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How will the LGBTI community benefit from a Human Rights Act for Queensland?
A State Human Rights Act, in the right form, could remove the lawful discrimination of the LGBTI community in the Anti-Discrimination Act...
QLRC submission – expunging criminal convictions
The LGBTI Legal Service is very pleased to have made a further submission to the Queensland Law Reform Commission on the issue of expunging criminal...
The Queensland Government delivers an apology that rights historical wrongs
Alan Raabe and LGBTI advocates will hold a doorstop press conference after the apology takes place in parliament in the courtyard in front of...
“Like Love” – Stop Hate Speech
The LGBTI Legal Service is running the Like Love project to address vilification during the Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey period....
Righting the wrongs of Queensland’s homophobic past: Government to allow to clear unjust convictions
Overnight, the Queensland Parliament passed a law that will provide a way for people to have convictions for consensual same-sex activity removed...
‘Like Love’ project reveals hotbed of hate speech throughout Marriage Survey period
The LGBTI Legal Service has collected over 220 examples of hate speech throughout the Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey in a project aimed at...
Transgender Marriage Equality Law Announced
The LGBTI Legal Service celebrates the announcement by the Queensland Government of changes to be introduced to the Births, Deaths and Marriages...
Expungement of Historical Homosexual Convictions
The following media release was published by the Human Rights Law Centre...
Joint Statement on the Religious Freedom Review recommendations from LGBTI organisations, leaders and allies
Source: Human Rights Law Centre via...
Anti-discrimination Vilification Case Filed Against Hate Speech During the Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey
The LGBTI Legal Service lodged today a complaint of vilification against 25 people responsible for engaging in public acts of hate speech during the...