David Bowie’s celebrated refrain 'We can be heroes, just for one day' is the key message behind the London Gay Men’s Chorus (LGMC) new concert.

Honouring the people who have contributed to bettering the everyday lives of the LGBT community, the aptly titled Heroes will be performed at Cadogan Hall in the UK capital from the 24 to 25 May.

Daniel Radcliffe has revealed he was given ‘step-by-step instructions’ in filming a gay sex scene.

The ‘Harry Potter’ actor will play famed American poet Allen Ginsberg in Kill Your Darlings.

Speaking to Graham Norton on BBC1, he said: ‘I was doing a gay sex scene and the director (John Krokidas) was giving step-by-step instructions.

‘And the favorite note I have ever had was when we were kissing and the director shouted, “Not like that. Crazy sex kissing!”

There are a lot of sound reasons to critique Keynesian economics, but a reason that its creator was gay – or rather bisexual – shouldn’t be one of them.

Niall Ferguson, the Laurence A Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University, has sadly, in 2013, just found that out.

Ferguson’s speech to investors and financial analysts at the 10th Annual Altegris Conference in Carlsbad, California should have awed his audience. Instead it shocked and offended them.

A Harvard professor, who had to apologize for saying economist John Maynard Keynes helped cause the recession because he was gay, has previously accused him of being biased at Versailles because he had a crush on a German diplomat.

Noted author and Harvard University history professor Niall Ferguson offered an apology for his recent comments about economist John Maynard Keynes.

'My colleagues, students, and friends – straight and gay – have every right to be disappointed in me, as I am in myself,' Ferguson wrote today (4 April) on his website. 'To them, and to everyone who heard my remarks at the conference or has read them since, I deeply and unreservedly apologize.'

Gay British actor Rupert Everett is in trouble for accidentally using some 'fruity language' on daytime television yesterday (1 May).

The ‘Hysteria’ actor was appearing as a guest on ITV’s Loose Women when he said ‘fuck’ during a discussion about HIV.

Everett was talking about when he was convinced he had contracted HIV when shooting a television show in the 1980s.

He said: ‘For the first few years of HIV, you couldn’t test for it. When my whole career started I thought I was on a death sentence.

Critics have slated Sirs Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi’s new gay sitcom Vicious.

The first episode saw older gay couple Freddie and Stuart, who have lived together for 48 years, hosting a wake and meeting their sexually ambiguous young neighbor.

A call back to a classic kind of comedy filmed in front of a live audience, the show worked well when showing off its camp one-liners about age and relationships.

Gay chat show host and author Paul O'Grady has likened David Cameron to the 'Sheriff of Nottingham', as he robs from the poor to give to the rich.

The English comic said the British government was bleeding the people dry, attacking the much lambasted 'bedroom tax'.

The tax, aimed at cutting housing benefits for people with one spare bedroom in their property, has already triggered mass demonstrations across the country.

Gay British TV presenter, actor, author and brainbox Stephen Fry has made a video asking people to save other animals from the fate of the Lonely Dodo.

Fry, who presents British weird-fact TV quiz QI and starred in a biopic on Oscar Wilde, has teamed up with Oscar-winning studio Aardman, makers of the Wallace and Gromit films to make the short animation.

He narrates the story of the Lonely Dodo, voiced by stand-up comic Alistair McGowan.

Actor Rupert Everett, who has chronicled his adventurous sex life in two memoirs, has said in an interview that he's not interested in it anymore.

'Sex has passed me by,' said Everett to the Observer's Victoria Coren.

'It's over! I've spent most of my adult life, since the age of 10, thinking almost exclusively about sex, and getting it, or recovering from it. But it's all smoke and mirrors to me now.'

The Attorney General has told the Court of Appeals to review the sentence of a man who was given just 42 months jail for burning a gay teen to death, Gay Star News has learned.

Steven Simpson, who had Asperger’s syndrome, a speech impairment and epilepsy was celebrating his 18th birthday when the incident happened in the early hours of 23 June last year.

As he became more drunk, homophobic insults were scrawled on his arm and stomach and he was encouraged to strip to his underwear and dance.

Writer Jonathan Harvey, whose play and film Beautiful Thing defined coming out in Britain under Section 28, has Tweeted against Margaret Thatcher on the day of her funeral.

Thatcher’s Conservative government introduced Section 28 to the UK in 1988. It effectively stopped teachers from talking about being lesbian, gay or bisexual to their pupils in schools.

Writing on Twitter today (17 April) Harvey states: ‘Young gay men fawning over Thatcher clearly have no knowledge of gay history.’