Labor's plan to scrap its anti-discrimination reforms and go back to the drawing board has brought stinging criticism.

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.

Advocates and activists from the LGBTI community have largely welcomed the recommendations of a Senate committee looking at the Federal Government’s proposed national anti-discrimination laws, with the committee suggesting religious exemptions be tightened for service providers, protections be strengthened for transgender people and that intersex people receive specific inclusion under any new legislation.

SYDNEY: In what has been hailed as proof of the positive benefits brought on by recent changes allowing same-sex parents to be included on children’s birth certificates, it can be revealed that hundreds of children with same-sex parents now have both their parents officially recognised.

SYDNEY: The ‘offensive’ gay signage controversy that engulfed Parramatta last week has revived concerns about the attitudes of those in Western Sydney towards LGBTIQ people. 

A public hearing in Sydney yesterday into the Federal Government’s proposed new anti-discrimination laws heard that it was of utmost importance to provide specific legal protections for intersex people as well as remove or significantly tighten exemptions allowed for religious organisations.

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.

The NSW Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby (GLRL) will celebrate its 25th anniversary in 2013 with a new committee of management after the organisation’s AGM last week saw the election of four new members to the committee.

Young LGBTI students have joined health groups, equal rights advocates as well as representatives from across the political divide to express their shock and dismay over an attack by conservative columnist Miranda Devine in News Limited-owned media outlets this week on a trial school anti-homophobia program.

SYDNEY: Articles and editorials by controversial conservative columnist Miranda Devine claiming the NSW Government’s pilot Proud Schools program would make it a “thought crime to regard heterosexuality as the norm in human relationships” has prompted criticism from LGBT health groups, equal rights advocates and the Greens.

The first day of a NSW parliamentary inquiry into the use of the provocation defence in murder trials has heard calls from the NSW Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby (GLRL) and others to remove the option of the so-called ‘gay panic’ or ‘homosexual advance defence’ which can potentially reduce a charge of murder to manslaughter.

The NSW Gay & Lesbian Rights Lobby (GLRL) have announced a series of workshops to identify areas in which same-sex attracted and gender diverse people experience discrimination and educate them on their rights and protections.

The NSW Gay and Rights Lobby (GLRL) has called on Queensland’s LNP Government to abandon its plans to prevent gay couples from accessing surrogacy arrangements, saying the changes go against promises made by Premier Campbell Newman only a few months ago.

Advocates for same-sex marriage have welcomed the report that was tabled in the House of Representatives today and believe it clears up the main concerns MPs may have with marriage equality.

LGBTI rights advocates have welcomed the news that NSW parliament is set to review the controversial "provocation" defence for murder.