Businesses and organizations throughout the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) are being encouraged to demonstrate their support for the LGBT community and intersex people by getting involved in a renewed Safe Place program which launched today in Sydney.

Set up in 1991, the program originally involved participating venues displaying a sign which identified them as a place of refuge for victims of street-based homophobic violence, with venue staff receiving training and resources to help them provide appropriate support.

An Australian community activist who is neither male or female has won an appeals verdict in the Supreme Court of New South Wales (NSW), recognizing a third sex status for the first time in Australia.

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New South Wales (NSW) legislative assembly has passed a motion introduced by Sydney MP Alex Greenwich to welcome American openly gay bishop Gene Robinson to the Australian state.

The legislative assembly unanimously passed the motion showing that Australian politicians can agree on one aspect of LGBT rights, as the same-sex marriage debate rages on.

New South Wales roads minister Duncan Gay has won the dubious honor of a Golden Gloria on Wednesday night (8 May).

The Glorias (Gay & Lesbian Outrageous, Ridiculous and Ignorant comment Awards) have 'celebrated' the worst examples of homophobia in Australia and beyond annually since 2010.

Australian independent MP Tony Windsor has proposed that the nation say yes or no to gay marriage in a referendum in September.

Windsor suggests taking the issue 'out of the hands of the politicians' and letting the public vote on the issue on the day of the general election - 14 September.

The government is planning to hold a referendum on recognizing local government in the constitution on that day, so it would not be much of an extra cost to include an extra question on the ballot paper.

Australian opposition leader Tony Abbott has left open the door for fellow MPs to make a conscience vote on same-sex marriage.

This came on the heels of his Liberal party’s New South Wales premier coming out in support of same-sex marriage and calling for free choice. The party’s youth wing has also been calling on Abbott to change.

Local residents across Sydney have created their own rainbow crossings in chalk after the New South Wales (NSW) State Government dismissed public pressure and had a rainbow pride crossing installed for the Sydney Mardi Gras torn up in the dead of night on Wednesday.

Not even Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore had been told that road workers would be blocking off Sydney’s iconic Oxford Street to tear up the rainbow section of the road and replace it with black bitumen.

British gay singer George Michael has returned to UK after reportedly spending two months in rehab for ‘emotional anxiety’.

The 'Faith' singer secretly checked into The Sanctuary clinic in Byron Bay, New South Wales, the Metro reports.

A statement from the singer’s spokesperson said: ‘There is no truth in the rumor circulating on Twitter about George Michael. George Michael is perfectly fine.’

The City of Sydney will be forced to spend $35,000 to remove a rainbow flag gay pride crossing on Sydney’s Oxford Street despite the City wanting to keep it and police having no issue with it.

The festival finished at the beginning of March but the organizers of Sydney Mardi Gras got together last night to reward the best of the hard work that went into it.

At a ceremony in Beresford Hotel in Sydney awards were presented for the best stalls at Fairday, the best events of the month-long festival, floats in the parade and those who volunteered their time for free to make the festival happen.

Nominations are open for the fourth annual GLORIA awards that highlight the worst examples of homophobic or transphobic comments from public figures.

'Every day GLTBI people and their families are subject to homophobic and transphobic comments from people in public life,' said Labor Member of the New South Wales (NSW) legislative assembly Penny Sharpe who started the GLORIAs.

'These awards are a chance to turn the tables and put the focus back on to those people making discriminatory comments.'

Police have launched a third investigation into claims of brutality after a man claims he was ordered to strip fully naked at Sydney Mardi Gras.

Gary Leeson, 55, said he was ‘humiliated’ and ‘bullied’ when New South Wales police ordered him to remove his clothes – including his underpants – during a drug search.