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Midsumma, Australia’s leading queer arts and cultural organisation, is in urgent need of new office accommodation

Eight months after out gay Independent Sydney MP Alex Greenwich’s omnibus LGBTQI Equality Bill was introduced in NSW Parliament, the proposed legislation is now up for public consultation.

Elon Musk’s X has said it would initiate legal action against Australia’s eSafety commissioner after being asked to take down a user’s offensive anti-trans post on its social media platform.

A bisexual Iranian refugee who is at the centre of a case before the High Court faces certain prosecution and the death penalty if Australia deports him, the National Union of Students Queer Officers claimed.

NSW became the fourth jurisdiction in Australia to ban harmful anti-LGBTQI conversion practices. NSW’s Upper House members sat overnight to pass the Labor government’s bill that makes so-called conversion therapy ...

In her first public comments, Luke Davies’ mother thanked those who donated generously to a crowdfunding campaign set up to help the family give the Qantas flight attendant ” the send-off he deserves.”

Australian Law Reform Commission in a landmark report on Thursday recommended the removal of exemptions given to religious schools that allow them to expel students and sack teachers for being LGBTQI.

Advocacy groups have urged Anthony Albanese to not delay a bill to protect LGBTQI students and staff in religious schools, with one group accusing the Prime Minister of “selling out” vulnerable students and staff across the country.

NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb on Sunday issued an apology to families of victims of anti-gay and anti-trans hate crimes in the state, months after a damning report highlighted the police’s failure to properly investigate those crimes.

In the lead-up to the state elections in Tasmania, LGBTQI advocacy group Equality Tasmania said they will seek a commitment from all parties and independents to bring in a ban on anti-gay conversion practices and enact LGBTQI law reforms if they are elected.