Advocates and activists from the LGBTI community have largely welcomed the recommendations of a Senate committee looking at the Federal Government’s proposed national anti-discrimination laws, with the committee suggesting religious exemptions be tightened for service providers, protections be strengthened for transgender people and that intersex people receive specific inclusion under any new legislation.

Marriage equality advocates have called for LGBTI couples across Australia to send in submissions to the NSW parliament’s inquiry into proposed state same-sex marriage legislation as the current draft bill will preclude such couples from interstate marrying in the state.

SYDNEY: In what has been hailed as proof of the positive benefits brought on by recent changes allowing same-sex parents to be included on children’s birth certificates, it can be revealed that hundreds of children with same-sex parents now have both their parents officially recognised.

In what has been called a Valentine’s Day gift to the state’s same-sex couples, a NSW committee has released blueprint legislation for state-based same-sex marriage.

With France’s lower house of Parliament, the Assemblée Nationale (National Assembly), passing a bill overnight allowing for same-sex couples to marry and adopt children, some local advocates have suggested Australia is fast falling behind on its obligations of equality for all citizens when compared to other western nations.

SYDNEY: A Sydney waiter charged with the rape of four young men dating back to 2009 has previous convictions “for offences of a sexual nature” it can be revealed.

SYDNEY: The NSW Government has offered a $100,000 reward for information that may help solve the mysterious death of visiting American maths genius, Scott Johnson, at the base of cliffs near Manly Beach almost 25 years ago which his family believe was the result of a gay-hate attack.

Recently retired Australian basketball and WNBA star Tully Bevilaqua has put her voice behind the campaign for equal marriage rights, saying she is planning to wed her female partner in the US later this year.

Well-known restaurant reservation website Dimmi is the latest company to announce its public support for marriage equality in Australia, saying it fully supports equality for same-sex couples.

A dark part of Sydney’s recent past will be revisited with an episode of ABC TV’s Australian Story to take another look at the case of a visiting American maths genius who it is now believed was the victim of a gay-hate murder at the hands of a marauding gang of homophobes who terrorised gay beats on the city’s beachside cliffs. 

A public hearing in Sydney yesterday into the Federal Government’s proposed new anti-discrimination laws heard that it was of utmost importance to provide specific legal protections for intersex people as well as remove or significantly tighten exemptions allowed for religious organisations.

As the Liberal Party amps up its opposition to Labor’s proposed consolidation of federal anti-discrimination laws, the union representing staff across the nation’s universities has said the laws do not go far enough to protect the LGBTI community from discrimination and, if passed in its current guise, will actually legislate for homophobia.

VICTORIA: Former Hobsons Bay Mayor Tony Briffa has had a court intervention order issued against a person who has been "harassing and stalking" the local politican for the last 18 months.

The NSW Government’s plan to trial three “sobering-up centres” in Sydney and Wollongong has been attacked as a “stunt” that could potentially put people at risk of further harm while doing nothing to address the root issues of binge drinking and alcohol-related violence.

In what is thought to be an Australian-first, two candidates from the same political party have performed an explicit sex scene together after Sex Party members Zahra Stardust and Angela White filmed a queer adult movie over the summer to highlight the inconsistency of pornography laws.