Anthony Venn-Brown OAM

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My feed is full of photos and videos of friends at #NoKings protests. Warms my heart. What is needed of course is a change in this insane, lawless, evil administration. It’s a beginning #WeLiveInHope #Resist

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“Better to live one day being true to yourself than an entire lifetime which is a lie.”
That one truth reshaped everything for me.
🌈 Pride Month isn’t just about parades—it’s about healing, truth, and hope.
👉 Read: tinyurl.com/2cejtqrg
#PrideMonth #ComingOutStory #LGBTQHope

Newcastle and Hunter region please share through your networks.

Dubbo and Central West please share through your networks.

"Every single courageous act of coming out chips away at the curse of homophobia. Most importantly, it’s destroyed within yourself, and that act creates the potential for its destruction in friends, family, and society." READ MORE tinyurl.com/2cejtqrg
#HappyPride #HappyPrideMonth

"PRIDE is a beacon of hope for those still living in shame. Every time we march, speak out, or simply live authentically, we shine a light into the dark places where shame still hides. Pride says, ‘You are not alone—and there’s nothing wrong with you.’” #ABBIorg READ: www.abbi.org.au/2025/06/prid...

Pride was not born out of a need to celebrate being gay. It evolved out of our struggle to break free of oppression and exist without being criminalised, imprisoned, pathologised, institutionalised, and persecuted. READ MORE: www.abbi.org.au/2025/06/prid...

Why we need visible and vocal allies. Silence and invisibly are killers.
Thank you for standing up and speaking out.
🏳️‍🌈#HappyPrideMonth 🏳️‍🌈 @nakedpastor.bsky.social

Pride Month is a beacon. My initial coming out was not with a sense of pride but reluctant acceptance. It would take several more years before I could fully break free from the deeply entrenched internalised shame and self-loathing that had ruled my life. READ MORE: www.abbi.org.au/.../pride-mo...

I know there’s a lot going on nationally & internationally ATM, but wouldn’t it be special if our PM @AlboMP wished the LGBTQIA community, friends, family and allies a HAPPY PRIDE MONTH. You know, like Obama used to do and Trump never will. Wishing and hoping. #ABBIorg

@brcremer.bsky.social ❤️

Canberra Baptist and Hamilton Baptist expelled over gays - ABBI Canberra Baptist and Hamilton Baptist churches expelled. Not because of right and wrong, but inclusion instead of exclusion.

Canberra and Hamilton Baptist Churches have been officially expelled from the NSW/ACT Baptist Association. Their “offence”? Daring to fully welcome and affirm LGBTQ people in their communities.
www.abbi.org.au/2025/05/canb...

Another Milestone in the 25-Year Journey - ABBI Anti-Discrination NSW launches program to ban conversion therapy. Here are the milestones that got us to this point.

Another Milestone in the 25-Year Journey - Anti-Discrimination NSW launches civil complaints scheme to end conversion “therapy” in the state www.abbi.org.au/2025/04/anti...

Open letter to straight Christian allies - ABBI Straight Christian allies for the LGBTIQ community are appreciated but it often comes at a cost. Read this..

Is there somone in your world you need to share this with. www.abbi.org.au/2017/02/stra...

NSW LGBTQA Conversion Practices Ban - launch and speech - ABBI Today Anti-discrimination NSW launched their program to back up the legislation banning conversion "therapy". Speech and links.

The outcomes of these practices are tragically predictable. That’s why the legislation and program being launched today are so vital."
READ MORE www.abbi.org.au/2025/04/conv...

Yes ladies. Haven’t you read 1 Timothy 2:9.

“I also want the women to dress modestly, with decency and propriety, adorning themselves, not with elaborate hairstyles or gold or pearls or expensive clothes” (NIV). It’s all your fault.

Some Christians and denominations still teach this.

I have a birthday fundraiser happening on Facebook. I’m over two-thirds there. If you’d consider popping in $10, $20 or something, towards the work of ABBI to help get me to my goal, that would be appreciated. Thanks. Check out the thermometer here www.abbi.org.au/2025/03/birt...

Special night with fellow warriors Alex Greenwich Ghassan Kassisieh at Pride in Law event talking LGBTQ wins, challenges and future

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Republican state lawmakers galvanize to attack same-sex marriage The recent wave of GOP-led bills comes as Trump becomes emboldened in orders against LGBTQ+ communities

Numerous Republican lawmakers across red states have followed suit in both rhetoric and the introduction of bills, sparking concerns across LGBTQ+ and civil rights organizations over their social and political effects. #resist
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KY House passes bill to protect conversion therapy, reverse Beshear’s executive order House Republicans passed a bill that will allow counselors to provide so-called conversion therapy, and overturn a 2024 executive order from Gov. Andy Beshear restricting the practice.

Progress can be wound back
www.yahoo.com/news/ky-hous...
But opponents, including mental health professionals, argued the bill would allow therapists and religious leaders to legally offer discredited, harmful counseling practices under the guise of parental freedom.

Anthony Venn-Brown - Ch7 Sunrise interview - ABBI Anthony Venn-Brown  was a leader in the Assemblies of God and a high profile preacher in the Pentecostal mega-churches of Australia such as Hillsong.

Even though this interview with Monique Wright was featured on Channel 7 SUNRISE in 2008, it is just as relevant for today. The majority of Australians were hearing about conversion "therapy" for the first time. www.abbi.org.au/2008/03/anth...

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