In what is described as a first for the aged care industry, UnitingCare Ageing has taken the step of appointing an LGBTI project officer to liaise with community and health organisations to help gain a better understanding of the challenges facing older LGBTI people.

A new campaign has been launched to coincide with International Day Against Homophobia And Transphobia (IDAHO) calling on members of the general community to become allies in fighting homophobia and discrimination.

Researchers at the University of Western Sydney are currently seeking gay or lesbian teachers to participate in a new national study that aims to provide a picture of the current climate in public and private schools across Australia.

Pressure has heaped on Prime Minister Julia Gillard following US President Barack Obama’s decision to air his personal support for same-sex marriage during a television news interview overnight.

The third annual Gay & Lesbian Outrageous, Ridiculous and Ignorant Comment Awards (or GLORIAs) due to take place next week at NSW Parliament House has been postponed until sometime later this year.

WORLD: The Republican Party now has its first openly gay state lawmaker with first term Missouri representative Zach Wyatt publicly coming out.

Retired High Court judge Michael Kirby and former NSW Premier Kristina Keneally have together fronted a Senate committee hearing into marriage equality in Sydney today, with the former judge telling the inquiry that despite his successful career in the judiciary he was and remains “a second-class citizen”. 

Over a quarter of a million people have signed a petition calling upon the Boy Scouts of America to reinstate an Ohio woman as leader of her seven-year-old son’s local pack after officials earlier this month decided to kick her out for being lesbian.

Tax time in the United States has reaffirmed the difference between same-sex and opposite-sex couples with same-sex couples unable to file joint tax returns and left to pay more in taxes.

The Australian Press Council has upheld a complaint in relation to a controversial anti-gay article written by former tennis champion, Margaret Court, published in Melbourne’s Herald-Sun newspaper during this year’s Australian Open tennis tournament.

Same-sex couples in the United States have lodged a legal suit in the state of Nevada to challenge the current ban on same-sex marriage.

Gay rights activists have become the first to be arrested in St Petersburg under laws introduced in March which bans ‘the propaganda of homosexuality and paedophilia among minors’.

The Sydney Gay & Lesbian Choir (SGLC) has launched the website for its unique OutPostChoir project, with people in Australia and elsewhere now able to add their voices to what is hoped will become the world’s largest virtual choir.

A follow-up study to a major national survey first conducted six years ago on the health and wellbeing of GLBT Australians has found that almost 80 per cent of GLBT people have experienced at least one episode of intense anxiety in the past 12 months and that many of them continue to face higher levels of abuse and discrimination.

Nepal’s first openly gay MP, Sunil Bapu Pant, has called on Facebook to allow users to select “third gender” or “other” when listing their sex on the hugely popular social networking site, with the maverick politician saying that people who do not identify as male or female “continue to be sidelined by Facebook’s options”.