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Authorities in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, have forced US artist Rhea Litré US to perrform out of drag

UN's resident co-ordinator in Vietnam praises the Southeast Asian nation's LGBT rights achievements in the last year

Australian Christian Lobby equates gay marriage to the removal of aboriginal children from their families, stolen generation representative calls for apology for 'disrespectful' and 'dehumanizing' comments

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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