Questions remain over ambassadorWritten by Iain Clacher Wednesday, 03 December 2008 12:17Gay health workers and activists say they remain concerned about the appointment of a Men’s Health Ambassador who signed an anti-gay manifesto.The manifesto, 21 Reasons Why Gender Matters, claims that being gay is a “pathology” that “encourages the sexual and psychological [...]
Another sacking demanded over ‘anti-gay’ document
Another sacking demanded over ‘anti-gay’ document
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Sacking demanded … the Coaltion for Equality says Mr Williams’s views on same-sex couples mean he should not be a men’s health ambassador. (Reuters: Max Rossi, file photo)
Audio: Health ambassador Williams ‘nothing to do’ with anti-gay material (ABC News)
Audio: Two men’s health ambassadors under review (AM)
Related Story: Roxon sacks health ambassador [...]
Roxon’s ambassadors: homophobic, sexist and totally inappropriate
THURSDAY, 27 NOVEMBER 2008
Canberra correspondent Bernard Keane writes:
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The nauseating views of Warwick Marsh, revealed by Crikey following a reader’s tip yesterday, have cost him his men’s health ambassadorship. Nicola Roxon this morning described his views as abhorrent and, when he declined to repudiate them, sacked him.
Good riddance and the less said [...]
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Roxon under fire over ‘anti-gay’ health ambassadors
Roxon under fire over ‘anti-gay’ health ambassadors
http://www.theage.com.au/national/roxon-under-fire-over-antigay-health-ambassadors-20081126-6is1.html
Leo Shanahan
November 27, 2008
NICOLA Roxon has been embarrassed by the revelation that two men she appointed as health ambassadors put their names to a publication saying homosexuality is a mental disorder and gay people are more likely to take drugs and molest children.
The Health Minister, who is under pressure [...]
Get anti Gay activists off the mens health committee
Get anti Gay activists off the mens health committee
