A Wellington boys' college has banned a student from bringing his male date to this weekend's school ball.

Natalie Portman has signed Freedom to Marry's Say, "I Do" letter to President Barack Obama asking for marriage equality for gay couples.

Fat activism is the latest movement sweeping the globe as plus-size people rally against prejudice and discrimination.

Ricky Martin was scared to come out as gay because he thought homosexuality was "evil".

The Malaysian authorities are at the centre of an increasingly heated row after it emerged that 66 Muslim boys identified by teachers as "effeminate" had been dispatched to a special camp to discourage them from becoming gay.

Pauline Hanson has failed in her bid to be elected to the upper house of the NSW parliament.

Yet another scandal has rocked the Australian military.

The 17-yr-old son of a former Cabinet minister says he struggled as a closet homosexual boarder at King's College.

An amendment to stalking laws is expected to be introduced in the Victorian state Parliament tomorrow.

Testosterone-fuelled drivers will benefit from bid to erase gender inequality.

TV psychologist Nigel Latta is under fire for his use of the word mental.

There is a current of anti-Muslim feeling in Australia that suggests an entrenched hostility often related to overseas events.

A tribunal has upheld a race discrimination complaint against a legal definition used to deny disaster recovery payments and social security to thousands of New Zealanders living in Australia.