American singer-songwriter Cher is soon to release her 26th album.

On Sunday (21 April), the 66-year-old took to Twitter to report on her album’s progress, tweeting ‘I JUST FINISHED MY CD!’

The as yet untitled album was originally scheduled for release in March, but Warner Bros. Records say it will now be released in September.

It is the popular gay icon’s latest studio album since the release of Living Proof in 2001. 

A teaser track for the album, called ‘Woman’s World’, was released last November.

Britain's leading gay rights charity, Stonewall, has asked supporters to stage fundraising parties during the Eurovision song contest to stamp out homophobia worldwide.

The European-wide singing show, with contestants from every country on the continent, is an annual TV extravaganza, much loved by Europeans and by LGBT fans around the world.

Coronation Street TV star Charlie Condou has defended his soap’s writers who have made his gay character fall in love with a woman.

He also said gay male portrayals on British television have improved but it is still important LGBT issues get into people’s homes via the media.

He was talking at a panel debate for National Student Pride in Brighton on the south coast of England that saw others calling for more media representation of transgender, bisexual and lesbian people.

A group of gay men went to a theater in Lafayette, Louisiana on Sunday night to see The Guilt Trip, a new comedy starring gay icon Barbra Streisand.

The movie hadn't even started when trouble began.

Bette Midler has been a gay icon since the early 1970s when she made a splash as a headliner at the Continental Baths in Manhattan.

She became movie star in 1979 in The Rose, won Grammys, Emmys, Golden Globes and earned two Oscar nominations in a career that has also included such films as Beaches, For the Boys, The First Wives Club, Ruthless People, Down and Out In Beverly Hills and classic television production of Gypsy.

Dolly Parton says she has received death threats from the Ku Klux Klan over her 'Gay Day' at theme park Dollywood in Tennessee.

Rumors about the relationship between the gay icon and her female best friend Judy Ogle have followed her throughout her career.

'Judy and I have been best friends since we were like in the third and fourth grade,' she said in the interview with the Daily Mail.

Fortunately the country western singer feels secure enough in her 46-year long marriage with Carl Dean that she is able to laugh off such claims.

Prince Harry may be the British royal family's bad boy, but appearing half-naked at a London gay bar was not what we were expecting.

Wishful thinking aside, the 28-year-old prince has actually been immortalised in a huge lifelike mural painted at a Soho club.

Currently on duty in Afghanistan, the blue-blooded hunk became a hit with gay people after he supported human rights causes.

Club director Chris Amos said: 'It probably began when we started seeing him in his army uniform.

'He's a real man. He's cheeky and sexy but he's also decent.

British lesbian musician and actress Heather Peace has announced she will perform down under at the world famous Sydney Mardi Gras.

The performance, which has been headlined by gay icons like Kylie Minogue, will be the beginning of a tour which will take Peace across Australia.

Touring from10 – 24 February, Peace said it was a ‘dream come true’.

‘It’s been a dream of mine to perform at Sydney Mardi Gras and I’ve also had so many requests on social media from Australian fans for me to come over and play,’ she said.

Hollywood actress Gina Gershon claims her love life might have been easier if she was a lesbian.

The star who became a gay icon after roles in lesbian crime caper Bound and cult flop Showgirls told CNN that her lesbian, gay and transgender fans are the 'coolest'.

'I love that fan base,' Gershon gushed.

'Life might have been a little bit easier had I actually been a lesbian. Maybe my love life would have been easier. Although that’s probably not true.'

She added: 'I don’t mean to be sexist but the lesbian fans do give me the best presents.'

Small, blonde and deceptively softly spoken, Alex Davis is a force to be reckoned with.

Originally from Portsmouth in the South of England, Davis has been swimming competitively since the age of five.

Still swimming, Davis is now also a sports development officer for local government in London but these days her big challenge (along with co-chair Jonathan Harbourne) is leading the bid to bring the 2018 Gay Games to London.

Paris Hilton has released a lengthy apology letter after her controversial comments in a New York taxi.

The heiress found herself in hot water after an audio recording captured the socialite saying ‘most gay men… probably have AIDS.’

During a conversation with a friend about Grindr, the popular dating app for gay men, she said: ‘Gay guys are the horniest people in the world…they’re disgusting.

On the night of 4 November 2008 the whole world was about to witness something historic. To prepare myself for the night and the drama that was about to unfold, I spent the whole day drinking coffee. I had to stay awake, I had to see for myself what was about to happen.

Earlier in the day Americans in their millions turned out to cast their vote. This was not just another election, this one would make history as the first time an African-American or what many people will comfortably call a black American, was on the verge of being president.