The theme of this year's LGBT 'freedom to love' event in Singapore, Pink Dot, is 'home', as shown in the campaign video launched yesterday.

The video shows LGBT people searching for acceptance - an older gay man is prevented from visiting his partner in hospital, a transgender teen is bullied at school and a young woman's parents shut-down communication when they find out about her same-sex relationship.

The film ends with at Pink Dot, where LGBT people and allies have gathered for one day a year over the last five years to show their support by wearing pink.

When James Dale was 19, he came out as a gay man in a newspaper article not knowing it would mean the end of his days as part of the Boy Scouts of America.

'The Boy Scouts saw that and they expelled me, severed my 12 year association with (the organization,' Dale said in interview released Wednesday (23 May) by GLAAD.

Dale is speaking out a day before the BSA's national board is due to vote on a proposed policy change that would no longer ban gay members but would still prevent gay adults from participating in any way.

Gay couples have not been included on a new bill offering US citizenship to immigrants living across the country.

The Border Security, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Modernization Act was introduced on 17 April offering full citizen rights to illegals who have lived in the US before 31 December 2011.

The White House and NASA are to honor America's first woman in space and first know LGBT astronaut, Sally Ride, by awarding her a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom.

President Barack Obama announced on Monday Ride will be posthumously awarded America's highest civilian honor during a White House ceremony later this year.

Mark Carson was remembered tonight (20 May) at the corner where he was murdered.

LGBT activists and allies held a San Francisco rally to mark the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia (IDAHO) by declaring Bradley Manning the People's Grand Marshal of city’s Pride.

Manning is the gay U.S. Army Private accused of divulging a massive amount of government documents to WikiLeaks and has been spending nearly three years in jail without trial.

The culture of the Police Service in Britain is developing into one where you can be as comfortable at work as you are at home – that is the strategic aim. It is worth noting that there are eight local police forces listed in the Stonewall Top 100 Index of gay-friendly employers and LGBT officers are included in the majority of UK police forces. It hasn’t always been this way.

Over 100,000 people from nations including Canada, France, UK, USA, Netherlands, Germany and Japan, say they still suffer from discrimination and harassment at home and in work.

The LGBT 2020 Homophobia Report from Out Now Global says homophobia is still endemic – even where gay marriage has been accepted.

The early results for the Philippines' midterm elections suggest that Ang Ladlad, the world's only LGBT political party, has failed to win a seat in congress.

Official election results report that the party got 75,913 votes, only 0.37% of the vote. A party needs at least 2% (570,112 votes at this election) of the vote to get a seat under the Philippines' partylist system.

Eight other parties are reported to have got enough votes to secure seats.

US Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia were requested do the right thing by LGBT families at last night's (11 May) GLAAD Media Awards, held in San Francisco.

Steve Warren, member of GLAAD's board of directors, made a special appeal to the well known conservative judges. In his speech, he noted that Justice Thomas' marriage, before 1967, was illegal in a number of states.

New York’s 28^th Annual AIDS Walk will take place Sunday 19 May.

The 10k walk will see over 45,000 people participate, starting and ending in the city's Central Park.

Special guests will be headlining and promoting the cause, including Smash’s Megan Hilty, Glee’s Alex Newell, Ugly Betty’s Micheal Urie and Martha Wash singing You’ll Never Walk Alone.

To date the sponsored walk has raised $2,898,109 (£1,892,902, €2,233,559) all of which goes to Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC) and more that 40 other local AIDS service organizations.

The US House of Representatives has issued its first ever spousal ID to the same-sex partner of a member of Congress.

Democratic Representative Mark Pocan’s husband Philip Frank received the ID on April 26 after the House of Representatives Sergeant At Arms informed Pocan that his husband was now eligible to receive a spousal ID.

Previously Philip Frank had had to use a ‘designee’ ID which merely recognized him as a guest of Pocan’s in the House of Representatives.