Grindr and Gaydar have pulled an advert that invited gay and bi men to find out if they had a ‘cool gene’ that could protect them from HIV.

Now Cool Genes, a firm in Oxford, southern England, has apologized for advertising the £39 ($61 €45) service and said it will rethink the test.

The firm advertised on gay dating app Grindr and site Gaydar under headline ‘Got the cool gene?’

It was promoting a test that could find out whether you have a genetic mutation which makes it less likely you will contract HIV.

Gay and lesbian dating site Gaydar has announced it is to close its bar and club in Soho, London – just days after also shedding its radio station.

Profile and Lo Profile, in the heart of the British capital’s gay district on Wardour Street, will shut today (7 January).

Gaydar Radio will be turning off after 11 years of entertaining global audiences on 7 January.

The online station based in west London, which went from a dating website add-on to a global brand, will be handing over its DAB license to Manchester station Gaydio.

As part of the agreement between Gaydio and Gaydar Radio’s owner QSoft Consulting, the Gaydar dating brand will continue to be supported by on air editorial programming and advertising support.

US pop star Ke$ha says she wants to be a gay man because they are 'magical people'.

The Tik Tok singer whose latest single Die Young is out now told Britain's Gaydar Radio that she feels a strong bond with gay men.

Asked if she would like to be a gay man, she answered: 'Are you joking? Yes, I do.'

Ke$ha added: 'There's just an energy to a gay man.

A Manchester gay bar owned by former manager of British boyband Take That has been saved from closure just days before the UK city's pride festival.

The Canal Street pub called Queer faced closure after police called for an emergency licence review following an attack at the venue last month (July 2012) left a man bleeding from the head.

Nigel Martin-Smith ran a campaign to keep the bar open and has now finally been given the green light by the council to re-open under the condition only plastic glasses are used.

English RnB pop superstar Cheryl Cole has come out for equal marriage.

Cole, who is currently promoting her single Call My Name, has also urged everyone to take part in the UK government’s consultation on how to introduce equal civil marriage in England and Wales, which ends on Thursday (14 June).

She makes the comments while speaking to Neil Sexton and Debbie Ryan on Gaydar Radio’s N'Debz show, due to air on Saturday.

Gay campaigners in South Africa have turned into sleuths to help solve the mystery of a series of murders of gay men in Gauteng Province.

The string of killings began with the killing of Manolis Veloudos in April 2010. Seven more gay men were killed under similar circumstances, culminating with the murder of Rulov Seneval in February 2012.

The New York Gotham Knights are preparing to defend their gay rugby world title this weekend as Manchester hosts the Bingham Cup.

In total 39 clubs from 15 countries will be represented at the tournament in Manchester, north west England which is being supported by the country’s Rugby Football Union.

The gay capital of the north is preparing to host over 1,500 players and spectators from Amsterdam, Dublin, Ottawa, Stockholm, Sydney and beyond.

British all-girl pop band, The Saturdays, have become the first major celebrities to record a video for a new campaign promoting same-sex marriage.

Out4Marriage is getting politicians, famous names and ordinary members of the public to record a video explaining why they support marriage equality. Although it’s only a few days old, hundreds of people, gay and straight, have already taken part.

It has already won the support of Britain’s Got Talent judge David Walliams and gay author, actor, TV presenter and comic Stephen Fry who have both sent supportive tweets.

Kathy Griffin's new weekly talk show debuts Thursday (19 April) on the Bravo network and the outspoken comedienne tells Gay Star News she knows darn well who her audience is.

'Honey, you are my demographic,' she said during a conference call this morning.

'The struggle on this show is to get one f***ing heterosexual [viewer]. This show is basically straight bashing at this point. We are very, very LGBTQI-friendly. We talk about those issues. ... My tentacles have been reaching into the community for a long time.'

Gay Ski Week NZ was in it’s ninth year last August when it all went horribly wrong. Three days before it was due to start Sally Whitewoods, who owns a backpacking hostel with her wife Mandy in Queenstown where the ski week was based, got a call from the organiser saying his company had gone into liquidation. ‘We just made last year happen within a 48 hour period,’ says Sally on the phone to Gay Star News from New Zealand. ‘Luckily we managed to keep everyone happy.’