Veteran LGBT human rights activist and gay marriage campaigner Peter Tatchell will be leading Britain's Birmingham Pride Parade on 25 May.

The parade is supporting the pending same-sex marriage bill, to legalize gay marriage in England and Wales, due to resume its progress through parliament on 20 May.

A young British man was arrested for questioning about an alleged arson attack at Maspalomas Gay Pride in Gran Canaria yesterday (6 May).

As GSN reported yesterday, up to seven businesses have been destroyed at the Yumbo Centre, the hub for gay travelers and residents in the Canary Islands.

The Dutch ambassador to Japan has kicked-off Tokyo Rainbow Week 2013 with a colorful reception for the LGBT community and their supporters.

Tokyo Rainbow Week is dedicated to supporting Japan’s sexual minority community, creating a friendly and accepting society where anybody can be themselves and lead 'a life of happiness and optimism'.

JLS will still perform their 60-minute DJ set at Birmingham Gay Pride on 25 May, despite announcing they will split at the end of this year.

The gay-friendly boy band, who released their own brand of condoms and posed for gay magazines, will also do a farewell tour in December before going their separate ways.

The foursome – Oritsé Williams, Marvin Humes, JB Gill and Aston Merrygold – previously shrugged off rumors that they are gay.

Pop acts JLS, Paloma Faith and 1980s legends Bananarama will be headlining this year’s Birmingham Gay Pride Festival, organizers have announced.

Britain’s second city will hold its pride over the public holiday weekend of 25 and 26 May.

The 2013 pride line-up will also include girl chart group Stooshe, whose performance will include their monster smash hit Black Heart, and vocalist A*M*E, who features on the current number one-selling single Need U (100%).

The Organizing Committee of the St. Petersburg LGBT Pride says they will attempt to hold Pride on 29 June, 2013 even though three previous attempts have resulted in arrests and harassment and the city’s ban on so called ‘homosexual propaganda’.

The committee further stated that Pride would be held in order to attract public attention to the LGBT people in the city, as well as promoting tolerance and equality.

Last year the city’s government agreed to allow Pride but then banned it only two days before the event was scheduled to take place (7 July 2012).

Independent Dublin City councilor Damian O’Farrell (pictured) has proposed that the city’s new Fairview Footbridge be named to honor a gay man who was beaten to death in a nearby park 31 years ago.

Declan Flynn’s 1982 death at the hands of five teenagers inspired Dublin’s LGBT community to organize its first Pride march the following year after all of the boys were given suspended sentences over the killing and some in the local areas celebrated their release.

Press Secretary of the Kostroma Oblast Court Julia Medvedeva announced the court ruled illegal a ban on gay pride marches in the region and on two rallies against the local law prohibiting propaganda of homosexuality among minors.

‘The Civil Chamber of Kostroma Regional Court granted the appeal of Moscow Pride and events founder Nikolai Alekseev against the decision of Sverdlovsk District Court’, said Medvedeva today (20 March).

The celebration of LGBT Pride takes all sorts of different forms around the world.

What began as a political movement, demanding equality and human rights for LGBT people, has evolved in many places into festivals, parades and parties of all shapes and sizes.

What’s undeniable is that the focus and character of a pride event is very much shaped by the city and people that it represents.

Tens of thousands turned out to watch members of the New Zealand military march in uniform for the first time in Saturday’s Auckland Pride parade.

It was the first time that Auckland had hosted an LGBT pride parade since 2001 when the city’s annual Hero Parade ceased due to lack of funding.

This year’s Auckland Pride parade followed the same route as the Hero Parade – along Ponsonby Street – and terminated in Victoria Park for a large public party.

This year's Paris Fashion Week saw a reappearance of a former Nazi symbol in a trendy fashion label's menswear presentation.

French fashion brand Bugler incorporated into its latest men's line the inverted pink triangle, a badge originally sewn onto the garments of convicted homosexuals in Nazi concentration camps.

Reclaimed as a symbol of gay pride since the 1970s, the pink triangle used in Mugler's latest men's collection was the only dash of color along highlighter green and neon blue in a predominantly monochromatic collection.