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May 13, 2013
Nintendo disables same-sex marriage avatar in popular game

Nintendo creates an update to disable ‘human relations that have become strange’ in 3DS game Tomodachi Collection: New Life

Nintendo’s Japanese Tomodachi Collection: New Life for 3DS has disabled it’s ‘bug’ that allows same-sex marriage between male Miis.  

The company has released a statement saying that anyone experiencing ‘human relations that have become strange’ should update the program.

May 9, 2013
Nintendo game bug allows male characters to enter gay marriage but not women

Fans of the Nintendo DS game have celebrated the bug by posting photos of their gay avatar couples online

A glitch in the new video game Tomodachi Collection: New Life allows male avatars to marry each other and have children.

But sadly female characters are left out because the glitch in the system doesn't exist for them.

New Life is a life simulation game for the Nintendo DS, released in Japan on 28 April. It was the best selling game during its release week selling over 400,000 copies.

April 2, 2013
Ellen DeGeneres to headline long-awaited Finding Nemo sequel for Pixar-Disney

Finding Dory to focus on her friendly but forgetful blue tang fish character

Ellen DeGeneres has long had a running gag about the lack of a sequel to the 2003 animated smash Finding Nemo.

But  now it's no longer a joke.

The comedienne announced on her daytime talk show today that Disney-Pixar is making that sequel and it focuses on her character of Dory, a friendly but forgetful blue tang fish.

'I guess I've mentioned it on the show once or twice,' DeGeneres joked as she showed various past clips of her complaining about the lack of a sequel to Nemo which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.

April 2, 2013
Nearly 3 million Facebook users turned red for gay marriage

Millions of people changed their profile pic in favor of a version promoting the Human Rights Campaign for equal marriage

Millions of Facebook users turned their profile pictures for marriage equality last week, a Facebook report has found.

Roughly 2.7 million people in the US switched their main pics to the Human Rights Campaign image of a pink-on-red equal sign.

Users, as it is the internet, changed their profile photos to various versions of this image, some featuring Lion King characters, Star Wars storm-troopers and even Gay Star News ducks.

February 25, 2013
'Blackmailed' gay man jailed for stealing £170k

British man says he had to steal thousands of pounds for a wife who discovered his gay chatline habit

A British gay man who claims he was being blackmailed by his wife has gone to jail for stealing thousands from his employer.

Christopher Brown, 55, will be jailed for two years, and must pay £4800  ($7300, €5500) in costs.

The theft was discovered after an internal audit at the luxury goods company Dawson's, where Brown is employed.

Brown paid 56 company checks into his bank account, and claims he faced was blackmailed by his wife after she discovered he was using gay chatlines.

February 4, 2013
The super gran who walked out of church when her pastor attacked a gay teen

A Reddit user posted a story of how his grandmother walked out of her church in the US after a pastor's anti-LGBT sermon.

A proud grandson has described how his grandmother walked out of her church after an anti-LGBT sermon.

The American Reddit user, registered as BMMiller10, posted on the site that his grandmother had changed her conservative attitudes to homosexuality after he came out to her the previous year.

And after her pastor singled out another gay teenager in front of an entire congregation, promising to 'address the problem of homosexuality', she apologized to the teen and walked out.

December 4, 2012
NYPD come out in force with It Gets Better video

The New York Police Department cops tell gay kids It Gets Better in video for the Trevor Project

New York police have spoken about the difficulties they had growing up and coming out gay, but assured other kids in the same position, It Gets Better.

The NYPD joined countless vloggers and public figures like Pixar, Disney, President Obama and Adam Lambert who have recorded an It Gets Better video for The Trevor Project.

The project founded in 1998 aims to provide Crisis intervention and suicide prevention for LGBT teens whilst the video series reminds teens of the light at the end of the tunnel.

September 12, 2012
Bisexual no longer dirty word on Google

Internet search engine giant removes 'bisexual' from list of banned words after pressure from US groups

Search engine Google has removed 'bisexual' from its list of words it previously only associated with pornography.

The decision was made after pressure from bisexual community and campaign groups whose rankings on the website fell as a result of being blacklisted by the internet giant's Auto Complete and Instant Search functions.

'It’s not every day one of the biggest companies in the world changes its mind, but we are thankful that Google now sees bisexual people just like everyone else,' said Faith Cheltenham, president of the BiNet USA organization.

April 26, 2012
Hulu announces new LGBT channel for television and film

Will help users locate content more efficiently on Internet entertaiment site

Hulu is making it easier for visitors to find LGBT films and television shows on the popular internet entertainment site by giving them their own separate category heading for the first time.

Such acclaimed films as Latter Days, A Marine Story, The Crying Game, Velvet Goldmine, Come Undone and the documentary The Times of Harvey Milk are available in the section as well as classic television fare including Queer as Folk, Tales of the City and The Big Gay Sketch Show.

April 25, 2012
Gay presidential candidate has video pulled from YouTube

Fred Karger's ad, which features two men kissing at the end, has been reposted on site with a parental warning

Mitt Romney has the Republican nomination for president all but sewn up but that hasn't stopped Fred Karger from pushing on with his long-shot candidacy leading up to the June 5 primary in his home state of California.

Karger, who proclaims himself as the first openly gay candidate of either major political party to run for President, has gotten the kind of publicity that money can't buy in recent days for his 'Sexy Frisbee' campaign video.