As previously mentioned, Canada’s HIV/AIDS community welfare organisations are getting angry about the levels of public health cuts directed at prevention and support activities in their country. I also mentioned a new initiative entitled Increase AIDS Funding Canada, so here’s a peek at their activities.
Now, surely it would stand to reason for any health economist […]

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In Australia, there’s a massive conservative Catholic frenzy going on over something called “World Youth Day.” Given New Zealand’s weak conservative Catholic influences, there hasn’t been as much hype here.
World Youth Day was the creation of the late Pope John Paul II, and started in 1984. According to Wikipedia, the get-togethers have a fairly elastic […]

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 If Canada’s federal Tories and its social conservatives expected Finance Minister Jim Flaherty’s threat to call a general election on the issue of the Income Tax Amendment Bill/Bill C-10 would silence its multiplying critics over the increasingly contentious federal tax credit withdrawal to media projects considered ‘against’ public policy, such hope was again proven forelorn […]

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 Canada’s Liberals appear to have some high-calibre figures waiting in the wings during their period in the Opposition wilderness.  One such figure is former Junior Health Minister Carolyn Bennett, who has done excellent public health work in the past, and has been a supportive ally of Canada’s LGBT communities within her party.
In a recent issue […]

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Welcome to a quirky little tale that I dreamt up to background a rather striking faux movie review in IPC’s adult SF comic series Crisis, involving two battling red and black clad nuns, scalpels and mayhem. Enjoy…
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In the Belgian convent, Sister Gertrude yelled obscenities at the new management of her institution, where she alone had been […]

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When it comes to empowering the developmentally disabled, one would think that organisations should put the welfare of their charges first, above sectarian employment preferences. Surely, in such circumstances, organisations should select and maintain employment on the basis of merit and carer qualifications.
In the case of Canada’s evangelical/fundamentalist developmental disability carer’s group “Christian” Horizons, apparently […]

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From the Kapiti Christian Centre, John Mills of Paekakariki was elected as president of the Society for Promotion of Community Standards  (SPCS). at its AGM (April 21).Mr Mills believes that “corruption in high places” is related to decriminalisation of sex work, family fragmentation and violence against women, drugs, “addiction to erotic media”, paedophilia, and other “vices”. Goodness- […]

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 Richard Green and K.Silem Mohammed (ed) The Undead and Philosophy: Chicken Soup for the Soulless:  Chicago: Open Court Press: 2006.
How does the sudden emergence of gay zombies segue into general discussions about the undead in question? I pondered this as I perused this handy volume on the aforesaid fictional beasties.
Insofar as ‘gay’ zombies are concerned, […]

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In a recent New Statesman, Brendan O’Neill discusses the worrying re-emergence of the neofascist British National Party in English politics, capped by Richard Barnbrook’s election victory.
Once again, Barnbrook has changed his tune on LGBT politics incidentally. Now, he doesn’t disavow his past at the Royal Academy of the Arts and time spent alongside the late […]

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Welcome back to the near-future world of Decima, where the ‘gay gene’ has confered immunity to a devastating global pandemic that killed all of Earth’s heterosexual population…
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It’s been three months since my world changed forever.  I sit here, looking at the trio of white pills within my dish, wondering what I should do next.
Before the […]

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