Yesterday (29 March) ABC News named entertainer Marie Osmond as its  Person-of the-Week. According to reporter Diane Sawyer, Osmond was given title because of recent legal arguments about gay marriage and Easter.

Morehouse College graduate Brian Alston Carter is proud of the steps his alma mater has taken to be more supportive of its gay and bisexual students. In 2009, the historically all male black college was in the media spotlight due to a new dress code. A few of the items on the 'no list' were dresses, tops, tunics, purses or pumps.

A Texan lawmaker who became the US state's first out elected official insists she is not lesbian, she's pansexual.

Mary Gonzalez hit the headlines in May for being Texas's first and only openly LGBT representative after winning the Democrat primary.

Despite initially accepting being defined as gay she has now come out as 'pansexual’, claiming she doesn’t believe in a 'gender binary' and is attracted to people of all identities, including transgender.

The intersex mayor of the Melbourne suburb of Hobsons Bay has announced that he is standing for re-election.

Councillor Tony Briffa became the world’s first openly intersex mayor in 2011. He announced his decision to stand for election as an independent councillor again in a statement on his website:

Gina Wilson president of Organisation Intersex International Australia (OII) writes about why they are against having an ‘intersex’ option on birth certificates, as proposed by a Canberra law council this week.

A lesbian couple from Glasgow said ‘I do’ to gay marriage during a mock wedding outside the Scottish parliament in Edinburgh.

Jaye and Ruth Richards-Hill symbolically tied the knot today at Holyrood to call for the legalization of same-sex marriage, as well as allow religious organizations to hold ceremonies if they want to.

Scotland’s ministers will announce the results of a consultation this month, with a finalized bill likely to appear by 2013.

The LGBT community in Nepal has welcomed a decision by the government to recognize third gender people as 'other' on citizenship identification cards.

Third gender refers to people who consider themselves neither male nor female and includes people who present or perform as a gender that is different from the one that was assigned to them at birth.

It can also include people who do not feel that the male or female gender roles dictated by their culture match their true social, sexual, or gender identity.

A Tennessee high school journalism teacher has outraged the community after publishing a pro-gay article of a graduating student in the yearbook.

The article called ‘It’s OK to be Gay’, written by an anonymous student staff writer of Lenoir City High School, profiles the experiences of American gay student Zac Mitchell.

Nepalese member of parliament and LGBT campaigner Sunil Babu Pant has started a petition to make Facebook a more inclusive place for transgender and gender variant people.

The All Out campaign calls on Facebook to change the current profile settings and add an additional 'third gender' for  members whose gender identity doesn't fit within simple male or female checkboxes.

Dharun Ravi, the former Rutgers student accused of spying on his roommate Tyler Clementi, was found guilty Friday (16 March) of some charges of bias intimidation, invasion of privacy, and tampering with evidence.

Bias intimindation is a hate crime based on the fact that Clementi was gay.

Clementi committed suicide by jumping off of the George Washington Bridge in the days after he discovered that his private dorm room encounters with another man had been secretly recorded by Ravi via web cam and discussed it on Twitter with other students.

Protesters are today calling on Lady Gaga to back their campaign for Harvard University to overturn its expulsion of gay students almost a century ago.

In 1920, Harvard president Abbott Lawrence Lowell began a 'secret court' which hunted down gay people studying at the Ivy League college in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

When Phoebe Hart hit puberty, she found out she would never get a period or have children. The reason why was a family secret, until this Sunday when Hart's documentary Orchids: My Intersex Adventure will be broadcasted on Australian TV channel ABC1. She speaks to Gay Star News about making the film and her own very personal story.