An Italian teacher working in the North African country of Eritrea has been deported for his sexuality.

The International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA) reported that Paolo Mannina was working as a literature professor in an Italian school located in the capital city of Asmara.

Authorities reportedly forced the professor from his job and made him leave the country without offering an official explanation.

LGBT rights activists in China are launching a campaign to increase transgender visibility.

An event on Friday 17 May (IDAHO - International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia) called lgbT - Increasing Transgender Visibility in China aims to spread awareness about trans issues.

'Chinese society is currently still largely unaware of the plight of transgendered people in China, who face stigma and discrimination on a daily basis,' said a statement from event organizers Queer Comrades,

Still grieving the loss of her mother, Carla Hale was fired from her job as a high school physical education teacher - after 19 years - because the name of her lesbian partner had appeared in her mother's obituary.

But she is fighting her dismissal from Bishop Watterson High School in Columbus, Ohio, and has tremendous public support from students, former students, parents and even the mayor of Columbus.

Michelle Bachelet has reaffirmed her support for same-sex marriage in Chile as she runs for president for the second time.

In an interview Sunday with Televisión Nacional de Chile (TVN), Bachelet was asked: ‘In your previous campaign, you promised equal rights for homosexuals but you did not talk about gay marriage.

‘Now, eight years later, same-sex marriage, yes or no?’

Rick Santorum lashed out today at officials at Grosse Pointe High School in Michigan for initially canceling a scheduled speech of his because he did not provide them with an advance copy.

Santorum, a former US senator from Pennsylvania, seemed certain it is due to his well-known opposition to gay marriage.

An HIV-positive Texas university student only wants an apology from the individuals who papered the school with his personal medical records.

Openly gay Kristopher Sharp, who recently announced his plan to run for student body president at the University of Houston-Downtown, was called into the Dean’s office this week where he was shown a flyer calling his candidacy a ‘homosexual agenda’.

The front side of the flyer showed his photo sandwiched between ‘WANT AIDS?’ and ‘DON’T SUPPORT THE Isaac and Kris HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA’.

Equality campaigners in Scotland warned that an anti-gay educational ban repealed in 2000 (called Section 28) could be introduced by 'stealth' as an add on to Scotland's gay marriage bill.

Texas Republican lawmakers have introduced two anti-gay bills, one which would cut funding for schools and universities that have pro LGBT policies for students, faculty, or staff, and another measure allowing discrimination based on religious beliefs.

State representative, Drew Springer filed a bill aiming to reduce a school district’s healthcare funding by 7.5 percent if they offer domestic partner benefits to anyone other than an employee or a dependent of an employee.

A Utah school banned, then eventually announced it would allow same-sex singing Valentines today (14 February).

Cooper Hills High students were handed fliers last week about the school’s annual choir fundraiser, in which students were asked to make a donation and choir students in turn would deliver love songs to other students.

On the flier, it read ‘Sorry, no same-sex delivery’.

Students, parents and others were furious and sent protests to school administration saying it was singling out and discriminating against gay students.

Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender teens face less bullying as they get older, a study has shown.

The study of 8,700 English students, carried out by The University of Illinois and Brunel University in London, says homophobic bullying against young people declines as they get older and leave school.

Ian Rivers, co-author of the study and Brunel University Professor, says the UK's proposed rise in the school leaving age from 16 to 18 is likely to 'impact rates of bullying'.

The National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association (NLGJA) on Thursday (17 January) announced that its president, Michael Triplett, has died after a battle with cancer.

Triplett, 48, was elected president of the group just last summer. But he had been a member of its leadership team for several years, first as a Washington, DC chapter board member and president and then as a national board member and vice president for print.

Iran’s state-owned English-language news network has published an article claiming the US is being run by a ‘Jewish Mafia’ keen to promote homosexuality.

The op-ed in the ‘Viewpoints’ section of Press TV’s website, blames ‘Zionists’ for the state of America’s economy and says that won’t improve until they are removed from power.