President Barack Obama raised just shy of $15 million on Thursday (10 June) at a star-studded dinner at actor George Clooney's Los Angeles home.

At the event, Obama made his first public remarks about his public endorsement of gay marriage since his original comments in an interview with ABC News.

With the birth of Twitter and the death of discretion, an increasing number of public figures are candid about their anti-gay sentiments, and are paying for it.

Social media and consumer-driven content means that anything said online gets heard around the world in a matter of mouse clicks.

When homophobic and transphobic remarks are made, and apologies ensue, is it a genuine about-face or a lame attempt at lip service?

She is, at the same time, one of the most straight American celebrities and one of the most powerful gay icons. Barbra Streisand turns 70 today. And millions of fans are celebrating the event.

‘Hello gorgeous’ are the first words pronounced by Streisand in the romantic musical film Funny Girl (1968). After winning the Academy Award for Best Actress, Streisand’s first comment when handed the Oscar statuette was ‘Hello, gorgeous'.

US Congresswoman Mary Bono Mack had already given a very moving tribute to stepson Chaz Bono at the GLAAD Media Awards in Los Angeles on Saturday (21 April).

She talked about how Chaz 'meant the world' to his dad, the late Sonny Bono, who she said was 'watching from heaven.'

'Chaz had the courage to follow his heart and his convictions and that's what true leaders do,' Bono Mack said.

Then, after a video presentation about Chaz, a woman wearing a dramatic afro wig  a wig came onto the stage unannounced.

For eight years on the NBC sitcom Will & Grace, Sean Hayes played the hilarious gay character of Jack McFarland to such perfection that he won an Emmy and was nominated for six others.

During the show's long run, Hayes declined to discuss the fact that in real life, he is also gay. But that changed two years ago when in an interview with The Advocate, he talked about being gay and insisted that he had never tried to hide that fact.

With the Motion Picture Association of America refusing to budge on the R rating it has slapped on the documentary Bully, the film's distributor announced Monday (26 March) that it would release the movie unrated.

The film is about the epidemic of bullying in schools and got the R rating because of profanities some of the kids use in the movie.

Pop legend Madonna has said that if she becomes president of the United States, legalising gay marriage will be one of her first ports of call.

Speaking in a live Facebook Q&A session with Jimmy Fallon, the Give Me All Your Luvin' singer was asked 'If you were the president of the united states what are the three things you would you do first as a priority?'

St. Petersburg city assemblyman Vitaly Milanov, the author of anti-gay law that just went into effect, says he will attend Madonna's concert in the Russian city this summer to see if she follows through with her vow to speak out for the gay community.

The ‘homosexual propaganda’ law in the city went into effect on last Saturday and there have been calls for the singer to cancel her concert there.

To celebrate the release of Madonna's hotly anticipated new album MDNA, on 26 March, two fans are creating a special tribute video for the queen of pop.

Joey Faye and Kevin Wethington are celebrating the gay icon's comeback with a compilation of her greatest hits.

But to make it extra special, the pair are looking for die-hard Madge fans to contribute by sending them a photo of what the Material Girl means to them.

Katy Butler says she found out what it's like to be bullied after she came out as a lesbian while she was in middle school.

That knowledge is what has driven this 17-year-old from Michigan to take a stand against the Motion Picture Association of America when it slapped an R rating on the documentary Bully.

As Dustin Lance Black celebrates the success of last weekend's benefit performance of his play 8 in Los Angeles, the Oscar-winning writer and LGBT activist is thinking of his older brother, Marcus, who died in January from cancer.

Black made an arduous road trip from Michigan to Virginia with his brother in December so they could spend Christmas with their mother. They arrived at her house on Christmas Eve morning after traveling through Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Maryland. 

Tom Hanks son could take some lessons from Ewan McGregor on how a straight guy should deal with other men finding him attractive.

Rather than sending out a tweet reiterating his sexuality - as Chet Haze did this week - McGregor had a good time discussing the mad crush comedian Louis CK has on him.