Australia’s leading gay and lesbian newspaper, the Star Observer is embarking on a new direction, ceasing its weekly edition and becoming a new-look monthly publication from April. Publisher Daniel Bone told Melbou...

Leading researchers, community leaders and policy makers will come together in Melbourne in July to discuss the HIV epidemic and steps forward at the 20th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2014). Organizers of the conf...

Now in its 16th year, ChillOut has grown to become one of the biggest and longest-running Country Queer Pride event in regional Australia, and the largest festival in Hepburn Shire. First staged in 1997, ChillOut began a...

A rainbow flag will fly at Taylor Square until 2018, when a permanent public artwork acknowledging the city’s gay and lesbian community is installed. The City of Sydney Council has resolved to install the flag following ...

Marriage equality advocates have called on other states to follow NSW’s lead by introducing laws to remove the requirement for transgender partners to divorce before their gender is legally recognised. “These...

A sparkling, luminous and outlandish multi-sensory extravaganza took over Playbill Venues and Entertainment Quarter, when thousands of festival revellers flocked to the Mardi Gras Party for a world-class line-up of awe-i...

Large crowds have braved the threat of rain to view a record-breaking 144 entries make its way up Oxford and Flinders Streets for the 36th Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade. With the roar of the Dykes on Bikes, mo...