The marriage Equality activist and founder of the Victorian branch of Australian Marriage Equality (AME) has resigned as convenor of the branch, intending to continue that campaign and other issues from with the Australian Labor Party (ALP).

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.

MELBOURNE: Victorian Australian Marriage Equality convenor and recent Fitzroy ALP branch recruit Carl Katter claims the Baillieu Government’s amending of the Victorian Equal Opportunity Act allowing faith based organisations to discriminate on the grounds of sexuality and gender difference and its recently announced intention to remove historic gay sex convictions points to an inconsistency of support for LGBT issues.

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.

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. 

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).

Widespread community outrage and a backlash on social media networks has greeted the airing of a “homophobic” anti-gay marriage ad by Katter’s Australian Party in Queensland overnight attacking LNP Leader Campbell Newman, with some including Bob Katter’s half-brother calling it “desperate” and “disrespectful” while others have suggested it will only appeal to “rednecks”.

The Sydney Mardi Gras Festival has come to a close for yet another year following a weekend of parties and a colourful parade on Saturday night which, despite heavy rain and wild winds at times, drew an estimated 300,000 spectators, including singer Kylie Minogue, actor Magda Szubanski and NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell. 

With the Australian Open grand slam coming to a close for another year, fallout over the widely reported anti-gay views of one of the sport’s former champions, Margaret Court, has continued with the multiple grand slam winner turned evangelical pastor creating further furore yesterday after claiming that being gay for many people was the result of child abuse.

Tennis legend Margaret Court has been slammed by a wide cross-section of the LGBTI community as well as a number of former and current representatives of Christian churches following her latest remarks about homosexuality and gay and lesbian people.

Displays of rainbow flags protesting anti gay marriage comments by former tennis star turned Pentecostal minister Margaret Court were discreet during the opening matches of the Australian Open in Melbourne last week.

The openly gay, married sister of high-profile, conservative media personality Andrew Bolt has written a stirring and thought provoking rebuke to the vocal opponent of marriage equality, a week after not being allowed to post a comment on an article by Bolt on his highly read blog which claimed that gay marriage would lead to Islamic Sharia law and polygamy.

A host of Australian TV and media personalities have come together for a new video calling for marriage equality in Australia.

Melbourne's Park Hyatt Hotel was the focus of national media attention today thanks to a visit from the Prime Minister.