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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

A rally will be held at New York’s LGBT community center at 5:30 pm on 20 May in honor of Mark Carson

Hundreds of Muslim leaders throughout the UK have signed a letter in a unified protest against the government’s same-sex marriage bill

UFC lightweight division fighter Nate Diaz has been suspended for three months and fined $20,000 over a homophobic tweet directed at another fighter in the latest sign that homophobia will not be tolerated in the sport

18 year old Florida schoolgirl Kaitlyn Hunt was kicked off her basketball team, expelled from school and is now being prosecuted after her 15 year old girlfriend’s parents complained about their relationship

Finland’s Krista Siegfrids kisses one of her female dancers after performance of her song Marry Me

San Francisco LGBT activists declared Bradley Manning as the People’s Grand Marshal, protesting against the city’s Pride leaders’ decision not to honor him

Culprit in police custody for homicide where anti-gay slurs were allegedly used

LGBT rights advocates have been detained in at least two cities in China while engaging in IDAHO activities

A lesbian woman has 30 days to evacuate her home after a judge ruled only relatives by ‘blood or marriage’ can be around her partner’s kids past 9 pm

An employment tribunal ruled this week that detective Kevin Maxwell suffered from homophobic and racist bullying in the police force

Montpellier’s mayor proudly announced that the first gay marriage in France would take place in her city in just ten days time

Jamaica’s Education Minister has claimed that pro-gay materials in schools could ‘groom’ children towards becoming gay and would be offensive to ‘majority sentiments’

Australian Opposition leader Tony Abbott’s electorate office has been picketed by over 100 people calling for him to allow a free vote on marriage equality after France legalized same-sex marriage

Barronelle Stutzman claims that it is she who is being discriminated against

Had been conspicuously absent from recent events, does not give reason for departure

Civil partnerships for straight couples are for people who are 'pursuing “equality” as an abstract concept’, Church of England claims

Russian city’s LGBT population holds demonstration for IDAHO despite propaganda law. Thugs attack

Portuguese parliament votes for partial adoption law for same-sex couples but stops short of full equality

French Constitutional Council has validated same-sex marriage equality

Ban Ki-moon speech delivered at The Hague as part of International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO)

Thousands of anti-gay activists and priests have injured IDAHO supporters and the police in a violent, homophobic counter-protest

Gay dating site’s co-founder Henry Badenhorst exits business. New management team pledge to ‘reinvigorate the global dating scene’

Police stop LGBT community from holding procession aimed at stopping homosexuality being a criminal offence

GSN teams up with London Gay Men’s Chorus and London Gay Big Band to spread the word about fighting homophobia and transphobia

Lesbians, young people and poorer people face highest levels of discrimination and harassment in survey of 27 EU members states plus Croatia

UK Culture Secretary and Equalities Minister Maria Miller says there will be a review into whether straight people will want a civil partnership