It’s been some time since this writer went out clubbing on Saturday night, but apparently the phenomenon hasn’t changed!

Members of the LGBTI community, progressive Catholics and others have called on the Vatican to consider serious reforms so that the Catholic Church may better reflect modern values following Pope Benedict XVI’s announcement this week that he would retire at the end of this month due to poor health.

Prominent US Christian activist and LGBTI ally Andrew Marin is set to hit Australia’s shores in time for Mardi Gras.

A group prevented from taking part in the Mardi Gras Parade have spoken out against Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras (SGLMG), questioning whether the current event carries the “integrity” and “purpose” of the original march.

The leader of the Catholic Church, Pope Benedict, was denounced as a homophobe over the weekend as a group of feminist activists held a topless protest for gay rights in the Vatican over the weekend.

Gay clergy will now be allowed to become bishops in the Church of England however they will have to meet certain conditions including repenting for past homosexual acts and promising to remain celibate.

SYDNEY: A heterosexual man who controversially spent a year in America living “undercover” as a gay person to experience homophobia and discrimination firsthand will be one of the special guests and keynote speakers at a conference in Sydney later this month that will explore questions of faith, sexuality and life as a spiritual journey.

Though many continue to debate the true meaning of Christmas, it seems Pope Benedict believes that it may involve large doses of homophobia and anti-gay bigotry with the worldwide leader of the Catholic Church claiming in a recent speech that LGBTI people are destroying the very “essence of the human creature”.

Hacker activist group Anonymous has once again stepped up its campaign against the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) after members of the controversial anti-gay family led church announced their intentions to picket the funerals of victims – the majority of whom were young children – of last week’s mass school shooting in the US.

LGBT activists have slammed a meeting between Queensland Premier Campbell Newman, Attorney-General Jarrod Bleijie and Brisbane Catholic Archbishop Mark Coleridge the night before the civil union legislation was watered down to registered relationship laws.

The attempt by Christians who oppose marriage equality to command public debate by asserting that marriage equality advocates are seeking to interfere with church freedom and belief are doing the church a disservice. One cannot help but also get the feeling it is disingenuous and self-serving.

In perhaps one of the bigger shocks of this year, evangelical US pastor Ted Haggard – who to this day continues to refute he is gay despite a three-year long drugs and porn fuelled affair with a male sex worker – has come out in support of same-sex marriage during a live online debate.

Senior Liberal MP Kevin Andrews has claimed the legalisation of same-sex marriage could lead to polygamy being recognised by the state while at the same time suggesting the breakdown of marriage is the biggest threat facing the Western world and the government must do more to promote the institution.

LGBTI Christian advocacy and support group Freedom2b is one step closer to becoming a truly national organisation with the upcoming launch of a new chapter in Perth early next month.

A little-known former Liberal Party member running as an independent in next month’s ACT elections has become a talking point for both major parties after calling for the re-criminalisation of homosexual sex and for the right to discriminate against gay people.