Gay pop singer George Michael has been involved in a car crash on Britain’s M1.

An air ambulance, and other medics, were called to the incident which happened at 5.50pm yesterday (16 May) near the motorway’s (freeway) junction with the M25, the main ring-road around London.

Michael, 49, was a passenger in the car.

A statement from his publicist sent to GSN and other media said: ‘George Michael was a passenger in a vehicle involved in a traffic accident yesterday evening, no third party was involved.

A gay Scottish gangster has claimed the jury who convicted him, ‘Googled’ him during the trial. If true, they would themselves be guilty of contempt of court.

Frank Carberry was convicted on 17 May 2006 of indecently assaulting three young men and is currently serving in Dumfries prison in Scotland.

Scotland’s Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC) says Googling the defendant would make the jury biased.

Two men have been found guilty of sexual assault and rape of a 14-year-old boy in a Manchester toilet.

Alex Wilson-Fletcher, 41, and Abdelkader El-Janabi, 55, attacked the boy in a British department store in June last year.

The teen had told police he was marched by two men into a Debenhams where he was assaulted in the bathroom.

In court, the boy said the pair had approached in the Arndale Centre when El-Janabi grabbed his arm and told him to follow him, the BBC reports.

A man jailed for the murder of a Brooklyn teen in 2011 claims he was ordered to commit the murder by a lesbian gang leader.

Djavan Perry was sentenced last week to 22 years in jail for shooting dead an 18-year-old in the hallway of a Brooklyn apartment block.

Police were able to obtain CCTV footage of him shooting his victim Andre Pitts multiple times on April 17 2011. 

Perry claims he was told to kill the teenager by Jehen Mantis Attiyah, a member of the notorious Bloods street gang, in revenge for sleeping with her ex.

A jury in Christchurch, New Zealand has found 28-year-old Gavin Gosnell guilty of murdering gay teenager Hayden Miles.

There were cheers in the High Court and Miles' mother burst into tears when the verdict was read out, TVNZ reports.

'We want to remember Hayden for who he was, not what happened to him on that horrific night,' said Jacqui Miles outside the court.

An activist has said British authorities are sanctioning the murder of trans people.

Jane Fae, a contributor to national newspapers and the LGBT media, has warned a recent sentencing of a trans man could be a slippery slope.

On 9 April, Chris Wilson was sentenced after pleading guilty to two counts of ‘obtaining sexual identity by fraud’.

A man was sentenced to three years probation and 240 hours community service for not telling his girlfriend he was transgender before sex.

Chris Wilson, 25, was sentenced after pleading guilty to two counts of ‘obtaining sexual intimacy by fraud’.

Instead of facing jail and being on the sex offender’s register for life, Wilson will be on it for three years.

Lisa Winters, former head of the Bronx LGBT Pride Center in New York has been jailed for embezzling $338,000 (€263,000) from her organization.

Website Queerty reports Winters pleaded guilty to her crime at the Bronx Supreme Court.

She said that she used the money to hire a dog walker and pay for a trip with her wife, Eileen Scroggins, to South Africa.

A day after the US Supreme Court heard arguments challenging the Defense of Marriage Act, President Barack Obama spoke out about why he believes the federal gay marriage ban is unfair.

'I think not only is it right and fair but also consistent with our Constitution to recognize same-sex couples,' Obama said Thursday (28 March) in an interview with the Spanish language network Telemundo.

The justices of the US Supreme Court raised major doubts today about the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act during its second hearing in two days on gay marriage.

Journalists who watched the proceedings immediately began tweeting that it appears that DOMA, signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1996, has the five votes needed to be struck down.

A British man who killed a gay teen by setting him on fire during his 18th birthday will be jailed for three and a half years.

Steven Simpson, who had Asperger’s syndrome, a speech impairment and epilepsy, was covered in self-tanning oil and set alight in the early hours of 23 June last year.

Jordan Sheard, 20, was sentenced at Sheffield Crown Court after pleading guilty to manslaughter.

A judge heard how as Simpson became more drunk, homophobic insults were scrawled on his arm and stomach, told to strip to his boxers and encouraged to dance around.

A federal appeals court invalidated Virginia’s law prohibiting sodomy (anal and oral sex) ruling that is unconstitutional.

The three-judge panel of the 4th US circuit court of appeals ruled yesterday (12 March) that the law against oral and anal sex violates the constitution’s due process clause.