While most men who identify as gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex lead happy, healthy and fulfilling lives (according to Beyond Blue), many encounter challenges that can trigger serious mental health issues.

International Men’s Day is one of the most important days on the calendar, where we get to celebrate half the population.

Australian men die six years younger than women. Here’s a few more sobering facts to serve at your International Men’s Day 2020 breakfast, lunch and dinner celebrations.

G’Day mate. Anyone hearing those words would assume the speaker was an Australian.

Father, brother, uncle, friend, teacher, boy scout leader, spouse, peer, coach, guru … role models come in many shapes and sizes, and through many doors.

With a focus on World Mental Health last month, the Australian Men’s Health Forum asked men to evaluate the 10 Habits of Mentally Healthy Men.

Nine out of 10 Australian men say they want to see increased Federal Government funding to improve men’s health, says a new study published on International Men’s Day, 19 November.

Former nurse Meg Ryan is Happy as Larry. Well, at least she will be when guests start arriving for the International Men’s Day event that she is organising at Lakeside Drive in St Kilda, Melbourne on 19 November.

Hanuman Das, also known as Greg Clarke, has spent many years trying to work out why men are less inclined to practice yoga or to explore a path of inner reflection. So, Hanuman, who runs a small yoga and meditation studio at Toronto on Lake Macquarie, south of Newcastle, wrote a book called Peaceman, Beyond Masculinity, Divinity to explain why they might want to take a closer look.

From Palmerston in the Northern Territory to Melbourne’s Lakeside Drive, Karratha in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, and NSW’s spectacular northern coastal town, Newcastle, the men’s health sector is gearing up for a bumper International Men’s Day on 19 November.