The Gold Coast Gay Day will return for another year of fun in the warm Queensland winter sun this weekend.

ADELAIDE: Equal Love is marking the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO) with rallies around the country to again call for the legalisation of same-sex marriage.

Gay men on Sydney’s northern beaches will once again have a presence in the local area with the revival of the Manly Gay Men’s Group to be held next Wednesday night at the Sugar Lounge.

A multi-million dollar initiative by two of Australia’s leading mental health awareness agencies will specifically target the GLBTI community.

WORLD: The Republican Party now has its first openly gay state lawmaker with first term Missouri representative Zach Wyatt publicly coming out.

The Greens are calling on Tony Abbott to follow the lead of Beyond Blue chair Jeff Kennett who has shifted his position to now support same-sex marriage.

A major Malaysian newspaper which falsely claimed South Australian Senator Nick Xenophon was anti-Islam has apologised for the report.

In the lead up to the US Democrats national convention 11 state chairs have declared their support for including marriage equality in the national party’s platform.

South Australian Minister for Social Inclusion, Ian Hunter, will be the key speaker at the Dr Duncan Memorial to commemorate the 40th anniversary since his death.

The South Australian Upper House has passed a bill which is designed to allowed lesbian couples and single women access to IVF treatment.

A submission to the Senate Inquiry on same-sex marriage signed by 150 doctors that claims “the future health of the nation” would be threatened if same-sex marriage is introduced has been denounced by the Australian Medical Association.

A new national multi-media campaign launched today in Sydney by the National Association of People living with HIV/AIDS (NAPWA) urges people living with HIV to get up to date about the latest advances in HIV treatment, with new more effective and better tolerated treatments also capable of significantly reducing the risk of transmission to others.

Retired High Court judge Michael Kirby and former NSW Premier Kristina Keneally have together fronted a Senate committee hearing into marriage equality in Sydney today, with the former judge telling the inquiry that despite his successful career in the judiciary he was and remains “a second-class citizen”. 

3AW talkback radio host Neil Mitchell united with gay community station Joy 94.9 for a joint live broadcast addressing youth suicide and mental health today.

The House of Representatives in Vermont has voted overwhelmingly in favour of asking the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to lift the lifelong ban on blood donation by gay and bisexual men.