Leading health groups and national HIV bodies have come to the defence of Queensland’s peak LGBT health and wellbeing organisation, Healthy Communities, after Queensland Health Minister Lawrence Springborg announced plans to have its funding gutted.

Notorious for his anti-gay views, federal Independent MP Bob Katter now regrets ever allowing followers in his Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) to air homophobic advertisements prior to this year’s Queensland state election.

EXCLUSIVE: In the first sign that Queensland’s recently enacted civil union laws are under threat from the new LNP Government, notaries wishing to perform same-sex civil unions have been left in the dark as to what is happening with their applications to the Queensland department of Births, Deaths and Marriages.

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

The Speaker of Federal Parliament, Peter Slipper, has stood down in the wake of a growing scandal involving allegations of fraud and sexual harassment against a young male staffer.

The newly installed Queensland Government has been warned it will be held fully responsible for potential negative mental health outcomes should it repeal the state’s same-sex civil unions laws, after Attorney-General Jarrod Bleijie confirmed that the LNP is currently receiving legal advice on the matter.

It's going to be tough times ahead for marriage equality advocates and GLBTI folk generally in Queensland following Labor's trouncing at the state election.

New Queensland premier, Campbell Newman, has been urged to govern for and represent all Queenslanders following the Liberal National Party’s (LNP) mammoth election win over the weekend, with fears still remaining within the local LGBTI community that the LNP will repeal the state’s newly enacted civil unions laws.

At least one thousand people are expected at Brisbane’s King George Square tomorrow afternoon for a counter-demonstration against controversial anti-gay Christian preacher Peter Madden.

Bob Katter’s Australian Party’s anti-gay marriage assault galvanised supporters of equality but also unearthed allies to their cause. Serkan Ozturk casts an eye on the week’s heated events sparked by a 30-second political advertisement.

Controversial anti-gay Christian preacher Peter Madden had his ‘Queensland Election Prayer Rally Tour’ over the weekend forced into an unexpected pit-stop at Lismore, as members of the gay and lesbian community vandalised Madden’s rally truck with paint and glitter while others attempted a blockade before the local mayor urged Madden to leave the Northern Rivers town for good.

An ad starring gay rights advocate Carl Katter has been launched in Brisbane today urging Queenslanders to not “vote for hate” at the upcoming state election following the recent airing of a controversial anti-gay ad by his half-brother Bob Katter’s newly formed Katter’s Australian Party (KAP).

BRISBANE: The Sportsman Hotel, long regarded as one of Brisbane’s most iconic GLBT pubs, will continue to be a gay venue despite recently being put up for sale.

The controversy surrounding the anti-gay television ad aired by Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) over the weekend in the lead-up to the Queensland election has widened, with a French photographer angry that his images were used and KAP funder, billionaire James Packer saying he “certainly” doesn’t support the message conveyed in the ad.

Widespread community outrage and a backlash on social media networks has greeted the airing of a “homophobic” anti-gay marriage ad by Katter’s Australian Party in Queensland overnight attacking LNP Leader Campbell Newman, with some including Bob Katter’s half-brother calling it “desperate” and “disrespectful” while others have suggested it will only appeal to “rednecks”.