South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill is set to be the first Australian Premier to speak at an Equal Love rally on Saturday.

It could soon be a race to the altar for the first state or territory in Australia to introduce marriage equality, with Tasmania’s Government over the weekend signalling it would bring in same-sex marriage laws during its current term of office, leading to calls by the ACT Government that it too may follow suit.

The Rotary Club of Sydney CBD has partnered with Australian Rotary Health and The Kirby Institute (UNSW) to grant a PHD Scholarship to Dr Damian Conway, from the Kirby Institute.

Participants are now being sought for a national study looking into the effects of HIV stigma on health in an effort to provide more effective preventative measures and treatments.

National director of UnitingCare Australia and prominent social justice advocate, Lin Hatfield Dodds, has been appointed as Chair of the Australian Social Inclusion Board.

The Catholic priest helping lead the campaign to end Queensland’s ‘gay panic’ laws met with Attorney-General Jarrod Bleijie yesterday to call on him to the close the loophole afforded to violent criminal offenders.

Touted as Australia’s first gay web drama, the team behind The Horizon are looking for funding for the series’ second season which they hope will lead to the show soon being aired on mainstream television.

ACT Deputy Chief Minister Andrew Barr is said to be “personally saddened” by suggestions from marriage equality groups and other LGBTI activists that the Government’s proposed amendments to its civil unions laws are a step back for same-sex couples.

Famed American author, essayist, screenwriter and political activist Gore Vidal has died aged 86 at his home in the Hollywood Hills.

The US Democratic Party seems like it will soon make marriage equality a part of its party platform as a new poll shows 65 per cent of Democrats supporters back same-sex marriage.

Having been the face of GetUp! for the past four years, Simon Sheikh has announced his resignation as national director of the online lobby group so as to avoid “burning out”.

The sexual harassment case against federal parliamentary Speaker Peter Slipper has taken another twist, with explosive allegations aired overnight on national television that his accuser James Ashby was sexually involved with two underage boys a decade ago.

Former tennis champ turned Liberal MP John Alexander has admitted to “trying to squirm” around the issue of marriage equality while appearing as a guest on ABC TV’s Q&A program.

New Zealand’s Prime Minister John Key will back a marriage equality bill when it is debated in the country’s Parliament in coming weeks, saying same-sex couples marrying would not impact upon the quality of his own marriage.

The ex-partner of a man still in prison for his part in a deadly bashing on the grounds of a Catholic church in Maryborough has joined the growing campaign to have Queensland’s ‘gay panic’ law abolished.