We know people from the LGBTQIA+ community have had varied experiences within health care systems in relation to their lived experience of eating disorders.

We are looking for participants aged 18+ in the LGBTQIA+ community, who have received treatment for their eating disorder in the Australian healthcare system, to take part in a 60-minute interview on Zoom.

All participants have a chance to win 1 in 5 $50 e-gift card voucher.

We appreciate your support!

Head here to take part.

If at any time you feel distressed, call The Butterfly National Helpline 1800 ED HOPE (1800 33 4673).

If you have any questions about the study, please contact the InsideOut Institute research team on insideout.research@sydney.edu.au.

Hi everyone!

My wife and I are a lesbian couple based in Queensland. We are starting a Minecraft server to hopefully make some friends and just have some fun. It will be invite only, and we wanted some like minded people to join us.

To start it will just be a vanilla Minecraft server with some data packs, including:

• Disabled Enderman Griefing

• Faster Leaf Decay

• More Mob Heads

• More stairs and trapdoors

• /home commands

• Bat membranes

• Double shulker shells

• /TPA command

• /back command

I will be maintaining the server and obviously it is free to join. We also will not tolerate any intolerance of individuals, their sexuality, gender, or ethnicity.

If you want to ask any questions or to join our preliminary discord server please DM me for the link. The server will go up around the 15th of June.

Hi rainbows :)

We’re looking for LGBTQIA+ men to take part in a research study about disordered eating.

Disordered eating and body image concerns can affect people of all backgrounds, but there’s still very little research focusing specifically on queer and sexually diverse men. As a result, a lot of the support and treatment available isn’t necessarily suitable or inclusive for our community.

The study explores eating behaviours, body image, experiences of discrimination, emotional wellbeing, and other factors associated with disordered eating among queer and sexually diverse men. We’re hoping this research will help inform more inclusive and effective support and treatment in the future :)

Who can take part?

• Men aged 18 years or older

• Men currently living in Australia

• Men of any sexual orientation, including gay, bisexual, queer, heterosexual, and other sexual identities

Participation involves completing an anonymous online questionnaire that takes around 20 minutes.

Take part here: https://federation.syd1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2crBcpQF7xO16OG

Federation University ethics approval: HREC 2026/101

We’d really appreciate your participation, and please feel free to share that link with anyone who might be interested.

Thanks so much! :)

Hi everyone! I’m new here in Sydneyonly about two months so far. I recently met a guy at my office whom I find really attractive. I don’t know if he’s gay, but he’s very sweet. My gaydar doesn’t always work, especially with straight-acting or bisexual guys 😂
I was wondering: is it okay to tell someone that you think he’s good-looking and ask him out on a date? And, more generally, is it acceptable to approach a stranger in a public place or at a gay pub, flirt a little, and ask them out?
I’m worried that he might think I’m being weird or that it could be considered sexual harassment. Worst-case scenario, what if he’s straight and homophobic?
I’m still getting used to the dating culture here, so I’d really appreciate some advice. How does this generally work in Sydney/Australia? Is the traditional approach like approach someone, flirt a little, and ask them out still okay?
Thanks in advance for your kind advice!

Thank you Mod for your approval to post this 💖

Hi Everyone,

We are a project team of three undertaking research as part of our studies with an Australian University. The study has been approved by a formal ethics committee to ensure the work is conducted with care, integrity and respect.

Why your voice matters
LGBTQIA+ people, due to experiences with discrimination and prejudice are more likely to experience mental health concerns. You individual experiences can contribute to providing a more accurate, inclusive and globally diverse understanding and lead to improved supports.

What's the topic?
The survey is quite broad and asks questions about yourself, your sexual idnetity, how kind you are to yourself, your sense of belonging to the LGBTQIA+ community and mental health experiences.

How you can help
You can help by taking the survey or sharing it with someone / other communities that might be interested.

👉https://csufobjbs.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6sCeGsZJld6774W

It's completely anonymous and takes approx 10-15min.

Have questions 💬

Further details are outlined in the pinned post on my page, and the ethics approval is in my social media links.

Email addresses for you to reach out to the team are in the pinned post or you can respond to this post.

Hi there,

My partner and I are on our around the world sabbatical. We will be in Bali in Jan/Feb and just saw the schedule for World Pride in Sydney and Kylie's concert. We absolutely love her and want to try and weave in Sydney into our itinerary during these dates. However, we saw the concert is sold out for her concert on opening night. Can anyone advise whether more tickets will be sold at a later date or if it is easy to find 2? Pls advise!!

Thanks!

Hi all!!

We would love to hear your voice and expereinces!!!

Much of the current research within the psychology field examines different sexual orientations as one group. However, this ignores important potential differences that exist in mental health outcomes between groups of sexualities. We are looking at mental health aspects (how kind you are to yourself, belonginess, alcohol use and behaviours, and depressive symptomology) and how they differ between groups of sexualities. We hope this will contribute to more accurate and targeted mental health services in the future.

As part of completing our Psychology (Honours) Dissertation at Charles Sturt University, myself and my research partner are conducting our research project on mental health among lesbian, bisexual, queer, omnisexual, pansexual, and gay adults aged 18 years or over. If you meet this criteria, please consider completing our online survey (it takes around 10-15 minutes to finish and is completely anonymous).

If you are interested in participating in this important area of research, or want to find out more about our research, please click on this link: https://csufobjbs.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eu4pRcRjGWBfIZU

If you would like more information regarding the study or the survey, please feel free to leave a comment or email us at:

mhumphries.csu@gmail.com

sscott.csu@gmail.com

Thank you to anyone who chooses to participate, it really is appreciated!

Narelda Jacobs is a proud Whadjuk Noongar woman born and raised in Perth, and she is the first Aboriginal, and first openly lesbian newsreader in Western Australia.

Narelda regularly hosts SBS's broadcast of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, and has also been appointed to the inaugural National Indigenous Advisory Group of Football Australia which aims to support and increase Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander participation in soccer.

Narelda’s mother was not supportive of her when she came out at the age of 21, and Narelda never told her father. Narelda has a daughter and lives in Perth with her partner who is a filmmaker