SYDNEY: After receiving a torrent of criticism for not backing the rainbow crossing launched on Oxford Street yesterday morning, several City of Sydney councillors, including high-profile Liberal councillor Christine Forster, have defended their commitment to the local LGBTI community and have said the only reason they opposed the initiative was due to a lack of transparency by Lord Mayor Clover Moore.

SYDNEY: The City of Sydney is now accepting expressions of interest from applicants willing and able to run the performance space at Potts Point’s Reg Murphy Centre.

SYDNEY: It seems Sydneysiders and many more across the country have already fallen in love with the rainbow crossing installed across Oxford Street at Taylor Square overnight.

SYDNEY: From its beginnings as a protest against police brutality and corruption to the “creative, celebratory, glamorous” event it has become today, 35 years of Sydney Mardi Gras history is now open to the public following the launch of Australia’s first gay and lesbian museum on Oxford Street this week.

The NSW Government has agreed to maintain a liquor licence freeze along Oxford Street for a further 12 months.

With the party season well and truly heating up and Christmas and New Year’s Eve celebrations just around the corner, police and the City of Sydney are encouraging the public to plan ahead and stay safe during the holidays.

The future of Oxford Street is literally set to look a little bit brighter with two busy intersections to be painted the colours of the rainbow to recognise the positive and long-lasting influence the LGBTI community has had in the area.

Oxford Street business owners and residents from Paddington and Darlinghurst are breathing a sigh of relief after Roads Minister put a halt for the time being on plans by Roads and Maritime Services (RMS) to install a dividing fence in the middle of Oxford Street.

Local residents and businesses on Oxford Street are up in arms over a proposal by Roads and Maritime Services (RMS) to install a dividing fence along the precinct’s median strip.

An official function inside NSW Parliament will help mark this year’s Transgender Day of Remembrance which will be held for the fourteenth time next Tuesday to commemorate the lives of those lost or curtailed simply for being transgendered.

Plans for a Mardi Gras museum on the T2 site at Taylor Square remain up in the air after a City of Sydney council meeting this week resolved the space be put aside as a bike hub before a late amendment by newly elected Liberal councillor Christine Forster ensured other community purposes for the building, including a museum, will still be considered.

This year for the first time the City Of Sydney, in partnership with Organisation Intersex International Australia and the Lesbian and Gay Anti-Violence Project, has been celebrating the 14 Days of Intersex, which ends this Thursday on November 8.

Community gardens, art classes, neighbourhood barbecues and a book showcasing Newtown’s colourful shopkeepers are some of the projects to receive funding under the latest round of the City of Sydney’s Matching Grants scheme.

In what has been called a “once-in-a-lifetime” opportunity the City of Sydney is on the lookout for experienced curators to help develop innovative public art programs in the CBD as well as at Green Square.

The centre of Sydney will come to a pleasant halt in a little over a week with George Street set to be transformed into a giant picnicking area and dining room to celebrate the end of this year’s Art & About festival.