On the night in 2007 that Labor won the federal election, a Kevin Rudd meme – a “lolKevin” – went into interweb circulation. It was a photo of an authoritative-looking Rudd with a very simple imploration below: “Don’t fuck it up.”

Settling for a compromise does not equal make, as exemplified by the latest push for civil unions, writes Nicky Bryson.

A visit to Oscar Wilde’s tomb has Alasdair Duncan contemplating life, epitaphs and statues with bulging crotches.

Being in singledom can yield some of the best years of your life – it all depends on how you deal with it.

This week we’ve got heaps of Pride March images for you, although there are more online. So if you don’t make it into print, don’t despair - you might be featuring online.

Lobbying carries its risks. In a meeting about marriage equality in parliament last week I was challenged to an arm wrestle by a well-known Coalition Senator who says he has defeated Joe Hockey and Tony Abbott despite being almost seventy.

A body-conscious Phil Scott learns to let it go, just in time for the Mardi Gras festivities.

While a decision prohibiting a local polyamory group to march in Mardi Gras Parade was eventually overturned, that their exclusion was even considered raises questions about how we view the LGBTIQ community, writes Tommy Berne.

Dear blaze readers, as I pen my 226th column and enter my 10th year I look back over the changes in this important community organ.

Well here we are on the brink of glorious insanity as we count down to the Adelaide Festival of Arts and its concomitant Fringe.

A new study report from the University of NSW says gay men who take drugs are three times more likely to have major depression than other gay men.

Last week saw a disheartening but perhaps necessary reality check on marriage equality.

Cynthia Nixon’s recent comments about her sexuality generated a groundswell of controversy about two dirty words: choice and bisexuality. But, as Garrett Bithell argues, we need to loosen the framework of the debate.

For those of us lucky enough to live in the major cities, access to a myriad of nightclubbing and social opportunities is one of the things we often take for granted, along with a fabulous variety of international food, galleries and other such cultural experiences.

After Shane Warne went for a drive recently and got involved in a road rage incident with a cyclist, he called for registration of all bikes so maverick cyclists could be traced and punished.