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Victoria will be the first state to have a retirement village catering to the GLBT community.

Protesters Australia-wide rallied against the Catholic Church’s policies on homosexuality, abortion and contraceptives on World Youth Day (WYD) last Saturday, as the Pope addressed over 200,000 pilgrims at Sydney’s Randwick Racecourse.

Rare STD found in gay men

Two new cases of a rare sexually transmitted disease that predominately affects gay men have been reported in New Zealand.

Queer friendly employment

Employers seeking to embrace diversity will be under scrutiny from next year, thanks to a new program being developed by the Diversity Council of Australia and the National GLBT Health Alliance.

Gay honour killing in Turkey

Gay activist Ahmet Yildiz, a physics student who represented his country at an international gay gathering in San Francisco in 2007, was shot and killed last week after leaving an Istanbul café.

Support grows for gay soldiers