A queer film with a six-minute gay sex scene that was set to screen at this year’s Melbourne Queer Film Festival has been denied exemption from classification by the Australian Film Classification Board.

SYDNEY MARDI GRAS: They have been marching in the Mardi Gras Parade since 2008 but this year, for the first time, openly gay personnel from the Australian Defence Force will take part in the procession in full uniform – a move that will only have positive outcomes. It’s gay and lesbian service members speak with Reg Domingo. Photographed for SX by John McRae.

SYDNEY: Wrestlers may have suffered a blow on the global stage but that isn’t stopping gay wrestling club The Sydney Silverbacks from forging ahead.

Bears are set to party this Fringe with Bear Men of Adelaide presenting their inaugural Fringe Bears weekend, March 15-17, during Adelaide's famous Fringe Festival.

A bonanza of Adelaide’s brightest drag stars are donating their talent for first Feast fundraiser of the year - Dragorama at the gorgeous Paradiso Speigeltent. Margie Fischer tells us all.

From the creators of Soap comes Leo, a spellbinding mix of stage design, video projection and live acrobatic performance. Peter Burdon spoke to the creator and performer, Tobias Wegner.

David Wright & David Cauchi are organisers of the LGBTI social group Adelaide Bike Tourers. Here they tell us about how the group works and the joys of hitting the road.

SYDNEY: Greater goals, higher hems and a larger turnout – this year’s Little Black Dress Run is shaping up to be the biggest yet. Bernie Burke reports.

Megan Mullally is responsible for crafting one of the most popular and seminal sitcom characters of all time, the irrepressible and fabulously absurd Karen Walker. Ahead of her headline Mardi Gras Festival appearance, she speaks with Garrett Bithell. 

A few weeks ago, AFL footballer Brock McLean contacted Sunday Age writer Jill Stark and said he wanted do something about homophobia in the AFL. The Age ran the story, it went viral and even saw overseas media outlets pick it up, because still, in 2013, it is big news that a straight sportsman would dare to stand-up to ‘the boys club’. Rachel Cook spoke to Brock McLean about why he’s determined to stamp out homophobia in sport.

SYDNEY: This year’s Bear Essentials will feature some of the best events from the festival’s 17-year history. Lachlan Bennett reports.

In 2010, after 22 years performing as Sydney drag queen Mitzi Macintosh, Graeme Browing packed up his frocks to relocate to the UK. As part of Mardi Gras, he's bringing Mitzi back to Sydney for a series of events. On the eve of his arrival, the man behind the woman caught up with SX to talk performance, London’s drag culture scene and its gay scene.

A new online interview and photography project is celebrating older queer women by sharing their stories and experiences. 

They are the pioneers who blazed the trail for Australia’s gay and lesbian community, whose courage and bravery laid the foundation for LGBTI equality, visibility and acceptance. As Sydney Mardi Gras marks a new milestone, four ‘78ers – the original marchers who staged the first Mardi Gras 35 years ago – share their memories of that fateful night, and reflect on Mardi Gras’ past, present and future. Photographed for SX by Robert Knapman.

The re-opening of the case into the death of Scott Johnson has unearthed more disturbing revelations of homophobic violence towards gay men in the late 1980s and early 1990s, writes Garry Wotherspoon.