Queensland Health investigated whether QAHC – the state’s peak body for HIV campaigns for gay men – was using government funds for buying real estate and funding arts events, how many staff it had on salary and whether ‘thongs’ branded for community events were “[on] the feet or on the body”.

The Community Brave Foundation will be releasing a new calendar for 2013 featuring some of the LGBTI community’s favourite sporting clubs including The Sydney Convicts, The Stingers, The Flying Bats and Sydney Rangers to help inspire young LGBTIQ youth to join one of the many community sports teams around.

The manual used by US psychiatrists to diagnose mental illness no longer lists transgender as a ‘disorder’.

Artists and others are being invited to take part in a new exhibition that will take a look at what it means to be Australian, today and in the future.

They have received support from one half of Kath & Kim as well as British chat show host Graham Norton in recent weeks but now the filmmakers behind the musical “comedy bro-mance” Super Awesome are calling on the Australian public to help film the movie’s climax in London.

A Muslim prayer centre situated in a small room in the house of a Buddhist monk in Paris has quickly taken the title of Europe’s first LGBT-friendly mosque while also stoking criticism from religious leaders that it is “an abuse of the definition of a mosque” and “against the spirit of Islam”.

The West Australian journalist Steve Pennells has taken out the prestigious Gold Walkley award for excellence in journalism following a ceremony in Canberra late last week.

The annual Pride in Diversity LGBTI workplace conference took place at the headquarters of banking giant NAB early last week, with over 115 people attending the two-day event which also heard from representatives from the Top Ten employers for LGBTI people according to the 2012 Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI).

Groups and organisations representing the country’s diverse sex and gender (DSG) community have called for the Federal Government to urgently act on the recommendations of a groundbreaking report released by the National LGBTI Health Alliance last week.

The Australian Federation of AIDS Organisation (AFAO) has this week called for a three pronged approach of testing, treatment and targets to help achieve the goals of the UN Political Declaration on HIV, as peak AIDS organisations joined the Department of Health in rejecting criticisms that Australia’s HIV reporting regime was severely lacking. 

Western Australia has become the latest state or territory on track for equal marriage laws after Greens MLC Lynn MacLaren introduced a bill in the state’s Upper House of Parliament on Thursday morning.

A Newcastle taxi driver has been ordered to apologise and pay $11,000 in compensation to Sydney man Gary Burns after a series of blog posts over a number of years that were found to be vilifying the gay community.

A Sydney jeweller twice cleared of killing his male partner has continued to plead his innocence this week after he was found guilty of his manslaughter.

As part of a continuing campaign to better understand the needs of older LGBTI Australians, UnitingCare Ageing has developed a survey that it hopes will provide a greater insight into the community’s needs for aged care services.

The Federal Government and the Australian Defence Force (ADF) have both made official apologies this week to military personnel, including LGBTI people, who may have experienced sexual, physical or mental abuse after a major report released earlier this year detailed shocking claims dating as far back as seven decades ago.