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Despite judge's earlier comment about the 'hope of home detention', transgender woman is sent to male prison for over two years

'I think I’ve helped to solidify this incredibly rapid transformation in people’s attitudes'

Former Chelsea and Liverpool player Raul Meireles has been banned for 11 matches after spitting on a referee

Speaking to the Vatican bureaucracy, he denounced the manipulation of gender to suit a person's sexual urges

The Court of São Paulo ruled that state notaries are now required to register same-sex marriages without first getting court approval

Britain's Football Association says action plan to tackle homophobia should give gay players confidence to be open about their sexuality

Taiwan’s Supreme Justices will deliver the final word on same-sex marriage in 2013 – potentially creating the first legal same-sex marriages in Asia

Richard Adams brought the first court case seeking to have his marriage to Australian husband Tony Sullivan recognized by the US and then lived with him illegally under fear of Sullivan’s deportation for the next four decades when that failed

'The momentum is clearly now in the direction'

Italian LGBT associations are reacting angrily to a journalist who branded the Renaissance painter as 'normal, not homosexual'

A couple are targets for hate after the Catholic Church condemned their 'gay' nativity scene with two Josephs

Gays and people with disabilities are being forced into marriage in Scotland, according to new figures

Polish Catholic bishops are furious after the country signs European convention on violence against women

Moves by European countries to legalize same-sex marriage may spark debate on the issue in their Caribbean dependencies