A gay couple in Argentina was allegedly attacked in the name of Pope Francis.

A group of people reportedly approached Pedro Robledo and his partner Agustín Sargiotto at a party saying ‘you are an embarrassment to the Argentine pope’ and ‘homosexuality is a sin’, according to news website El Diario.

In an interview with INFOnews, Robledo said: ‘A kid told me we had to leave because we were in a Catholic household, and we couldn’t have Argentine faggots when there’s an Argentine pope’.

A Paraguayan gay couple demands the right to register their marriage in their country.

Thirty-year old Simon Cazal and 20-year-old Sergio López were married last year in Argentina, the first Latin American country to approve nationwide gay marriage.

However, Paraguay has no laws for same-sex marriage or civil unions.

As part of their first year anniversary, the couple asked yesterday (22 March) a judge in Asunción, Paraguay’s capital, to order civil registry officials to record their marriage.

Newly-elected Pope Francis has received a frigid welcome from Argentina’s leading LGBT rights group.

In a statement released yesterday by the Argentine LGBT Federation (FALGBT), the organization condemns the election of Jorge Mario Bergoglio as the new pope, saying: ‘the election… marks a clear desire of the Vatican to radicalize its position against the recognition of diverse family structures’.

Pope Francis was elected as the leader of the Roman Catholic Church today (13 March).

Argentinian Jorge Mario Bergoglio, 76, was chosen by the conclave of 115 cardinals as a successor to Benedict XVI.

Tens of thousands of faithful Catholics broke into cheers as the white smoke indicated the new pontiff had obtained the required two thirds majority, which happened in the fifth round of voting over two days.

Francis is still a conservative choice, but has taught the ‘importance of respecting gay individuals’.

The campaign to legalize same-sex marriage in Australia has welcomed the election of Australia's first member of Parliament in a same-sex marriage.

Former Australian Marriage Equality (AME) national convener Alex Greenwich was elected on Saturday to the state of New South Wales’ (NSW) Lower House in a by-election in the seat of Sydney.

Greenwich married long term partner Victor Hoeld in Argentina in May this year.

The current convener of AME, Rodney Croome, welcomed his election.

Britain's ambassador to Chile has been forced to apologize after tweeting that Argentina's men were all 'gay'.

Jon Benjamin sent the comment to his 10,000 Twitter followers by accident, thinking he had sent his friend a direct message but in reality publishing the remarks on his main feed.

The tweet, written in Spanish, speaks about how he has bought a ticket for tonight's World Cup qualifying match between Chile and Argentina in Santiago.

Madonna turned 54 today (16 August), and the gay icon shows no sign of stopping after nearly three decades as the Queen of Pop.

The girl rarely takes a holiday, and keeps on releasing new music while other pop legends are happy to take a bow to the same old classics.

The Material Girl's 12th album MDNA stormed to the top of the charts in 20 countries from the United States to the UK, and Australia to Argentina.

Argentina is registering its first same-sex parent birth certificate.

According to an announcement by LGBT rights group Federación Argentina (FALGBT), the civil registry of Buenos Aires will officially register Tobias, a three-week old baby boy born in India, to gay parents Carlos Dermgerd and Alejandro Grinblat.

This allows the two fathers, who reportedly had problems filling out birth forms that were not suited for filing from two men, to take Tobias safely out of India and travel to Argentina.

Gay and straight tourists can now marry in four districts in Argentina.

The city of Buenos Aires passed a resolution on 18 May that approves the marriage of foreign couples regardless of their nationality or sexual orientation.

This March two men from Paraguay, Simón Cazal y Sergio López, became the first foreign gay couple to marry in Argentina. Cazal is president of the Paraguayan gay rights group SomosGay.

Alex Greenwich and Victor Höld, a gay couple from Sydney, Australia married 11 May.

It's not Facebook's fault. Don't blame the drag queens.

But Latin America is becoming gayer.

Gay, bi and trans communities in Latin America have always existed, albeit quietly. With gay rights issues gaining prominence around the world, LGBT communities in Latin America are making themselves known to their neighbors, politicians and the world.

'It's not that there are more gays and lesbians living in Latin America,' wrote Javier Corrales, political science professor at Amherst College and editor of the book The Politics of Sexuality in Latin America.

President Obama's historic endorsement of same-sex marriage, though pivotal in the fight for gay civil rights, is just that: an endorsement.

A leading Australian marriage equality advocate has been defended from a Christian lobby attack suggesting that his impending same-sex marriage is politically motivated.

Aspersions were cast on national convener of Australian marriage equality Alex Greenwich’s reasons for marrying his partner in Argentina.