Montenegro will push for rights for gay and lesbian couples and hold its first gay pride, the deputy prime minister has promised.

Dusko Markovic, deputy prime minister of Montenegro who has particular responsibility for human rights, was speaking at the Out on the Street summit on LGBT global workplace rights in London today (13 November).

While he stopped short of promising marriage equality or even civil partnerships, he did pledge to improve the legal status of same-sex couples, Gay Star News can reveal.

British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has pulled a draft speech in which he branded opponents of gay marriage ‘bigots’, claims Sky News.

The Liberal Democrat Party leader was expected to make the speech at a reception this evening (11 September).

Sky News says the earlier draft released by officials said: ‘Continued trouble in the economy gives the bigots a stick to beat us with, as they demand we “postpone” the equalities agenda in order to deal with “the things people really care about”.’

'Some people are gay. Get on with it!' is the new message from Stonewall to the UK government as Britain awaits same-sex marriage equality.

The charity, the country's leading lesbian, gay and bisexual campaign organization, had previously seen its messaging 'Some people are gay. Get over it!' go viral online and be turned into a series of products.

Now the subtly new message emphasizes that the time is right now to go ahead and give gay and lesbian couples the same marriage rights as straight people.

British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has told Gay Star News he is confident of getting his Conservative coalition partners to back the idea of same-sex couples being able to marry in churches.

The Liberal Democrat leader wants religious bodies who wish to, like the Quakers and Liberal Judaism, to be able to marry gay and lesbian couples.

And, he told GSN in an interview conducted on World Pride day (7 July) and published today, he believes he can persuade the rest of the government to back the idea.

Ireland's deputy prime minister Eamon Gilmore has publicly backed gay marriage, calling it the 'civil rights issue of this generation'.

The Tánaiste has joined world leaders such as Barack Obama in calling for same-sex marriage to be recognized and said the issue would be discussed by the government during Constitutional Convention talks later this year.

Speaking in Dublin, he also congratulated organizers of the city's gay pride celebrations, which saw 30,000 take part in the main parade on Saturday (30 June).

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has said marriage equality is not a matter of ‘if’ in the latest Out4Marriage video.

As leader of the Liberal Democrats, he is the most senior politician to make a video stating his support. Clegg is also the first to speak out for equal marriage since the 12-week consultation ended last Thursday.

He says despite provoking a heated debate, the proposals to legalize civil marriages for gay couples were about ‘when and how’ and not ‘a matter of if’.

Britain's Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, has signed the petition showing his support for equal gay marriage.

The Coalition for Equal Marriage (C4EM) petition was set up in response to religious hate groups who are trying to block same-sex marriage equality in Britain.

Clegg's Liberal Democrat party has long backed gay marriage and is part of the coalition government which has promised to legalize same-sex civil marriage by 2015 at the latest.

The Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia told a national counseling conference yesterday that the profession was needed to 'curb' the 'spread' of LGBT groups.