Pier Luigi Bersani, leader of the Italian PD (Democrat Party) has called for more rights for LGBT people in an interview by the national newspaper l’Unità.

Bersani said: ‘If we’ll ever win the elections and form a cabinet, we’ll have to do something to recognize same-sex unions. But don’t call it “marriage”, because our constitution does not allow it.’

Polls show PD is currently Italy’s most popular party. Bersani’s move came in response to Barack Obama’s stance on gay marriage.

A Conservative politician in northern England has joined homophobic Scottish campaigners in warning that gay marriage could lead to the legalization of polygamy.

Craig Whittaker, MP for Calder Valley in Yorkshire, wrote on his blog that he feared if the UK government goes ahead with plans to give same-sex couples equal marriage rights, then it would be a slippery slope towards far more radical laws.

Today is the 26th anniversary of Stephen Mosher and Pat Dwyer.

And to celebrate their 25th anniversary last year, the couple decided to get married in every state in the US that allowed it.

Their footage of the nuptual roadtrip is being turned into a documentary titled Married and Counting. And American gay actor George Takei has signed on as the film's narrator.

The gay father of a two-year-old boy being raised by lesbian parents in the UK has won the right to have access to his child.

Three Appeal Court judges ruled that the father, identified only as A, should not be treated as a 'secondary' parent because his son was living with two women.

Judges at the court of appeal ruled that three parents are as good as two, saying 'a two-parent lesbian nuclear family' might be 'essentially selfish and may later insufficiently weigh the welfare and developing rights of the child'.

A resolution to protect gay couples' succession rights throughout the EU has passed its first reading in the European Parliament.

Drafted by Kurt Lechner MEP, the law was adopted by a wide majority in the European Parliament today (13 March) and gives gay couples equal succession or inheritance rights.

California voters are more in favor of same-sex marriage in their state than ever before with 59 percent supporting the unions, according to a Field Poll released on Wednesday (29 February).

The results showed an eight point jump in support from a similar poll taken two years ago. Now, just 34 percent of registered voters disapprove of the marriages. Seven percent did not express an opinion.

Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell said Friday (24 February) that gays make inferior parents compared to a straight couple.

'Most of the data that I’ve read that the best environment for a child to grow up to be fully capable of achieving the American dream and having the best start at life in an intact two-parent family made up of a man and a woman,' McDonnell said.

A joint panel of the Maryland legislature has approved a draft bill to legalize same-sex marriage on Valentine's Day.

The Committee’s approval of the measure in a 25-18 joint vote has moved Maryland closer towards becoming the eighth US state to legalize gay marriage.

The measure is expected to go to the House of Representatives on Wednesday (22 February).

Australian Labor Backbencher Stephen Jones has announced that he expects his Private Member’s Bill on marriage equality to be tabled on Monday 13 February.

In a statement to press, Jones who is married with two children, seeks to change the definition of marriage from “the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life” to:

"The union of two people, regardless of their sex, to the exclusion of all others, voluntarily entered into for life."

Both houses of the Virginia State Legislature passed a bill on Friday (3 February) that would allow private adoption agencies to deny placements to gay people or anyone else who conflicts with their religious beliefs.

The state's Republican governor, Bob McDonnell, is expected to sign the bill into law.

The vote went along party lines. A Senate committee voted to endorse the bill in an 8-7 vote which then then sent it to the House where it passed 71-28.

Children raised by gay parents in the US are more likely to live in poverty, a report has revealed.

The All Children Matter report, co-authored by several national organizations, including The Center for American Progress and the Family Equality Council, claimed youngsters raised in LGBT families are twice as likely to be poor as those raised by married heterosexual couples.

A petition calling on the Scottish Government to make no changes to the current definition of marriage as being a union between a man and a woman has come under fire from equality campaigners.

The Preseving Marriage petition, which currently has 2,587 signatures, was started by Amy King and opposes the proposed introduction of same-sex marriage in Scotland.