Italian scientist and journalist Gian Paolo Vanoli is making the headlines in Italy after claiming vaccines make you gay or lesbian.

Interviewed by Vice.com, Vanoli said: ‘When a vaccine is injected into a child, it is a sort of poison and makes the child gay.

‘This is a problem we’ll notice in the next generations, because now gay people want children and these children will inherit their parents’ DNA.

‘Homosexuality is a disease. I know that the World Health Organization does not think so, but I don’t care.

The doctors of an HIV infected  baby have announced they have cured the child.

As reported by the New York Times, the infant was born in rural Mississippi (a southern US state). Antiretroviral drugs were administered approximately 30 hours after birth. This type of procedure is uncommon with newborns, but could  turn into standard procedure if the case is confirmed.

Boy George has lost a lot of weight and the world has started to notice.

The former Culture Club lead singer, now 51, has been tweeting about his healthier eating habits for some time now. But it wasn't until his appearance at Sunday's Whatsonstage.com Awards in London that photos of a slimmer George went viral - including one he posted on Twitter of himself before leaving for the event.

'I love that the size of my ass is trending worldwide,' he tweeted to his more than 248,000 followers this week.

A Tennessee dog owner left their pet in a high-kill animal shelter because he believed it was ‘gay’.

The shelter urged people to save the dog, whose name is unknown, and adopt it before it was due to be put down.

According to the owner of the shelter Jackson Rabies Control, the dog's master noticed him 'hunched over' another male dog, which led him to assume he was gay.

India's home ministry has issued guidelines that will end many gay couples' hopes of parenthood via surrogates.

The guidelines say that only men and women who have been married for two years will be granted visas for the purpose of surrogacy, Times of India reports.

Doctors have urged the UK government to allow young gay men access to the vaccine for Human Papilloma Virus (HPV). 

Leading medical professionals are urging the UK government to give gay men access to a vaccine that could prevent anal cancer.

The British Medical Association (BMA) said the Gardasil vaccine, which prevents Human papillomavirus (HPV) and will given to young schoolgirls from next September, should given to gays in sexual health clinics.

British police deny they are targeting the LGBT community by demanding DNA samples from gay men who were convicted of 'victimless' sexual offences.

Gay rights activist Peter Tatchell is calling on the Home Secretary and Chief Constables to halt the police's 'homophobic witch hunt' of gay men convicted under the UK's gross indecency law, despite the legislation being repealed in 2003.

The veteran campaigner claims forces in Greater Manchester and Northumbria have threatened to arrest the men if they fail to comply with their demands.

Spencer Cox, a leading AIDS activist who led research on protease inhibitors which saved millions of lives, died of AIDS-related causes at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York City.

He was 44-years-old at the time of his death, yesterday morning (18 December).

Cox became the spokesperson to the AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT UP) at the age of 20 and soon after cofounded its off-shoot, the Treatment Action Group (TAG).

HIV among gay men in the Philippines is spreading rapidly, but in an age when the virus is a manageable disease the tragedy is that many are getting sick and dying before taking the test because they fear the stigma.

'It used to be that the friend of a friend of a friend that would catch it but now it’s friends,' says writer and academic J. Neil C. Garcia. 'And they’re just dying. The stigma is so bad they don’t even consult with doctors even if they are getting sick all the time.'

You've kept us coo-ing and ahh-ing all week with your pictures and videos of your cute pets for our Gay Pet Month competition.

We've seen a whole selection of photos ranging from friendly felines to dainty adorable dogs which are now in the running for winning that big prize.

And we want you to keep sending them in so that you're in for a chance too. To encourage you, and because we can't resist, we're sharing some of the pictures we've been sent so far.

Thomas Beatie had a full sex-change operation earlier this year but kept his womb just in case he wanted to give birth to more children.

Beatie, who gained notoriety in 2007 because he was legally a man when he gave birth to his first child that year and two more since, has split from his wife and now wants to have a family with his new girlfriend, Amber Nicholas.