Most people would be embarrassed to admit they had been married nine times. It usually implies a lot of failed relationships. But not for happy couple Kacey and Chwanda who decided to take all their seven children on an ‘I do’ marathon from Illinois to New York to Canada.

Kacey told Out: ‘Chwanda was like, "we gonna get married all them times?" And I’m like, "Yeah!" Once I started, I couldn’t stop: If I’m gonna do something, I’m gonna do it big!’

A lesbian teenager was attacked and beaten by a group of  four teenage boys in the Canadian city of Calgary last week.

The attack, which happened late at night last Thursday (11 April), is being treated by police as a possible hate crime.  

The 17-year-old victim was approached by the group as she was on her way home from a friend’s house, CTV News reports.

Edith Windsor emerged from the US Supreme Court building today to hear a crowd chanting 'Edie! Edie!'

The 83-year-old New York resident was the star attraction in the landmark challenge to the Defense of Marriage Act which was being heard by justices it appears may be ready to strke the law down.

As she stood on the steps of the court, Windsor took the opportunity to tell her story and how a $350,000-plus federal estate tax bill, received after the death of her spouse of 44 years, Thea Clara Spyer, got her to this historic day.

Before gay porn star Wilfred Knight committed suicide earlier this month, he wrote a blog post with the title: 'My partner's life and death and its lesson: US Gay Marriage Must Pass on a Federal Level.'

That partner, an American citizen named Jerry Enriquez, had killed himself two weeks earlier in Canada. The couple had left Oregon to live in Canada because Knight, a French citizen, had a student US visa that had expired.

Canda's supreme court of ruled against anti-gay activist Bill Whatcott saying his flyers amounted to hate speech.

Today's (27 February) ruling came after years of legal wrangling over a case brought against anti-gay activist, Bill Whatcott, by Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission (SHRC), concerning flyers he distributed in 2001 and 2002.

The ruling found that two of the four flyers could be construed as hate speech against gays, and upheld previous damages of $7,500 levied against Whatcott.

A 16-year-old trans teenager from Canada always dreamed of meeting Vancouver Canucks hockey star Cory Schneider, but it always felt like he would never get there.

But for Cory Oskham, his dreams became reality when he met the star and shared the ice with his hero.

On 21 January, the teen and advocate was preparing to give one of his speeches on homophobia and transphobia in schools at the Dare to Stand Out Vancouver conference.

A Canadian judge has decided that a gay couple with a UK civil partnership can be treated as married – and therefore get divorced.

The judgement in Ontario follows legal objections from the Canadian federal Crown.

In 2009 Wayne Hincks and Gerardo Gallardo entered into a civil partnership in London. Both obtained Canadian citizenship after emigrating to Toronto in 2010.

Unlike Canada, British law does not currently allow same-sex couples to marry although civil partnerships allow for similar rights and responsibilities.

International Gay and Lesbian Aquatics (IGLA) is the organization that brings the world’s LGBT aquatics clubs together, sharing information and knowledge as well as staging an annual championships for LGBT competitors in swimming, diving, open water, synchronized swimming, and water polo.

We caught up with Jason Stone, head of the organizing committee for IGLA2013 to take a look at plans for this year’s event which will be held in the US city of Seattle.

Laurier LaPierre, Canada's first openly gay senator, has died aged 83.

The retired politician and host of TV's controversial 'This Hour has Seven Days' was pronounced dead on Monday (17 December), reported the Huffington Post.

LaPierre rose to fame presenting the notorious CBC program which saw him come under fire for interviewing white supremacists and cild-killer Nathan Leopold.

The US Defense of Marriage Act prohibited the Internal Revenue Service from treating Edith Windsor as a surviving spouse after her longtime partner's death in 2009.

Windsor and Thea Spyer had gotten married in Canada two years earlier after 40 years together. But DOMA prevented the US government from recognizing this or any same-sex marriage.

As a result, Windsor was required to pay a $350,000 federal estate tax bill that she would not have had to pay if their marriage had been recognized.

Tolerance in Belgium towards LGBT people has been eroding  in the last three to four years, suggested Elio Di Rupo, the country's Prime Minister.

A court has ordered the ministry of interior of Israel to register a gay couple as divorced after it continually rejected their requests.

Yesterday (2 November) a Ramat Gan family court approved the request of Uzi Even, a former Israeli member of parliament and professor at Tel Aviv University, and Amit Kama, who teaches communications at Max Stern Yezreel Valley College, to order Israel’s ministry of interior to register them as divorced.