This year’s Sydney Mardi Gras Parade and after-party has been hailed a success with over 9,000 participants on almost 110 floats creating a line of glitz and glamour up Oxford Street and Flinders Street, with messages reminding the community about equality and the need for acceptance and not discrimination.

The controversial political career of Bernard Gaynor seems to have been short-lived with the one-time potential Katter’s Australia Party (KAP) Senate candidate for Queensland today announcing his resignation from the party.

Bob Katter has welcomed a new Australian Party Senate candidate who is in favour of gay marriage and who says he loves his gay friends as well as his redneck friends.

The fall-out over homophobic remarks made by prospective candidates for the Katter Australia Party continues, with party leader Bob Katter refusing to condemn the remarks.

Outrage is spreading as Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) has found itself in yet another anti-gay controversy after not one but two candidates of the newfound fledgling party likened gay and lesbians to paedophiles who are not fit to teach children at kindergarten.

LGBTI rights activist Carl Katter could very well become the latest member of his famous political family to follow that particular career path after it was revealed this week that he has decided to join his local Labor Party branch in Melbourne.

With sadly no shortage of material to choose from over the past few days and weeks, let alone the last 12 months, organisers of this year’s GLORIA Awards have called upon the public to nominate the most outrageous, ridiculous or ignorant comments that they have read, seen or heard about GLBTI people and their families ahead of a ceremony next month.

Notorious for his anti-gay views, federal Independent MP Bob Katter now regrets ever allowing followers in his Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) to air homophobic advertisements prior to this year’s Queensland state election.

The third annual Gay & Lesbian Outrageous, Ridiculous and Ignorant Comment Awards (or GLORIAs) due to take place next week at NSW Parliament House has been postponed until sometime later this year.

Advocates for equal marriage rights believe Tony Abbott is running out of arguments against same-sex marriage since his sister Christine Forster publicly came out.

The anti-gay marriage advertisement by Bob Katter’s Australian Party elicited anger from many, including the independent MP’s half-brother. Here, Carl Katter recounts the week he was forced to fight hate and defend the LGBTI community. 

Bob Katter’s Australian Party’s anti-gay marriage assault galvanised supporters of equality but also unearthed allies to their cause. Serkan Ozturk casts an eye on the week’s heated events sparked by a 30-second political advertisement.

Anti-gay marriage campaigners are banking on parental hysteria to get their message across by targeting sex education. Fortunately, young people today are not that gullible, writes Nicky Bryson.

The Queensland Council of Unions (QCU) has withdrawn it support from Bob Katter’s Australia Party (KAP) after a homophobic TV ad caused “considerable distress” among members.

An ad starring gay rights advocate Carl Katter has been launched in Brisbane today urging Queenslanders to not “vote for hate” at the upcoming state election following the recent airing of a controversial anti-gay ad by his half-brother Bob Katter’s newly formed Katter’s Australian Party (KAP).