A newspaper article from 1932 has been uncovered that shows that gay men were seeking to marry each other in Australia as long ago as 80 years ago.

In an article in the tabloid The Arrow newspaper entitled Wide Open Immorality, the newspaper’s writers describe a growing gay subculture with men marrying men and appeal for police action to halt the phenomenon.

As part of a stand against Australian laws prohibiting same-sex marriages, a gay man is planning to marry a lesbian bride at a demonstration in Brisbane.

Chad St James, a student filmmaker and gay rights activist is marrying lesbian Kristan Walker this Sunday (26 May) forming what has been described as a government endorsed ‘gay’ marriage.

On Facebook, the gay husband-to-be said ‘needless to say I'm all kinds of nervous and stressed’ about marrying Kristan, a fellow marriage equality activist.

Brisbane gay rights activist Chad St. James is seeking funding for a documentary about the battle to legalize same-sex marriage in Australia.

The film, Love Like Yours, follows the highs and lows of the fight for marriage equality in Australia including the votes in parliament that failed to pass the legislation and the imaginative costumes and sloganeering at rallies across the country.

A woman who manipulated her two lovers into committing a million dollar fraud pleaded guilty yesterday (19 November).

Brisbane District Court Judge Hugh Botting sentenced Luisa Touli for ‘emotionally blackmailing’ two women into stealing AU$1.4 million (£914k, €1.13m) forcing the closure of six jewelry stores and 60 members of staff to lose their jobs, the Australian reports. 

The 2012 Brisbane Pride Festival celebrates the LGBT family through September this year, beginning with a launch party on the night of August 31.

This year’s theme for the festival is ‘We are family,’ which Brisbane Pride Festival president Deeje Hancock said was about celebrating a sense of community.

‘We want to celebrate all that is wonderful and wild about our community, and we have a fantastic array of events that reflect the interests of our diverse queer community,’ Hancock told the Gay News Network.

A bitter custody battle is raging in Brisbane Federal Magistrate’s court this week, with a gay dad saying his obese ex-wife has a ‘co-dependent relationship’ with their eldest son, ‘even to the point of joint comfort eating’.

The mother of the two boys, aged ten and eight, denies their father’s claims. She wants to take her sons to live with her in her hometown of Christchurch, New Zealand.

But the boys’ father says his ex-wife’s family in Christchurch is ‘homophobic’ and ‘racist’ and he doesn’t want his sons to be influenced by them.

LGBTs in the Australian state of Queensland have picketed the Liberal National Party’s state conference in Brisbane to protest the government’s winding back of LGBT rights.

Around a hundred people picketed the conference on Saturday, holding up placards with slogans including, ‘Pride not Prejudice,’ ‘Homophobia has to go,’ and ‘Hate is not a Family Value’ outside the Brisbane Hilton hotel.

Around 2,000 people marched to the Queensland parliament in Brisbane, Australia last night to protest the new state government’s treatment of the LGBT community.

The rally entitled Defend Civl Unions, Save Healthy Communities delivered a double message to the new Liberal National Party, who took over from the Labor Party at the end of March.

Civil unions for same-sex couples were legalized in Queensland just three weeks before the change in government.

Australia's opposition party, and predicted winners of Queensland's upcoming state election, have failed to provide a candidate for a debate at Brisbane’s Gay and Lesbian Business Network tonight.

As Mardi Gras hits Sydney and the gay marriage debate begins to heat up in Australia, three same-sex couples are to dine with Prime Minister Julia Gillard this Tuesday to discuss the issue.

Sharon Dane and her wife Elaine Crump, a lesbian couple from Brisbane will be attending, along with two other couples, John and Steve from Victoria and Sandy and Lou from NSW.

Among them will be Australian Marriage Equality National Convener, Alex Greenwich, who was invited by the PM’s office.

According to a report by The Courier Mail, the controversial and prejudice-fuelled gathering, Hammered Music Festival, is scheduled to take place in Brisbane this year at an undisclosed location.

The annual festival that features local and international race-hate music, as well as acting as a gathering point and networking site for many of its followers, is already being advertised across white pride websites.