Australia Marriage Equality are holding rallies across the country tomorrow to celebrate President Obama’s support of gay marriage and to pressurise Australia’s Prime Minister Julia Gillard to follow suit.

The National Day of Action for Marriage Equality will consist of rallies in central locations in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth, Canberra, Adelaide and Hobart at 1pm tomorrow (Saturday 12 May).

Openly gay former political advisor Dean Smith will be sworn in as Australia's newest senator today, following the death in March of Western Australia Senator Judith Adams from cancer.

Smith is the socially conservative Liberal Party's first openly gay parliamentarian, but he opposes gay marriage.

A leading Australian marriage equality advocate has been defended from a Christian lobby attack suggesting that his impending same-sex marriage is politically motivated.

Aspersions were cast on national convener of Australian marriage equality Alex Greenwich’s reasons for marrying his partner in Argentina.

A psychiatrist in the US has apologized for claiming that 'highly motivated' gays could turn straight.

In his 2001 study, Dr Robert Spitzer stated that gay men and women can change their sexual orientation if they want to, endorsing so-called 'reparative therapies' which claim to 'cure' people of homosexuality.

However, earlier this month (April 2012) Spitzer retracted his claims and has now apologized.

Mitt Romney's new foreign policy spokesperson has a Twitter history of sexist comments.

The Liberal National Party’s Queensland leader Campbell Newman will assume office as state premier today (26 Mar) with election promises including repealing same-sex partnership that gave his party a landslide victory over the weekend.

SBS news presenter and finance journalist, Ricardo Goncalves, known to be openly gay among the Sydney LGBTI community, was unaware he was being filmed whilst bantering with a colleague.

The Australian-Portuguese anchor appeared to be rehearsing ahead of his 9.30pm bulletin when a makeup artist came into shot, powdering his nose.

Since Thursday, gay couples in Queensland, Australia have able to register for civil unions. For the first time, the state legally recognises same-sex relationships, some decades old. But if, as the polls predict, the Liberal National Party (LNP) win the state election in less than a month, those rights could be taken away.

Gay Games Ambassador and champion powerlifter Chris Morgan has launched a Timeline of LGBT Sport for LGBT History Month 2012.

The six time British champion and six time Gay Games gold medalist in powerlifiting has compiled a comprehensive timeline of the achievements of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender sportspeople in Britain dating from 1976 to present day.

Ellen DeGeneres turns 54 years old today and it is no surprise that she marked the day with humor.

Fellow talk show host Jimmy Kimmel guested on The Ellen DeGeneres show and paid tribute to the lesbian icon with a video he called 'the true story of Ellen's life.

' It's not clear how much DeGeneres knew about the video. She had tweeted Wednesday (24 January): 'My staff isn't looking me in the eye. They don't want to let on to my birthday surprises. Either that or I have poppy seeds in my teeth.'

British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran received a congratulatory phone call from mentor Elton John wishing him good luck following the announcement of the Brit Award nominees last Thursday.

Sheeran, 21, leads this year's awards with four nominations for Best Male Solo Act, Best Breakthrough Act, Mastercard British Album of the Year for his album + and Best British Single for his song A Team.

Sheeran told The Sun: 'I speak to Elton on a weekly basis. He's very involved. I got a talk from him after the BRITs nominations.

Kim Wayans knew she had it in her.

The actress best known for her work on such television comedies as In Living Color, In the House and A Different World, takes on a heavy dramatic role as the mother of a lesbian teen in Pariah which hits theaters on Friday (30 December).

The role calls for Wayans, 50, to play a religious woman in a troubled marriage who desperately does not want her daughter (played by Adepero Oduye) to be gay and tries to choose everything from her clothes to her friends.