A US federal court has awarded a gay man $13.2 million after it recognized that he had been wrongfully imprisoned for a murder he did not commit.

David Ayers, now 56, was accused of murder by the Cleveland Police Department after Dorothy Brown, a 76 year old public housing resident, was found dead in 1999.

Ayers had for eight years been employed as a security officer by the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority which housed Brown before he was accused of her murder after he was the last known person to have seen her alive.

Archers, fencers and wheelchair rugby players are hoping to take part in the Gay Games in 2018 after the event’s governing body approved their sports.

The Federation of Gay Games (FGG) has also agreed to a boxing tournament, pétanque and roller derby but turned their nose up at a request to include polo.

So while boxing is considered a knock-out idea, archery hit the target and they decided wheelchair rugby was wheely good, anyone hoping to see Prince Harry astride a stallion at a Gay Games anytime soon will definitely be disappointed.

Josh Mandel's anti-gay views so upset some of his relatives that they took out a newspaper ad denouncing him in the days leading up to the vote Tuesday (6 November) for US senator from Ohio.

In the end, voters weren't so impressed with the 35-year-old Republican candidate either as he went down in defeat to incumbent Democrat Sherrod Brown.

Planning holidays is definitely one of my top three hobbies, so I was excited to learn that the ninth Gay Games had been awarded to the US city of Cleveland in the state of Ohio.

Excited or intrigued? To be honest Cleveland hasn't really been featuring in my list of holiday hotspots (making lists is also one of my top three hobbies), so I caught up with Tom Nobbe - executive director of the 2014 Gay Games - to get the low-down on Cleveland.

The world of LGBT sport is increasingly busy, with an ever-growing number of national and international single and multi-sport tournaments on offer.

One of the key drivers for this is the tourism value that can be created by an LGBT sports tournament, and major cities around the world are actively supporting local clubs and organizations to host events and attract international visitors.

Cleveland radio personality Dominic Dieter apologized on Monday (30 April) for suggesting to a father that he have his daughter raped as a way to make her straight after the man saw the teenager kiss another girl.

Dieter is part of Rover's Morning Glory, a show that airs on WMMS 100.7 FM radio. Dieter told the father on air last Friday: 'You should get one of your friends to screw your daughter straight.'

Dieter said he now understands why people are angry about what he said.