A popular Auckland primary school has been praised for installing a unisex toilet to help a 6-year-old transgender pupil feel safe and accepted.

While gay and lesbian characters are standard players in movies and TV shows for adults, they remain a fleeting or barely acknowledged presence in children's entertainment.

Gay Anglicans are reacting with a mix of fury and resignation after the Anglican Synod today failed to approve the blessing of gay marriages.

After success with Vanity Fair, Caitlyn Jenner is set to strip off altogether for a risque Sports Illustrated summer cover.

Civil War directors say it only makes sense to better reflect their diverse audience in upcoming Marvel films.

A transgender woman who claims she was forced out of her job at an Auckland barbershop has been cleared to pursue her claim of unjustified dismissal

How one man fell for another, 50 years his junior.

Patrick Stewart stunned onlookers when he arrived at a Los Angeles event dressed in drag.

The 100 did something television shows do all of the time: It killed off a major character. The reaction to this particular onscreen death was different.

Demi Lovato and Caitlyn Jenner are among the recipients of the 27th GLAAD Media Awards.

EXCLUSIVE: Primetime local television is about to feature its first transgender actor playing a transgender character in a long-running storyline.

Two New Zealand schools are offering the new bathrooms to help students who do not feel comfortable using bathrooms labelled "male" and "female".

Somewhere over the rainbow, on the other side of the Mardi Gras celebrations, there's probably a massive hangover waiting for many of the weekend's revellers.

The Sydney Mardi Gras parade began in 1978 as a march and commemoration of the 1969 Stonewall Riots of New York. It is an annual event promoting awareness of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender issues and themes.

Caitlyn Jenner's offer to be a "trans ambassador" to US Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz has drawn criticism from some members of the LGBT community.

Ahead of a new exhibition marking the 30th anniversary of the Homosexual Law Reform Act, David Herkt reveals what it was like to grow up gay in the 1970s, while Sam Brooks explains what it's like today.

They're just photos of my friends, who were transexuals, dancing and having a good time.

Prime Minister John Key's latest public outing has again been marred by protests against the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Prime Minister John Key has been booed off stage at today's Big Gay Out festival by a group of vocal anti-Trans Pacific Partnership protesters.

Speaking at today’s Big Gay Out festival in Auckland, Prime Minister John Key said the people of Christchurch were “resilient”. He was pleased no one had been seriously injured in today’s violent quake but said it was unfortunate that it came so close to the five-year anniversary of the killer February 2011 earthquake.

Five of the best LGBTI events around the world.

Once a year, Sydney plays host to a hedonistic celebration of diversity.

Transgender actress Lexie Matheson appears in an all-women version of Shakespeare's Henry V at Auckland's Pop Up Globe Theatre this month.

Jennifer Dann finds out what audiences can expect from New Zealand's first LGBTIQ Literary Festival this month.

How one couple are paving the way for the nation's conversation about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights.

Pair's blog calls for the boys school to change how it deals with gay and transgender students.

They had been on holiday just just two days when when they were arrested, put behind bars and forced to live on the streets.

A beauty pageant contestant is appalled to learn she has been disqualified from a competition because she was born a different gender.