The New Yorker magazine’s latest cover features two lesbian moms in honor of Mother’s Day.

The magazine, which featured an illustration of lesbian brides for a June cover last year, this week shows a lesbian couple in the kitchen, enjoying a Mother’s Day card and flowers as their children watch from the background.

Creator of the cover Chris Ware explained the cover on The New Yorker blog.

He wrote: ‘Fortunately, we humans are incessant editors, never happy with the first draft of anything.

The comic book artist due to work on the latest Superman series has decided to quit over the controversy of hiring an anti-gay campaigner to write the stories.

Chris Sprouse, who made the appointment yesterday (5 March), said he ‘wasn’t comfortable’ with the backlash following the appointment of Orson Scott Card.

Superman fans and gay rights groups blasted DC Comics’ decision to hire the Card, author of the Ender’s Game series and has said marriage equality would lead to the end of civilization.

A gay writer has petitioned to author the new Adventures of Superman.

David Gerrold, a self-confessed Superman aficianado, has volunteered on Facebook to write the Superman comic after an online petition to remove a current anti-gay writer has gone viral.

Gerrold wrote: 'I see that you have hired a writer for Superman who has written strongly of his opposition to equal rights for LGBT people. And I see that there is an online petition protesting that move.

The man pretending to be a woman in a bizarre online hoax involving college football star Manti Te'o said he was desperate to end the ruse so he decided to kill his online alter-ego off with cancer.

'I was trying to do everything to end it,' Ronaiah Tuiasosopo told talk show host Dr. Phil McGraw in part one of an interview that aired Thursday (31 January). 'People say it was a cruel joke. Cruel true, joke never.'

A gay aboriginal HIV support and outreach worker was murdered in Alberta, Canada.

Officers found Dolan Badger, 49, at his Edmonton residence on Saturday (12 January) at 7.30am. He had suffered severe injuries.

British writer Neil Gaiman has paid tribute to popular gay web series and comic book Husbands.

The ‘Sandman’ and ‘American Gods’ author has written the introduction for a hardcover graphic novel edition of the digital comic.

Calling it a ‘smart and loving romp through genre’, the web series was written by Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Once Upon A Time’s Jane Espenson and character comic Brad Bell.

The series describes itself as the world’s first marriage equality comedy, set in a fictional America where every state has legalized it.

DC Comics has outed one of its characters as part of the LGBTQI community, but it has a few readers scratching their heads which one they meant.

In this week’s Demon Knights, an ongoing comic set in medieval times, the Shining Knight has seemed to come out as intersex.

Also known as Ystin (pronounced Justin), he says: ‘I think you like one…aspect of who I am. But I’m the other too. I was born this way. I’ve kept saying, whenever anyone asks.

‘I’m not just a man or woman. I’m both.’

One of this year's lesbian X Factor contestants, Jade Ellis, has admitted that she has the hots for one of her UK rivals.

Ellis, 25, revealed that she has a soft spot for MK1's female member Charlie Rundle despite having a long-term girlfriend, Heba Elgamel.

The mother of six-year-old Caiden said: 'Well, Charlie has a serious partner too, but I've been doing a little flirting with her.

'Although it's really only been a little bit of fun.'

From Gus & Waldo to the X-Man Northstar, Milan is going to celebrate ‘gay’ comics with a brand new exhibiton starting next Friday (7 September) until 23 September at the Museo del Fumetto, the comics museum.

Organized by university association Gaystatale and the leading LGBT Italian association Arcigay, the exhibition will be launched with a lecture by Massimo Fenati, author of Gus & Waldo, a comic about two gay penguins popular in Britain and Italy.

DC Comics has pledged to add more homosexual characters after the revelation Green Lantern Alan Scott is gay.

The new out and proud superhero will first appear in next week’s issue of Earth 2 published on 7 June.

But he will not be last, as writer James Robinson told gay website The Advocate.

Superheroes Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman could be coming out of the closet in a forthcoming issue, according to their creators.

DC Comics co-publisher Dan DiDio announced at the Kapow Comic Convention in London on Sunday (20 May) that a character who was previously straight will now be 'one of our most prominent gay characters.

The news comes as a surprise to fans of some of the world's best loved superheroes, as DiDio had previously said it would not change the sexuality of its characters but would introduce more LGBT ones.