Australia’s memorable marriage equality video ad, “It’s time,” could air on networks across the United States through the work of an organization focused on bringing grass roots media to mainstream attention. Social Teeth has started an online donation campaign to raise $50,000 so that millions of Americans can experience the brilliance of “It’s time” and take away its important message.

(Editor's note: Several Australian states are debating marriage equality, including Tasmania, regardless of what Parliament decides to do. This could set up in Australia a similar situation as in the U.S., where some states legalize same-sex marriage and others do not.)

CANBERRA, Australia -- A two-hour debate over a same-sex marriage bill in the Australian parliament today indicated that there is not enough support to change the law.

An Australian doctor who is a member of a controversial Christian sect, and who prescribed a chemical castration drug commonly given to sex offenders to a gay teenager, has been banned from practicing as a General Practitioner.

Dr. Mark Craddock, 75, a member of the Exclusive Brethren sect in Australia, wrote a script for the anti-androgen drug cyproterone acetate, sold under the brand name Cyprostat, at his home in 2008 for a visiting 18 year-old New Zealander who had recently confessed his homosexuality to church leaders.

The Republican National Convention gets down to business today in Tampa, Fla., where delegates are expected to overwhelmingly pass the Republican Party platform that is unequivocally against marriage for gay and lesbian couples. Despite that, could 2012 turn out to be the year of marriage equality?

A look at the political landscape, across the globe and the United States, is trending toward marriage equality.

France almost certain to legalize marriage equality this year