Australia's ABC radio asked this morning how gay marriage law in France, if it gets passed, affect the overseas collectivity of French Polynesia.

The host of the Pacific Beat program asked Tahitian politician Sabrina Birk, about how marriage equality will affect the local gay community and 'rae rae' (transgender women).

Three lesbian women were brutally assaulted and sexually molested in downtown Nariobi, the capital of Kenya.

Identity Kenya reported and independently verified the three women spent the night together in the same bed and were attacked by two men last Thursday (16 August).

The assailants, known as ‘Herb’ working at a local bar, and ‘Blacki’, a khat (stimulant drug) dealer reportedly knew the women.

A campaign has been launched to save transwoman Fernanda Milan from deportation back to Guatamala from Denmark.

Guatamala has a shocking reputation for transgender hate crimes. A 2010 report showed that 13 transwomen were murdered over one year.

Milan came to Denmark in search of a better life, but her treatment when she first arrived was far from what she hoped. She was placed in the men’s wing of an accommodation center for asylum seekers, where she was raped by several men.

The Anonymous and TheEliteSociety hacking groups have launched a joint all-out attack against countries in Africa that kill or imprison LGBT people in an operation dubbed #OpFuckAfrica.

So far websites in Botswana, Somalia, Sudan, and Uganda have been taken down or their databases have been leaked.

The groups promise more websites will be hacked in African states that oppress LGBT rights.

Gay Star News have been sent some great photos of the Gaijatra Pride Festival in Pokhara City, Nepal, where thousands marched for LGBT equality last Friday (3 August).

The photos show grey skies and plenty of umbrellas, but high spirits.

Nepalese LGBT rights activist and organizer of the festival, Sunil Pant, told Gay Star News he was ‘extremely pleased’ with how it went and that it was ‘a lot of fun’.

The Vatican has refused to formally welcome the Bulgarian ambassador because of a row over a book he wrote which includes a gay story line.

Kiril Maritchkov, 37, has been ‘banned’ from being ambassador to the Vatican for having written a novel set in Italy including a gay plot. One of the main characters in the book pays another man for sex.

Tension is growing between the Vatican and Bulgaria as negotiations continue on the issue.

A top Malaysian police assistant director in national security warned graduates in Kuching, in the eastern state of Sarawak, about the ‘threat’ of LGBT influence at a talk on Sunday.

Mohd Sofian Md Makinuddin, during a talk titled ‘1Voice, 1Destiny, 1Malaysia’ organized by Sarawak Dayak Graduates Association, said:

‘Now we are facing the threats of certain quarters who hide behind NGOs and use religion, race and society as their tools to influence the people.’

A 25-year-old gay man who fled homophobic persecution in Senegal has been denied an asylum application and is likely to be deported.

Lamine, not his real name, was arrested upon landing in Toulouse airport on Saturday for possession of false documentation. He may be deported back to Senegal as early as tomorrow 26 July.

The court's decisions and procedures are being criticised by local aslym associations.

A judge in Hong Kong ruled in favor of the police in a controversial case concerning the disruption of an IDAHO (International Day Against Homophobia) event in 2011.

Police disrupted a peaceful anti-homophobia rally on 15 May 2011 when a group began to dance, despite previously issuing a Notice of No Objection to the demonstration. The police claimed the dancing meant the event required an entertainment license.

Thousands of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender travelers and their friends will be painting an Austrian lake pink this summer in a unique four-day summer holiday event.

Pink Lake, which is supported by Gay Star News this year, is a long weekend of costume balls and boat parties on the stunning Lake Woerthersee, nestled between Slovakia and Italy.

We asked Jeff Wahl, one of the organizers, to tell us all about it.

What is Pink Lake?

When the first openly gay man in Montenegro returned to his hometown for a TV interview he was met by a chorus of verbal abuse.

Zdravko Cimbaljevic was back in Niksic after a year and a half to be interviewed by a Serbian TV channel.

Despite being surrounded by plain clothes police officers, several dozen people shouted profanities and derogatory comments to Cimbaljevic, who is the director of LGBT Forum Progress, a gay rights group in Montenegro.

Anderson Cooper, after being silent about his sexuality for so long, picked the perfect week to acknowledge publicly that he is gay.

On a typical week, he is live on the air on CNN at least one hour a night with Anderson Cooper 360 and would have been a bigger story than anything else he would have covered.