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Tel Aviv may get first gay mayor, pledges to invest in LGBTs

Nitzan Horowitz hopes to become Tel-Aviv's first gay mayor and invest in the city's community and diversity

UK politician angered at anti-gay marriage comments on ballot papers

Voters expressed their opposition to the pro equal marriage councillors views when electing him to Leicestershire County Council

Dog’s life saved after owner found out pet was intersex

Vets discover dog is intersex, and save her life when they discover her testicles could have become cancerous

Gay gangster accuses jury of 'Googling' him before guilty verdict

Frank Carberry, who was sentenced in 2006 for indecent assault, has employed human rights lawyers to overturn his conviction

Delaware set to vote on gay marriage

US state's governor has vowed to sign the approval into law when the general assembly go to the polls on 8 May

Yumbo fire: British man arrested at Gran Canaria gay pride

Yumbo Center, the hub for gay travelers and residents at the Maspalomas Gay Pride, will stay open after serious fire

Facebook hate page: ‘Nazis were right’ about gays

Heterosexual Awareness Month page says gay men’s mouths smell of ‘poo poo’ and implies NBA player Jason Collins will give people who tackle him a sex infection

Olympic swimmer comes out as gay

Amini Fonua, who represented the South Pacific islands nation of Tonga at London 2012, comes out as gay, despite going to an 'LGBT-unfriendly' American university

Cross-dresser painter dedicates show to Lucy Meadows

Artist who lives nearby to where transgender primary school teacher Meadows lived and worked dedicates his exhibition to her memory and 'the message of acceptance' 

Texas Governor Rick Perry compares keeping gays out of scouts to fighting slavery

'Boy Scouts will start on a decline that I don’t think will serve this country well'

Anti gay former priest gatecrashes LGBT Church service

A former priest gatecrashed an LGBT Church service, wearing an anti-gay message, at the opening of Bergen Pride week, in Norway

Televangelist Pat Robertson: Gays can change just like murderers, rapists, and thieves

Claims anyone who ministers knows 'very well that the power of God can change people's orientation'

Outspoken LGBT activist Chris Kluwe is cut by NFL's Minnesota Vikings

Team doesn't say if Kluwe's high-profile activism was a factor

Russian protestors defy gay gag law and police threats for May Day parade

An estimated 100 LGBT activists risked arrest and violence by joining the May Day march with pro-gay banners and rainbow flags 

Obama: ‘The right thing to do’ is to include gay couples in immigration reform

President Barack Obama announced his support of new immigration laws that would allow American citizens to apply for visas for their same-sex partners

Gay Catholic group threatened with arrest by NYPD for silent protest

'Dirty Hands Vigil' staged in response to a cardinal’s invite that gays ‘wash their hands’ to participate in the Catholic faith

Fire at Yumbo: Suspected arson attack on Gran Canaria gay pride

Police arrest suspected arsonist after four gay businesses at Yumbo Center go up in smoke during Maspalomas Gay Pride

British PM David Cameron pressured by own party: ‘Drop gay marriage bill’

Prime Minister David Cameron is urged his own Tory MPs to drop the gay marriage bill to secure Conservative seats in next year’s elections

Cuba president’s daughter wins US gay rights award

Mariela Castro wins an award for her groundbreaking LGBT rights advocacy work

New Zealand: gay man ‘humiliated’ and ‘disappointed’ over priesthood rejection

Eugene Sisneros is claiming he was not allowed to enter into priesthood training because he’s in a gay relationship

Lesbians legally married in Cambodia despite no law change

Some lesbian women who have lived together for over ten years in some provinces in Cambodia could be the first legally recognized gay couples in Asia

New Zealand anti-gay-marriage group to lose charity status

'Groups that think differently to the prevailing politically correct view will be targeted in an attempt to shut them up,' says Family First NZ national director Bob McCoskrie

Anti-gay marriage candidates win Tasmania election

Despite a campaign to make local election all about marriage equality, anti-gay-marriage candidates win all three contested seats in Australian state of Tasmania

World's first transgender MP seriously ill

New Zealand's Georgina Beyer, who became the world's first openly transgender MP in 1999, has chronic kidney failure

Anti-gay coalition win election in Malaysia

Ruling Barisan Nasional coalition, who regularly support anti-gay policies, will return to government in Malaysia - but several vocally homophobic politicians lose their seats
 

Albania passes landmark gay hate crime laws

Two laws just approved by Albania's parliament make it one of the countries with the most advanced legislation in the region for protection of LGBT people

LGBT ally Brendon Ayanbadejo talks about Jason Collins' coming out on Meet the Press

LGBT ally Brendon Ayanbadejo goes on Meet the Press to discuss the importance of Jason Collins coming out

Estonia: 35,000 sign petition to oppose legal recognition of same-sex couples

A petition against the recognition of gay couples has garnered triple the signatures expected by organizers

Italy’s Biancofiore says gays 'ghettoise' themselves, gets fired

After just 48 hours as the newly elected Equalities Minister, Michaela Biancofiore has been reassigned to a different role for her continued homophobic remarks 

Male rape and assault charges ‘are completely false’ says gay MP Nigel Evans

Deputy Speaker Nigel Evans, released on bail last night after being arrested for male rape and assault charges, made a live statement today revealing he knows his accusers