Sydney’s Opera House and Harbour Bridge Pylons and Canberra’s New and Old Parliament Houses and Black Mountain Tower will turn red tonight and tomorrow night in honour of World AIDS Day.

SYDNEY: The eminent Sydney queer writer, poet and journalist, Ian MacNeill, has died after a battle with liver cancer.

The tomb of Oscar Wilde will be unveiled today after extensive renovation.

MELBOURNE: The Victorian Government has announced funding for suicide prevention for seven GLBTI organisations.

About 50 people gathered in the Lounge at the Feast Hub for the premiere of five digital stories created by HIV positive storytellers as part of the Positive Stories project.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard yesterday used part of her day to personally appeal to a number of undecided Labor MPs and delegates from the party’s Right faction ahead of the expected showdown over the issue of marriage equality at this Friday’s ALP National Conference.

SYDNEY: The Gay and Lesbian Counselling Service of NSW (GLCS) will merge with LGBTI youth agency Twenty10 after a vote was taken by members of the long-standing counselling service at a meeting last weekend. 

RUSSIA: St. Petersburg lawmakers will on Wednesday debate a globally criticised bill that proposes fines for “public activities promoting sodomy, lesbianism, bisexuality and transgender identity” as well as paedophilia.

A GetUp video that suggests “it’s time” for marriage equality has notched over one millions views after going viral following its launch late last Friday afternoon. 

HOBART: Tasmanian gay activists have called on Tasmanian delegates at this week’s ALP National Conference to back a new party platform in support of marriage equality, after Tasmanian Labor Senator, Helen Polley, yesterday released a statement claiming that “re-defining marriage is a step that would completely change its meaning”.

SYDNEY: Three important events for the queer, and sex and gender diverse (SGD) communities, will be held in Sydney this weekend, with each event to feature plenty of discussion on marriage rights at a time when PM Julia Gillard and her Labor colleagues will be debating similar issues at their National Conference in Darling Harbour. 

Funds raised by Movember 'protest' campaign Fauxvember have been rejected by one of its nominated charities.

HIV Futures 7 is the seventh national survey of Australian People Living with HIV (PLHIV) conducted by the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society at La Trobe University. 

SYDNEY: A GLBTIQ youth support group as well as a high-profile gay Christian advocate have denounced an anti-marriage equality video released this week by a senior member of Fred Nile’s Christian Democratic Party (CDP) for trading in homophobia, misinformation and “conspiracy theories”.

Marriage equality advocates are angry the Australian Government is blocking the legal overseas same-sex marriage of the sister of former Tasmanian Premier, David Bartlett.