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A digital news site that provides gay men with tips on picking up at the gym, improving their Grindr rating and reviews for kinky sex toys was established with a federal government grant intended for health promotion. Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt has ordered an urgent review of the Emen8 website, a joint initiative of ACON (formerly the AIDS Council of NSW) and the Victorian AIDS Council, after The Australian brought to his ­attention its sexually explicit content. The site includes at least one reference to schoolboys engaging in sex acts with older men. A recent Emen8 article titled “Who’s the perfect daddy for you?” provides an analysis of the relationships that can occur between mature and younger men. It asks: “Does your fantasy include some condomless after-school action with your papa”, despite the site being restricted to adults. Although promoted by ACON as an innovative approach to “delivering evidence-based, high-quality, accessible” health information, some of

HOMOSEXUAL ADVOCATES IN THIS ARTICLE STATE  GAY MARRIAGE AND APOLOGIES ARE NOT ENOUGH Gay advocates have now moved beyond gay marriage to schools, the government and now want more changes. The Government's plan to posthumously pardon gay and bisexual men convicted of now-abolished sexual offences in England and Wales is a cosmetic measure which means very little to gay men today. The 1967 Sexual Offences Act finally decriminalised private homosexual acts between men aged over 21 in England and Wales, although the law wasn’t changed in Scotland until 1980, or in Northern Ireland until 1982. The age of consent was only equalised in 1998. Of the 65,000 men convicted under the laws, 15,000 are still alive . SNP MP Jon Nicholson's private member's bill, "talked out" in Parliament on Friday afternoon, would have meant an automatic pardon being granted to them too. That’s all well and good as a symbolic gesture. But we continue to live in a society that