SYDNEY: It seems Sydneysiders and many more across the country have already fallen in love with the rainbow crossing installed across Oxford Street at Taylor Square overnight.

Finance Minister Penny Wong has been selected as Labor’s Deputy Leader in the Federal Senate after a cabinet and frontbench reshuffle sparked by a number of retirements following Prime Minister Julia Gillard's decision to hold the next election in mid-September.

The Labor Government plans to remove convictions that were made against Victorian gay men in the 1960’s if elected.

SYDNEY: From its beginnings as a protest against police brutality and corruption to the “creative, celebratory, glamorous” event it has become today, 35 years of Sydney Mardi Gras history is now open to the public following the launch of Australia’s first gay and lesbian museum on Oxford Street this week.

As the Liberal Party amps up its opposition to Labor’s proposed consolidation of federal anti-discrimination laws, the union representing staff across the nation’s universities has said the laws do not go far enough to protect the LGBTI community from discrimination and, if passed in its current guise, will actually legislate for homophobia.

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.

South Australian Labor MP Ian Hunter has married his partner Leith Semmens in a ceremony in Spain.

An official function inside NSW Parliament will help mark this year’s Transgender Day of Remembrance which will be held for the fourteenth time next Tuesday to commemorate the lives of those lost or curtailed simply for being transgendered.

With the Greens deciding to form minority government with the Labor Party over the weekend following a deadlocked election, the newly returned ACT Government has today pledged its intent to follow through with an election promise to introduce territory-based marriage equality legislation in coming months.

Young inner-city Liberal Party up-and-comer Sean O’Connor has been preselected to take on Health Minister Tanya Plibersek’s safe Labor seat of Sydney at next year’s federal election.

LGBTI rights activist Carl Katter could very well become the latest member of his famous political family to follow that particular career path after it was revealed this week that he has decided to join his local Labor Party branch in Melbourne.

In what some may view as a surprise, the founding convener of lobby group Australian Marriage Equality (AME) has decided to throw his support behind Greens candidate Chris Harris for next weekend’s by-election for the state seat of Sydney.

SYDNEY: Articles and editorials by controversial conservative columnist Miranda Devine claiming the NSW Government’s pilot Proud Schools program would make it a “thought crime to regard heterosexuality as the norm in human relationships” has prompted criticism from LGBT health groups, equal rights advocates and the Greens.

High-profile gay rights advocate Alex Greenwich has announced he will contest the by-election for the state seat of Sydney as an Independent after today receiving the backing of outgoing popular long-serving MP Clover Moore.

A marriage equality bill introduced into Federal Parliament has been overwhelmingly defeated in the lower house today after almost half of all Labor MPs sided with leader Julia Gillard and the Coalition to oppose the reform.