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China's biggest group deals website, Meituan, is offering a free trip to Canada for a gay couple to marry

Protestors promise to remember the name of killed gay man Mark Carson

Riverdale teen Kevin Keller will lock lips with boyfriend in Pop Tate’s diner

British MPs have rejected amendments that would have watered down or delayed gay marriage proposals

Twin boys arrive early but are healthy and thriving

Tells GSN: 'Hopefully it works out ... it should be sorted out in the next few weeks'

The Church of Scotland's ruling General Assembly has voted to allow openly gay and lesbians to become ministers

Morehouse College speech calls on grads to have empathy for all minority groups

In an unforeseen shift of opinion, Australian MP Kevin Rudd has thrown his full support behind changing federal legislation on same sex marriage

Higher rates of bullying, suicide and self-harm, drug and alcohol use, smoking, and social isolation in old age revealed in study

Pub manager claims he was forced to leave his home and place of work after he chose to give Ipswich their gay pub back

62 Ukrainian parliamentarians signed a petition demanded from Kiev's mayor to ban a planned gay pride parade later this month

Those who make a difference to the LGBT community will be immortalized in a comic strip themed concert by the acclaimed London Gay Men’s Chorus

Married transgender people will need their husband or wife’s permission before they can have their gender recognized

Veteran gay activist Peter Tatchell says UK government is ‘inconsistent, hypocritical and wrong’ by offering same-sex marriage but not straight civil partnerships

Shadow Women and Equalities Minister Yvette Cooper tells opposition party MPs to not vote for Tim Loughton's opposite-sex civil partnerships amendment

Four years after the first openly gay reverend in a same-sex relationship was appointed to a new parish by the Church of Scotland, the governing body will decide whether to allow ministers in same-sex relationships

As members of parliament vote on the bill, the case for gay marriage gains support via twitter

Church 'unconvinced' there was a ‘genuine and widespread public need’ for change as gay marriage bill goes through UK parliament

Muslim leaders in Britain have claimed introducing gay marriage would undermine traditional families and take away parents’ and teachers’ rights

New YouGov poll shows majority of Britons support same-sex marriages and civil partnerships for straight couples

Straight starlets shared a quick lesbian kiss on ITV2 panel show Celebrity Juice

Tory party in-fighting and an amendment giving straight couples civil partnerships could delay the equal marriage bill until after the next election

Western Australia convenor of Australian Marriage Equality says that political leaders' resistance to gay marriage is bad for business

Survey from Aibai reveals that Chinese employees are not comfortable living open lives at work

Trans rights advocate Martine Delany is recovering in hospital after a heart attack on pitch during a game for Tasmania's women's league

For 28 years, there is a day in May when New Yorkers come together for for AIDS awareness and education

Christopher Bryant, editor of gay and lesbian online magazine Polari, and his partner were viciously beaten last night in an anti-gay attack

Club-goers took to social networking to report gunfire outside Vauxhall’s super-club Fire