Federal Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has lauded his sister Christine Forster’s decision to come out as gay, saying she is “one of the bravest” people he knows whose actions “deepened” his own life.

The Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) are claiming Labor's defeat in the Northern Territory election is due to the party's support for marriage equality.

The annual Wear it Purple day is fast approaching and organisers are again calling on people to show their support for sexual and gender diversity by wearing purple.

A bill to legalise same-sex marriage in New Zealand would get through its first stage according to a poll run by that country's Herald newspaper.

A new Australian movie is set to shine a powerful and “uncomfortable” spotlight on homophobia, youth and masculinity.

A report released in Canberra yesterday warns that Hepatitis C has overtaken HIV as the virus contributing to most deaths in Australia.

The South Australian Minister for Social Inclusion, Ian Hunter (pictured), has announced a new LGBTIQ strategy will be developed for the state.

NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell will not support plans for the state to become the latest to follow the lead of Tasmania and pursue state-based marriage equality laws.

A newly published West Australian study has found lesbian and bisexual women are at greater risk of drinking at dangerous levels and engaging in illicit drug use, while many seem to also be complacent about the need for regular cervical cancer testing.

The ACT Government has confirmed it will work with Tasmania on drafting state and territory-based marriage equality laws after the Territory Parliament passed a bill last night effectively restoring civil unions law first introduced in the ACT in 2006.

The South Australian Greens have renewed calls for the so-called ‘gay panic’ defence to be removed from state law.

Marriage equality advocates have called on federal politicians to work together to achieve same-sex marriage reforms after a fourth bill calling for marriage equality was introduced into Parliament today.

The recipients of the Parkestone Association 2012 grants for community projects are the Adelaide Gay & Lesbian Qwire and the Feast Festival Queer Memory Map Project.

The debate on Senator Sarah Hanson-Young’s marriage equality bill will get underway in the Federal Senate tomorrow.

Pop star Madonna is being sued by conservative Russian activists after she called on the crowd to support LGBT rights during the St Petersburg concert on August 9.