It's official - Maine is the fifth American state to offer gay marriage after Governor John Baldacci signed it into law.
In sad news, popular Sydney DJ David Hiscock passed away from a heart-attack today. Hiscock's music has been a staple of Sydney's gay scene for the past few decades, best known as the resident DJ at the Midnight Shift club.
An 11 year old boy from Massachusetts, US, committed suicide after relentless homophobic bullying at school. Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover was found dead at his Springfield home last Monday night after hanging himself with an extension cable.
It's official - the Vermont legislature has voted to override a veto made earlier this week by Governor Jim Douglas, making it the fourth US state to currently offer gay marriage.
They've given the world Abba, Ikea and Volvo, now Sweden is to adopt a gender-neutral marriage law, which will allow same-sex couples in the country to marry. The decision came after six hours of Parliamentary debate.
Hannah Gadsby is something of an overnight success. And she owes it all to a friend who entered her in the 2006 Raw Comedy Competition, at the tender age of 28.
It looks like Vermont is going to be the next American state to legalise gay marriage. Yesterday the Vermont Senate voted to approve same-sex marriage with a landslide 26 to 4 vote.
On Saturday night American TV journalist Larry King spoke with country music darling Dolly Parton. During the interview he quizzed her about her thoughts on the gay community and rumours that she is a lesbian.
Sydney's Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras is just around the corner, and this year Same Same is doing something that's never been done before - we're opening up a temporary gay bar that's only open for the week of Mardi Gras, and then closes down forever.
A transgender sex worker has allegedly been beaten up by police officers after she refused to give them her money. The queer activist and avid campaigner for HIV/AIDS was reportedly threatened with death in an attempt to scare her from reporting it.
Jessica Mauboy loves the gays. Her level of enthusiasm, by no means low to begin with, bursts into orbit once I explain the audience I’m interviewing her for.
Margaret Cho is to star in a new TV series called Drop Dead Diva. The series centres on beautiful but shallow wannabe model who dies, and is reincarnated into an overweight woman's body.
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