The Mars Bar team did their bit to raise money as part of the World’s Greatest Shave, says BeeJay the DeeJay.

The Aurora Group’s traditional Fat Tuesday fundraiser helped raise $6,500 earlier this month.

The Bobby Goldsmith Foundation (BGF) has thanked the LGBTI community as well as local businesses for the generosity shown to the longstanding HIV charity over this year’s Sydney Mardi Gras festival.

Described as a “musical safari through the jungle of love” a special concert this Sunday in Darlinghurst headlined by New York-based musical director Lance Horne and featuring stars of cabaret and song will help raise money for ACON’s Anti-Violence Project.

SYDNEY: Just over a year following the sad passing of Kiwi and Australian transgender icon, Carmen Rupe, a foundation created in her name to help improve the lives and visibility of transgender people and others facing disenfranchisement will be officially launched at a cocktail party at Darlinghurst later this month.

UK musical comedy duo Frisky and Mannish are set to headline annual GLBT fundraiser Fat Tuesday, along with a line-up of talented performers.

As it prepares to host another heady and extravagant Fat Tuesday fundraiser to mark the traditional date of Mardi Gras, the Aurora Group has announced that close to $35,000 will be donated to a number of LGBTI groups and others as part of its Small Grants program for 2012-13.

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.

Less than two weeks to go people and we’re off and racing at Morphettville for the annual Pink Diamond Race Day, says event coordinator Kylie Przibilla.

Much loved music queen Marcia Hines and singer Ricki-Lee Coulter will be among the faces helping raise money for people living with HIV during this year’s Red Ribbon Appeal.

The Bobby Goldsmith Foundation (BGF) has this week received $5,000 from Shine Lawyers after a man who took on his employer to stop the mistreatment of people in a care service won a competition run by the legal group urging people to stand their ground.

SYDNEY: Local bartender Wess McLachlan and the team from Oxford Street institution The Colombian Hotel will be all too happy to show their U.G.L.Y side for the remainder of October as they battle to be crowned the Leukaemia Foundation’s U.G.L.Y. Bartender of the Year.

The Bobby Goldsmith Foundation (BGF) welcomed Damien Hodgkinson as its new president at a function held at its inner-city headquarters last night featuring NSW Governor Marie Bashir, Health Minister Jillian Skinner and former High Court judge Michael Kirby.

The closing date for community grants that could give your organisation a financial boost has been extended.

Some of the LGBTI community’s favourite  performers have been announced as headliners for this year’s Light The Night concert raising funds for leukaemia research.