Music legend and LGBTI rights activist Cyndi Lauper is celebrating 30 years of recording history with her tour, She's So Unusual.

Victoria’s Safe Schools Coalition has welcomed the 100th and 101st new member schools joining the coalition this month.

Australian singer and actress Melissa Tkautz has joined with Sydney-based anti-bullying organisation The Community Brave Foundation to launch a new project which connects young people’s talents and skills with community organisations for projects and campaigns.

BRISBANE: Some teachers are contributing to homophobic bullying in Queensland schools, says advocacy group PFLAG.

SYDNEY: Parramatta Mayor John Chedid has sent Twenty10 a letter of apology following the widespread community outrage and ensuing social media backlash that met the Council after the queer youth support agency was ordered to remove signage during a family fun day last week.

SYDNEY: Parramatta’s Lord Mayor, John Chedid, has been accused of homophobia and become the target of a social media campaign following reports he was involved in pulling down banners promoting queer youth support agency Twenty10 at a community festival late last week, supposedly on the grounds that they were “offensive”.

The Pinnacle Foundation will hold its first ever Scholar Induction Program next month for over 20 young LGBTIQ people as it prepares to help more students who have suffered hardship or discrimination with mentoring and financial assistance.

The acting South Australian Minister for Youth, Grace Portolesi has announced a new round of grants for youth projects which have highlighted LGBT youth services as one of their priorities.

The first book in almost a decade to investigate queer youth suicide is being launched in Adelaide this month.

The University of Western Sydney is launching a study into how the ‘rules’ of masculinity and femininity affect the school lives of same-sex attracted and gender-questioning youth.

How one Adelaide program is improving the wellbeing of young same-sex attracted people by providing a space to express themselves, socialise and meet others just like them. Alex Dunkin reports.

Model and media personality Nick Bracks is the latest high-profile Australian to become an ambassador for national youth mental health foundation headspace.

Management of The Second Story have responded to criticisms that they are no longer offering services for same-sex attracted youth by stating that the InsideOut (ISO) and Evolve programs are still operating.

A Victorian regional youth service has called for more funding to better provide for GLBTIQ youth.

Managers for the Second Story and Child and Youth Health were unable to provide data on the same-sex attracted youth program’s InsideOut and EVOLVE projects during a state government briefing.