Destiny Rogers

Fresh allegations of sexual assault emerged against Alan Jones this weekend after the former shock jock, teacher, and rugby coach celebrated the 50th reunion of a premiership team he coached to victory. Late last year, Channel 9 papers reported that throughout his life, Jones used positions of power to prey on young men. First as a teacher, then as a radio broadcaster, Jones allegedly wielded immense power in the lives of the young men who he alleged abused. The allegations were immediatel…

The Pride in Sport Awards saw a range of organisations and individuals named as the country’s most LGBTQ+ inclusive in Melbourne last night. Honorees included Macquarie University Sport, Hockey Australia, NBL, Touch Football Australia as well as Tennis Australia. The Awards are dedicated to acknowledging exceptional efforts in making Australian sport more inclusive of LGBTQ+ people. Australia’s largest LGBTQ+ health organisation, ACON, spearheads the not-for-profit program. The Pride in…

Siala Robson, former finalist on The Voice faces charges of assaulting her former partner when she appeared via videolink in Redcliffe Magistrates Court this week. The singer is charged with two counts of common assault in public place while adversely affected by intoxicating substance. She also faces a count of assault occasioning bodily harm in public while adversely affected by intoxicating substance. All three are domestic violence offences. Magistrate Mark Bucknall described the alleg…

Former radio broadcaster Alan Jones has announced his return to Australia after an extended stay in London. Jones went to England in December after threatening legal action over allegations of indecent assault. The Herald and Age newspapers detailed allegations from five men that Alan Jones sexually assaulted them during his radio career. Before his retirement Jones wielded significant influence as a top-rating talk-back host with the ear of Australia’s conservative politicians. In a vi…

Foreign Minister Penny Wong married long-term partner Sophie Allouache in Adelaide last night in a ceremony attended by friends and family including Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. Penny Wong and Sophie Allouache met almost twenty years ago and share two daughters. Although they had not previously acknowledged their engagement, media reports in December indicated the pair would wed this year. Guests included Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his fiancee Jodie Haydon. Health Minister Mar…

NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb today apologised to the families of gay hate crime victims in response to the findings of the Special Commission of Inquiry into LGBTIQ hate crimes. The inquiry investigated the suspicious deaths and unsolved murders of LGBTIQ people in NSW from 1970 until 2010. Justice Sackar of the Supreme Court of NSW headed the inquiry, which examined 34 deaths over 40 years. The Justice found reason to suspect that LGBTIQ bias was a factor in 21 deaths. He found tha…

Over two decades of advocacy has paid off for Queensland sex workers with the state government introducing legislation to parliament Thursday to finally decriminalise all forms of sex work. Queensland currently allows two forms of legalised sex work - services provided at licensed brothels or by sole operators. The law defines sole operators as persons working alone from a premise, providing in-house calls, outcall services, or both. All other forms of sex work remain illegal including esc…

Blame quickly attaches to the LGBT community in the American-inspired culture wars seeping into Australian daily life. So quelle surprise that someone has found a way to credit us for the annual War on Australia Day crap. BTW, no one banned anything. The soulless corporations that run the bulk of our supermarkets only GAF about one thing — profit. No moral imperative compelled any of them to stop stocking thongs bedecked with Australian flags. Peter Dutton and that antiquated radio performanc…

Gaylor fan theory has been around for years: the idea that Taylor Swift is queer and leaves easter eggs (hints) to that effect in her music. A nearly 5,000-word NY Times article on Thursday repeated the theory. However, being posher than Reddit, the Times called easter eggs ‘dropped hairpins’. The op-ed listed ‘evidence’ that Swift, a loud ally of the LGBTQIA+ community, is actually a member of that community. Anna Marks, a queer NY Times editor, claims the numerous alleged queer reference…

The legendary pink dollar potentially enables the LGBTQIA+ communities to wield immense influence. Market researchers LGBT-Capital estimate our aggregate spending power as almost AU$5 trillion globally in 2019. In Australia, we spent over AU$95 billion. First published January 22, 2023 by Destiny Rogers. Update by Destiny Rogers December 31, 2023. Corporations understand the power of the pink dollar. An increasingly digitised world provides oodles of data to inform advertising expenditures. T…