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Australian police have been accused of brutality after a video surfaced that shows officers roughly handling a man during the city’s gay and lesbian Mardi Gras festival.

A prominent gay Australian politician married his longtime partner Wednesday in southern Spain, two months after his country voted down a proposal to enact same-sex marriage legislation.

Two women in Australia have been sentenced to prison and a third one is awaiting trial after stealing over $1.4 million dollars from a chain of jewelry stores where one of the women worked as an accountant.

A Qatar man is on trial for stabbing a Texas man 14 times in Perth, Australia, apparently because of jealousy over a gay love triangle.

The Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives has resigned after texts revealed that he used inappropriate language with a former gay staffer who is currently suing him for sexual harassment.

Police are determining if the murder in his own apartment of a gay Egyptian man who moved to Australia to avoid persecution may have been a hate crime.

Australian lawmakers overwhelmingly rejected a bill Wednesday that would have legalized gay marriage, and similar legislation looked unlikely to pass despite public support for same-sex marriage.

A gay college student at North Dakota State College alleges he was kicked off the football team for kissing his 65-year-old boyfriend; meanwhile, in Australia, a soccer player is launching an anti-homophobia campaign.

An Australian doctor from a conservative Christian group has been banned from practicing medicine after he prescribed a drug used for castration for a gay teen.

One of the freshest Festivals to hit the LGBT calendar in the past couple of years is Australia’s CoastOut Festival. Now in its third year, CoastOut has already become a popular annual event with international visitors.