Marriage is not about me, me, me but a bond between two people who are in love and want to show the world their commitment to each other.

This is a something the opponents of gay marriage – religious or otherwise – do not seem to grasp. It’s why gay marriage is important and necessary, so we can be equal to our heterosexual friends and companions.

One of Malaysia’s top politicians has warned Muslims to be wary about the spread of homosexuality following the establishment of an LGBT friendly mosque in France.

Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Mashitah Ibrahim said homosexuality was a major transgression in Islam and what was being practiced in Europe should not be emulated in Malaysia.

Gay showbiz reporter and television host Richard Arnold has survived the Strictly Come Dancing dance-off for the second time tonight (4 November).

Filmed yesterday, Arnold and his professional partner Erin Boag won a dance-off against actor Colin Salmon and Kristina Rihanoff in the British reality show results.

Arnold forgot his foxtrot when he performed it the first time on Saturday.

‘When you say dance again, it’ll really be the first time,’ he said before dancing in the results show. ‘It’s very tough going out there again. ‘

British comedian David Walliams claims X Factor creator Simon Cowell will never shake off rumors that he is gay.

The star worked with the 53-year-old music mogul as a judge on TV show Britain's Got Talent and the pair have since become friends.

'I work with Simon Cowell and a lot of people say he’s gay,' Walliams said, reported The Daily Star.

'It will follow him until the day he dies, but what’s the point of worrying about it?'

Ukraine is considering calls for SpongeBob and other 'gay' children's TV characters to be banned.

The Eastern European country's National Expert Commission for Protecting Public Morality is considering a report published on Catholic website 'Family Under the Protection of the Holy Virgin' that claims that the popular children’s TV show promotoes homosexuality and is damaging to children.

The first British X Factor winner wishes a Daily Mail columnist had HIV.

Steve Brookstein, who won the first X Factor series in 2004, tweeted today: ‘All those people with HIV and not one of them is called Dan Wootton.'

Wootton is an openly gay entertainment commentator from New Zealand, often appearing on Sky News and Xtra Factor as well as having a column in right-wing tabloid newspaper the Daily Mail.

Doctor Who actress Billie Piper will play a lesbian in an upcoming BBC drama called True Love.

The actress, also known for her teenage pop career, will play a teacher having a fling with one of her students.

Her 16-year-old partner will be played by Kaya Scodelario, known to many for playing Effy in E4 teen drama Skins.

The pair will be shown kissing and sharing a bed in multiple scenes of the upcoming series.

Comedy duo Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie will reunite after 13 years for CGI animated film The Canterville Ghost, it was announced at the Cannes Film Festival.

Co-produced by the studio behind animated hits Gnomeo and Juliet and 9, Arch Productions and Fry’s own company, Sprout Productions, the film is a short story written by gay poet and playwright Oscar Wilde and was first published in 1887.

The new series of BBC drama Upstairs Downstairs will feature a steamy lesbian love affair.

Silent Witness actress Emilia Fox and buxom Dr Who star Alex Kingston will play the lovers, Lady Portia Alresford and Sir Hallam Holland’s aunt Blanche.

Despite initially trying to keep the relationship under wraps for fear of a scandal, the truth is eventually revealed and the pair find a surprising ally.

Writer Heidi Thomas revealed the saucy storyline at a screening of the season premiere.

No one would ever compare Ian Gallagher, the gay teen on the Showtime series Shameless, with the gay characters on Glee.

This series takes place far away from a choir room as it follows the life of Frank Gallagher (played by William H. Macy), a single father of six children who is drunk most of the time.

His kids learn to take care of themselves including the third-oldest, Ian, who is tough, street smart and quite sexually active.

A Dalek used in the classic series of Doctor Who is expected to go for £8,000 at auction this week - even though it is only was one foot tall.

The model metallic monster, which featured in the 1985 Colin Baker story Revelation of the Daleks, was built for a scene in which it was exterminated. The prop was destroyed on screen using TV pixilation, so was undamaged. It will go under the hammer in California on Thursday (15 December).