Marriage equality advocates have welcomed the launch of an Australian cover version of the world-wide hit 'Same Love', by Ben Macklemore and Ryan Lewis.

Marriage equality advocates have welcomed Hillary Clinton’s endorsement of same-sex marriage, saying Australia’s leaders are increasingly “out of step”.

Australian marriage equality advocates have welcomed a US conservative senator's "change of heart" on the issue of same-sex marriage.

AME National Director, Rodney Croome, will be in Adelaide next week for a community meeting to gauge interest in setting up a South Australian branch of Australian Marriage Equality.

Marriage equality advocates say the pressure on federal Coalition Leader Tony Abbott to allow for a conscience vote on equal marriage laws will only grow after Western Australia’s Liberal Premier, Colin Barnett, confirmed this week that he will allow for a free vote on the issue when similar legislation comes before state parliament later this year.

Marriage equality advocates have called for LGBTI couples across Australia to send in submissions to the NSW parliament’s inquiry into proposed state same-sex marriage legislation as the current draft bill will preclude such couples from interstate marrying in the state.

Sydney MP Alex Greenwich will later today introduce a motion in NSW Parliament that “condemns” the Australian Christian Lobby’s attacks on the gay community which he hopes will lead to more politicians distancing themselves from the right-wing, anti-gay, fundamentalist Christian group.

With France’s lower house of Parliament, the Assemblée Nationale (National Assembly), passing a bill overnight allowing for same-sex couples to marry and adopt children, some local advocates have suggested Australia is fast falling behind on its obligations of equality for all citizens when compared to other western nations.

The LNP Government’s watering down of Queensland’s civil union laws has failed to dent same-sex couples and others from having their relationships formally and legally recognised.

Same-sex marriage is likely to be legal in Uruguay early next year after lawmakers in the South American country overwhelmingly supported the passage of a marriage equality bill in its first phase this week.

The Melbourne Pastor who was kicked out of a Baptist church for supporting marriage equality has opened a new counselling practice and has thanked the LGBTI community.

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 key promoter of mental health for Queensland’s LGBTI community has decided to move on after 25 years with Brisbane-based psychologist Paul Martin announcing he will cease his public advocacy work to instead focus on a new career challenge.

NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell has moved for a parliamentary inquiry into state-based marriage equality laws after a cross-party groups of MPs earlier this week gave notice of their intentions to introduce a same-sex marriage bill early next year.

Politicians from all three major parties will be present at two community forums in Melbourne and Sydney this month as marriage equality advocates plan their next move in the wake of votes against reform in the federal and Tasmanian parliaments as well as victories for marriage equality in the recent US election.