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Wendelinus Hamutenya claims organizers of gay pageant are trying to 'sabotage' his work

Hundreds join colorful Delhi Queer Pride parade, sending a powerful message to country's conservative majority

Gay cabin crew supervisor, Thomas Crayston, given community order and told to compensate Ryanair for thefts

Princes William and Harry follow in mom Diana’s footsteps by backing Terrence Higgins Trust

First openly transgender lawmaker in New Hampshire, US, served prison sentence for conspiracy to commit credit card fraud

Datin Seri Paduka Rosmah Mansor says ‘you have to nip it [homosexuality] in the bud’

LGBT rights groups have urged Newark’s mayor Cory Booker to run for the post of New Jersey state governor

Former French first lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, stated that she supports same-sex marriage and adoption

A woman in Australia's Northern Territory broke into her lover's room and stabbed her 17 times 

Paul Diamond believes Jamaica should resist pressure from the US or UK to remove buggery laws
 

UN Human Rights Committee passed a landmark ruling saying a Russian law against ‘homosexual propaganda’ is discriminatory, violates the basic right for freedom of expression and unconstitutional

For the first time, the United Nations acknowledges a need for protections from executions on the basis of gender identity.
 

The Chief of Australia’s defense forces commemorated the 20th anniversary of the end of its ban on openly gay personnel as the organization works to improve support for LGBT members

Thousands took to the streets this weekend in support of marriage equality, while the Australian Green party pledged to move legislation in every parliament in the land

An extremist Salafist militia in Libya captured twelve men promising to mutilate and kill them for allegedly being gay

Anders Lindegaard says young gay people need a 'hero' to look up to, urging for a top-level footballer to come out

Among the 118 Tories planning to vote against marriage equality is gay MP Conor Burns, who says LGBT people do not want to be married

A gay couple who faked an armed robbery of one of the men’s employers to steal $18,000 have been jailed in the Australian state of Victoria

Police in India’s eighth largest city are developing guidelines on how to deal with members of the LGBT community, while officers from across the city have attended a workshop on LGBT issues this weekend

Jim Humes is historic appointee of Governor Jerry Brown

At the funeral in Rome, Italy, the mother of the 15-year-old boy who hanged himself says that 'the only pink was that of his sensibility'

Fever 107.3 FM received complaints after comments made by Sister Ruby

Would define marriage as being between one man and one woman

Derek Riordan, former player for Scotland's national football team, hurled homophobic abuse at nightclub staff in Edinburgh

Unconfirmed reports indicate Uganda's anti-gay bill will no longer include the death penalty as a maximum punishment for 'aggravated homosexuality'

Charity launches tool to help people find an HIV test online, via Facebook or on their iPhone

Simon Rodgers returned to his school in York, England, to tell students there is no place for homophobia in the classroom

Rally held today in London over asylum seeker's deportation and Uganda’s ‘Kill the Gays’ bill

David Cecil allowed to leave country until trial resumes in January, while Uganda debates 'kill the gays' bill