Apple has banned a comic for containing images of gay sex. Earlier issues, which showed explicit straight sex, are still available.

The new issue of SAGA, by Brian K Vaughn and Fiona Staples, shows a character named Prince Robot IV with a TV screen for a head showing two small images of gay pornography.

The acclaimed series’ 12th issue will not be available through the iOS Comixology app or on iPhones or iPads.

Vaughn said: ‘As has hopefully been clear from the first page of our first issue, SAGA is a series for the proverbial “mature reader”.

Some of the most homophobic countries in the world are really into gay porn, reveals porn search engine PornMD.

The company has published search data today (13 March) mapping porn habits across the globe – and it reveals in many of the worst countries to be LGBT, gay porn is as popular or more popular than straight erotica.

In Kenya, where you can be imprisoned for being gay for up to 14 years, the second most searched for kind of porn is ‘monster cock’.

A gay porn star has landed in hot water after playing with his own hose in a Louisville, Kentucky fire station

Nicolas Gonzalas was arrested last week after allegedly breaking into a fire station and then masturbating on the firemen’s gear he removed from the lockers.

When a firefighter went to investigate the sound of broken glass, they found the 27-year-old in the middle of pleasuring himself.

The firefighter detained Gonzales until police arrived where they arrested him for burglary, public intoxication, and criminal mischief.

As we examine the fall-out from the re-election of Barack Obama, one thing is certain – American politics is a much more gay friendly place.

In Tammy Baldwin, Wisconsin has voted in its first ever openly gay senator. An additional three gay men have joined the house of representatives and, more encouraging still, the approval of ballot initiatives means that gay people can get married in a further three states. While there’s work still to be done, the foundation for further advances in LGBT equality looks more solid than ever.

An American man has been hit with a $1.5 million fine for illegally downloading gay porn movies.

Pornographic film company Flava Works was awarded $150,000 per film by a federal court in Illinois over claims that Kywan Fisher pirated their movies and uploaded them to file-sharing website BitTorrent.

According to Flava's court statements, they were downloaded or viewed 3,449 times.

Andrew Koch says he was having some financial problems after being placed on a leave of absence Naval Reserves Officers Training Corps for medical reasons.

So to make some money, he took on the name of Patrick Hunter and began making gay porn movies.

Now the Florida man is being recommended for discharge because of his side job. He was three years into a four-year scholarship services contract with the US Navy.

Is the English legal establishment institutionally homophobic? That may seem an odd question, given the wealth of LGBT-positive initiatives put in place by police forces in recent years. But two recent prosecutions around gay pornography – of Michael Peacock in January for distributing it and of Simon Walsh for possessing it – are leading many in the non-straight community to raise an eyebrow.

More courts across the United States are ruling that calling someone ‘gay’ is not slanderous.

The latest court to do so is an appeal court in New York City last Thursday (31 May), and was hailed by gay rights groups as a small but important victory.

A woman was being sued for allegedly spreading a rumor that a New York man was gay in the hope of breaking up his relationship with another woman.

Two Japanese gay porn stars will promote safe sex at a party in Taipei tomorrow.

Taiwan AIDS Foundation invited the two actors, Koh Masaki and Kong, to a launch party for a gay health education website and a new centre in Ximenting, a gay area in Taiwan's capital.