Jeff Chu's Does Jesus Really Love Me?: A Gay Christian’s Pilgrimage in Search of God in America has earned the type of press writers dreams of. Positive reviews for a work that searches for grace and humility when there is usually fire and brimstone. However, liberals and conservatives have found fault with the work for that exact reason. What can be expected when tackling the third rail of US politics and culture: gay sexuality and Christianity.

Bret Easton Ellis is becoming almost as well known for his controversial Twitter rants as for being the author of such works as American Psycho and The Rules of Attraction.

One of those rants - about being 'disinvited' to the GLAAD Media Awards - has the media monitoring organization accusing Ellis of creating a 'publicity stunt.'

Noted author and Harvard University history professor Niall Ferguson offered an apology for his recent comments about economist John Maynard Keynes.

'My colleagues, students, and friends – straight and gay – have every right to be disappointed in me, as I am in myself,' Ferguson wrote today (4 April) on his website. 'To them, and to everyone who heard my remarks at the conference or has read them since, I deeply and unreservedly apologize.'

The Colombian Senate rejected today (24 April) a marriage equality bill.

A majority of senators 51 opposed the bill while 17 were in favor, a day after they postponed a vote on the issue for a second time.

It seems that an agreement has been reached between Colombia’s two largest parties, the Conservative and the ‘U’, to not allow the bill to become law.

German film director Roland Emmerich is going to work on a new movie on the Stonewall’s riots of 1969.

The author of 2012, Stargate and The Day After Tomorrow will spend about $14 million (€11 million) to film the story of a gay homeless teen who comes to New York and joins the Stonewall’s community.

The Stonewall riots were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations by members of the gay community against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City.

A Californian radio station is considering banning Same Love by Macklemore after receiving a complaint over its pro-gay lyrics.

The American rapper released the song on his album last year, and features lyrics like 'the right wing conservatives think it's a decision, and you can be cured with some treatment and religion.'

Same Love’s music video references Washington Referendum 74, which legalized gay marriage in the Thrift Shop rapper’s home state.

Johns Hopkins University medical students have called for neurosurgeon and conservative author Dr Ben Carson to be dumped as a commencement speaker at the university in response to his comments likening those pushing for marriage equality to the pedophile group the North American Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) and people who have sex with animals.

A group of students from the Health and Human Rights Student Group of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health wrote an open letter to the university and organized a petition yesterday.

British actor and celebrity Stephen Fry interview with Vitaly Milonov, the author of St. Petersburg's 'gay propaganda' law.

Fry, who is openly gay and was shooting a documentary in St. Petersburg about LGBT rights, tweeted that he found little in common with Milonov.

Fry tweeted earlier: 'Milonov doesn't seem to believe there are teenagers bullied and tormented for being gay, he thinks they make it up & indoctrinate to minors'.

We all should have a friend like David Bedrick. The author and therapist shared a letter he recently wrote to a group of straight male friends. One night they were all out celebrating and, while Bedrick had a good time, there was a moment of discomfort.

'I believe it was twice that I heard someone say, in reference to our two friends who were about to be married, something like, “As long as it is to women,"' Bedrick wrote in an op-ed in the Advocate.

A Philadelphia drag queen was invited to read Dr Seuss stories in celebration of the author, but then rejected after school directors discovered her drag act.

Martha Graham Cracker was contacted by the school's project manager Mark Simmons who was hoping to 'add a bit of variety to our program', as reported by local news by phillymag.com.

Fans are protesting against DC Comics for hiring an anti-gay writer to pen Superman.

Orson Scott Card, author of the Ender’s Game sci-fi series, will write a new series of comics for DC’s Adventures of Superman to be published in April.

AllOut has now started a petition, urging DC to fire Card.

It states: ‘He’s written publicly that he believes marriage equality would lead to the end of civilization. He’s also on the board of a notorious anti-equality organization [National Organization for Marriage].

An American author has responded to internet trolls by pledging $5 to gay and civil rights charities every time he receives abuse.

Award-winning science fiction writer John Scalzi has raised over $50,000 (£32,000, €37,000) by today (6 February).

Trolls attacked the author for a pro-choice satirical blogpost from last year in which Scalzi adopted the persona of a rapist. One troll, which Scalzi affectionately calls 'the Racist Sexist Homophobic Dipshit', took particular issue.