Looking dapper in a tuxedo, soccer pro Robbie Rogers greeted the crowd at the 2013 Voice Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday (19 May) and thanked them for their support which he said inspired him to return to his sport.

Rogers, 25, announced his retirement in February when he came out publicly as a gay man. But in recent weeks, he has been practicing with Major League Soccer's Los Angeles Galaxy.

Rogers spoke with Gay Star News about possible return which, at this point, is a bit out of his hands.

Grammy-nominated singer Adam Lambert was the star attraction at the GLAAD Media Awards in San Francisco over the weekend where Spice Girls member Mel B presented him with the Davidson/Valentini Award.

'We are right in the middle of two generations with two different perspectives but one common thread – love,' Lambert told the crowd at the Hilton Hotel in Union Square.

'With all the differences of opinion both within the LGBT community and elsewhere, the best we can do is to keep it real and to spread a message of acceptance.'

There are a lot of sound reasons to critique Keynesian economics, but a reason that its creator was gay – or rather bisexual – shouldn’t be one of them.

Niall Ferguson, the Laurence A Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University, has sadly, in 2013, just found that out.

Ferguson’s speech to investors and financial analysts at the 10th Annual Altegris Conference in Carlsbad, California should have awed his audience. Instead it shocked and offended them.

The Beverly Hills Hotel has responded to the accusation that they are owned by the anti-gay government of Brunei.

'There are dozens of countries with laws not as progressive as the United States or the state of California, and extreme conservative religious and rigid forms of law exist in many nations around the world,' said a statement from Leslie Lefkowitz, spokesperson for the Beverly Hills Hotel and Hotel Bel-Air.

Forget LA – for a certain type of traveller, San Francisco IS California. And by ‘certain type of traveller’, we don’t just mean the gay ones. Consider the top three activities on any respectable San Francisco to-do list: they aren't exactly sexuality-specific.

In video released Wednesday (1 May), Jane Fonda reflects warmly on her friendship with slain gay rights activist Harvey Milk.

Fonda, speaking at the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center's Conversations With Coco event, worked with Milk in 1978 to fight the Briggs Initiative, a ballot measure seeking to ban gay teachers in California.

'We were friends,' Fonda told drag performer Coco Peru. 'He was the most wonderful, loveable.'

She added that Milk had a 'huge generous heart (and) spirit.'

A union on the other side of the world has taken on the fight of LGBT activists in Asia who were excluded from a meeting in Brunei last week.

US-based hospitality union Unite Here were alerted to the exclusion of LGBT groups from an ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) conference by a Gay Star News report.

Head football coach at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has spoken out in support of gay sports players.

Coach Jim Mora has appeared in a video filmed by the You Can Play project to raise awareness of changing attitudes to LGBT players in sport. The project’s simple message for gay sportspeople is ‘If you can play, you can play.’

Speaking to Outsports, Mora stated an athlete coming out on his football team and in other sports would be well received. He said: ‘It doesn’t matter to me.

Actress Drew Barrymore is set to host the annual awards for the Gay And Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), a watchdog group that promotes the image of LGBT people in the media.

Barrymore, who in 2010 was honored with GLAAD’s Vanguard Award, will host an evening to honor various branches in media for their representation of the LGBT community.

Grammy Award-winning singer Kelly Rowland will perform at the awards for guests to include Leonardo DiCaprio, Betty White, Chris Evans, Charlize Theron, Jennifer Lawrence, Matt Bomer and Naya Rivera to name a few.

The Republican National Committee today voted to reaffirm the party's opposition to gay marriage during a three-day meeting in Los Angeles.

The vote comes as public opinion polls show more than half of Americans support marriage equality. It also comes as the US Supreme Court is deciding whether or not the Defense of Marriage Act and California's Proposition 8 are constitutional.

Meeting at Loews Hollywood Hotel, party leaders unanimously approved 12 resolutions in all, including one affirming that marriage is 'a union between one man and one woman.'

According to her the US Supreme Court should uphold the ban on marriage equality, as being gay is ‘a changeable behavior’ which if promoted will put children at risk.

Linda Harvey alleged that ‘all American children’ are ‘potential victims of this nonsense’ (i.e. gay marriage) as it ‘will yield more disease, more anxiety, depression, more teen angst in general’.