As a Senate committee prepares to hold public hearings in Sydney this week on Labor's draft national anti-discrimination laws, there’s growing outrage within the LGBTI community and elsewhere over the wide-ranging exemptions offered to religious bodies and other groups that will allow them to continue to legally discriminate against people on several grounds including sexual orientation and gender identity.

SYDNEY: A heterosexual man who controversially spent a year in America living “undercover” as a gay person to experience homophobia and discrimination firsthand will be one of the special guests and keynote speakers at a conference in Sydney later this month that will explore questions of faith, sexuality and life as a spiritual journey.

A new project undertaken by Metropolitan Community Church (MCC) Sydney will see it host the city’s first LGBT-friendly young adults group later this month.

Many people face difficulties in reconciling their sexuality with their faith. But, as Stu Fenton writes, spiritual fulfillment is in any gay man’s reach.