In response to Vietnam marching ahead of other Asian nations towards legalizing same-sex marriage, a gay Vietnamese-Canadian fashion design lecturer who lives in Ho Chi Minh City said that the country is not ready for marriage equality.

Legalizing gay marriage would not make Vietnam '"cool" when it has failed to acknowledge other gay rights issues', Valentine Vu writes in an editorial for Tuoitre News.

American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis has written a tirade against activist group GLAAD and criticized the establishment's response to the coming-out of basketball player Jason Collins.

France was a nation of rioting and revelry as the country became the 14^th in the world to legalize gay marriage yesterday (23 April).

As the National Assembly passed the final vote, protest marches turned violent.

Stones, bottles and iron bars rained down on riot police units brought in to protect the Parisian parliament. They responded by firing tear gas at the protesters, and made 12 arrests.

‘If some people think that it’s over, we’ll show them that it is not finished,’ anti-gay leader Frigide Barjot told the crowd.

Gay rights advocates from LGBT United and the Sexual and Health Rights of Marginalized Communities Coalition groups were brutally attacked in Bitola, Macedonia.

The assault happened on Saturday (20 April) and came shortly after members of the groups marched through Sirok Sokak Street carrying banners and posting posters displaying messages about the human rights of LGBT people as well a rainbow flag.

The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, has promised to lead a global campaign for LGBT rights.

And he has told governments around the world that they have a ‘legal duty’ to protect gay and trans people and that ‘culture, tradition or religion’ could not be used as an excuse for failing to do so.

His comments in a video message to the Oslo Conference on Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity yesterday (15 April) were not his first remarks on sexual orientation or gender identity – but were the strongest-worded.

A Zambian LGBT rights activist has been arrested by police directly after he appeared on television to discuss gay rights, and authorities even tried to stop him speaking mid-broadcast.

Paul Kasonkomona had been speaking on Zambia’s MUVI television channel but was snatched by police as soon as he left the building, with police charging him with ‘inciting the public to take part in indecent activities.’

Kasonkomona had been attempting to leave in a vehicle with colleagues, including his lawyer, but was removed from the car for interrogation.

Sometimes you find yourself in unexpected conversations.

I was sitting in a frozen yoghurt shop in the old city of Luxembourg, listening to an animated discussion in Luxembourgish, trying to understand the different gay adoption scenarios currently being considered by the country’s legislators.

Knowing that KPMG was an inclusive employer was an important consideration for me when I applied to its graduate program. I’d come out to friends and family a couple of years before and realised I didn’t really fancy going back into the closet to present an untrue picture of who I am.

So I did a bit of research on the internet before I submitted my application form. I found out the firm had a senior, openly gay, woman on its board, Ashley Steel, and a network for its lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees and supporters, Breathe. It was a good start.

Marco Feliciano, Brazil’s human rights boss, warned that gender equality could undermine women’s roles as mothers and turn society ‘gay’.

Congressman Feliciano, the newly elected chair of Brazil’s House of Representatives Committee on Human Rights and Minorities (CDHM), was quoted yesterday (20 March) in O Globo, as making this statement in a recently published book.

Ultimate Fighting Championship light-heavyweight fighter Rashad ‘Suga’ Evans has gone public with his support for LGBT equality and the right of same-sex couples to marry.

Evans, who was narrowly defeated by Antonia Rogerio Noguera at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vagas in UFC 156 on February 2, made his support known by signing onto a legal brief to the US Supreme Court in support of marriage equality that had been put forward by NFL players Chris Kluwe and Brendon Ayanbadejo.

Brazil's House of Representatives has elected a renowned racist and homophobic deputy and evangelical pastor, Marco Feliciano, to chair the house Committee on Human Rights and Minorities (CDHM) today.

The election should have taken place yesterday (6 March), but the session was adjourned due to uproar caused by Feliciano's nomination.

Feliciano was nominated and elected by his extreme right-wing Social Christian Party (PSC), with 11 of the 12 votes of the members of the CDHM.

Sandrine Soppo, chair of the Association of Cameroon Roman Catholic Jurists (AJCC) said that gay rights are not a question of human rights but of an affront to human dignity.

Soppo made these comments during a conference on homosexuality, held last weekend in Douala, the country's largest city.

She was also joined by other prominent clerics, including the Bishop of Douala who said that homosexuality is a crime against nature.