dr
Rosemary Suliman, ACON president Mark
Orr, Labor MLC Helen Westwood (front
left), Australian Human Right Commission
president Catherine Branson and Arab
Council CEO Randa Kattan at NSW
Parliament on Tuesday.
FULL REPORT: Page 20
Homophobic denial
■ Study: Rejection of own sexuality to blame for homophobia
A new study in The Journal of
Personality and Psychology has found
that homophobia is more pronounced
in people with unacknowledged samesex attraction who had authoritarian
homophobic parents.
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