A self-described devout Christian who teaches social studies to junior high school students Kansas took to his Facebook page to post an anti-gay message in the wake of President Barack Obama's endorsement of same-sex marriage last week.

Friends and fans have paid loving tribute to a transgender performer, described as the 'Puerto Rican Beyonce', who died in a blaze in New York.

Lorena Escalera was found dead by firefighters in the early hours of Saturday (12 May) after a fire which broke out in her apartment engulfed the four-storey building in Brooklyn.

According to the New York Times, it took 65 firefighters over 30 minutes to tackle the blaze, which is now being treated as suspicious.

Openly-gay daytime lifestyle show host Nate Berkus is defending a partnership he has entered in with the Target retail chain

Target ran afoul with the LGBT community for donating to the political group MN Forward, a Political Action Committee that supported anti-gay gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer during the 2010 election season.

A death reported on Saturday (28 April) in Cardiff, Wales is believed to be gay man Paul Iles.

Police were called to a property in Ffordd James McGhan in Cardiff Bay at 6:49am where a 31-year-old man was found dead. They are treating the death as 'unexplained'.

South Wales Police reported a 29-year-old man who was arrested in connection with the incident has been released without charge. But they told Gay Star News they are unable to confirm the identity of the the victim as Paul Iles.

A gay graduate was banned from speaking at his Catholic school after the staff learned of his sexuality from Facebook.

Dominic Sheahan-Stahl had been invited to speak at his younger brother’s graduation ceremony on 20 May at Sacred Heart Academy in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, but the invitation was withdrawn.

Sheahan-Stahl graduated from the school in 1998, and had received numerous honours and awards while at Sacred Heart. He has since been living his life as a proud gay man in New York City.

LGBT rights activists in Malaysia have warned that an 'LGBT not criminals' public parade was not organised by them and might be a fake march publicised as part of a smear campaign from government supporters.

The organisers of Seksualiti Merdeka, the sexual minorities festival that was banned in Malaysia last year, have warned their supporters not attend a parade apparently planned for this Friday.

Pang Khee Teik said on Facebook:

Spectrum, the LGBT staff network at banking giant Barclays, has launched its own mobile app to help staff keep up with the latest.

The British banks gay workers can use it to access details of upcoming events, news and links to Spectrum’s social media presence on Facebook and Twitter.

Until now Spectrum, a 10-year-old staff network, has seen most of its membership coming from the bank’s largest office hubs in London’s Canary Wharf, Northampton and Radbroke in Cheshire.

A gay teenager from the US state of Iowa killed himself after classmates set up a Facebook hate group and allegedly sent him death threats.

Kenneth Weishuhn, 14, from the city of Paullina, was found dead on 15 April.

His sister Kayla said his friends at South O’Brien High School began bullying him after he came out to them.

‘People that were originally his friends, they kind of turned on him,’ she told KTIV.

‘A lot of people, they either joined in or they were too scared to say anything.’

First it was JC Penney and Ellen DeGeneres. Then it was Toys R Us and Archie Comics.

Now the anti-gay group OneMillionMoms.com is turning its attention to Urban Outfitters because a photo in the retailer's April catalog features two women kissing.

The group is urging customers to throw the catalog away, to unsubscribe to the company's mailing list and to tell the company why.

A teaser for a new advert supporting lesbian and gay marriage equality in Britain has been released.

Director Mike Buonaiuto is producing the commercial to run on YouTube - starting in the next two weeks - in support of the campaign for equal marriage rights.

The commercial will show members of the British forces arriving home and being greeted by their loved ones. It will attempt to rally support from Facebook and Twitter, using the hashtag #equalmarriage.

Nepalese member of parliament and LGBT campaigner Sunil Babu Pant has started a petition to make Facebook a more inclusive place for transgender and gender variant people.

The All Out campaign calls on Facebook to change the current profile settings and add an additional 'third gender' for  members whose gender identity doesn't fit within simple male or female checkboxes.

The United States military has reportedly launched an investigation of the rainbow-striped gay pride flag that flew over a US army base in Afghanistan.

Three pictures of the flag were posted on the Wipeout Homophobia Facebook page, and although the photos have not been verified as real or even recent, they have since provoked global debate.

A woman named Nicole Jodice posted the picture on the group’s Facebook wall on 24 March with a message that read: ‘Hubbie in Afghanistan raising a gay pride flag.’