A church in New Castle County, Delaware has removed an image from its electronic billboard which appeared to be criticizing efforts in the state to legalize same-sex marriage after it said it had been misinterpreted.

The image on the Glasgow Church billboard showed a Christian cross and an equals sign on a red background with a ‘greater than’ math sign between them – appearing to send the message that religion was more important than marriage equality.

Ruth Davidson, leader of the Scottish Conservative party, split up with her partner after five-year relationship after the two have grown apart due to hectic work schedules.

Davidson, the UK’s first openly gay political party leader, split from Saskia Halcrow after a five-year relationship.

Davidson who is 34 year-old lived in a flat with Halcrow, also 34, in the Finnieston area of Glasgow, Scotland.

It is understood that Halcrow, a business analyst, moved out of the flat last month.

While the London 2012 Olympics have been generally hailed as an outstanding success, there is some lingering skepticism as to what legacy the Olympics have left for the UK’s LGBT community – are there more openly gay or lesbian elite athletes? Is there more grass roots participation in sport by LGBT people? It is perhaps too early to know.

The Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator has ruled that St Margaret's Children and Family Care Society in Glasgow is directly discriminating against LGBT people by excluding them from becoming adopters.

The ruling follows a complaint from the National Secular Society.

One of the country's top Catholic clerics has claimed same-sex relationships are ‘morally defective.’

Mario Conti, Archibishop Emeritus of Glasgow also attacked the Scottish Government for the ‘profoundly unwise’ decision to ‘equate homosexual unions with heterosexual marriage’ by legalising marriage equality.

The gay former leader of a local council in Scotland has died after being assaulted in Glasgow city center in the early hours of Saturday (22 December).

John Morrison, 50, was attacked while on his way home to Milngavie, where he lived with his partner, after a Christmas night out.

A man has appeared in court charged with assaulting him.

The former Liberal Democrat leader of East Dunbartonshire Council from 2003 to 2007 was found on Argyle Street at 12.40am.

He was taken to Glasgow Royal Infirmary for treatment but died there.

The Strathclyde Gay and Lesbian Switchboard (SGLS) which was set up on Union Street, Glasgow, in 1977, will shut on Scotland’s Hogmanay (New Years Day).

The charity said its major contributor, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, cut funding two years ago leaving SGLS surviving on savings since.

Another health board recently also scrapped its funding.

The service provides information, advice, arranges support meetings and one-to-one communication for the region's LGBT community.

Police have launched an investigation after a man was raped in Glasgow's west end in the early hours of the morning (30 November).

The 25-year-old was attacked between midnight and 02:00 as he walked close to Dowanhill Park, near Hyndland Street and Highburgh Road, reported BBC Scotland.

The man had approached the suspect to ask for a cigarette but was then sexually assaulted.

A teenager has admitted killing a gay barman who tried to comfort him about his sexuality.

Ryan Esquierdo, 19, strangled to death Stuart Walker, 28 and then set fire to his body on an industrial estate in Cumnock, Ayrshire, last October reported today STV.

Esquierdo was originally charged with murder, but the Crown accepted his plea to the lesser charge of culpable homicide after hearing he had suffered traumatic abuse as a child.

The nephew of murdered gay Scot Michael Polding has joined police in appealing for help in finding a man wanted in connection with his uncle’s killing.

Police launched a murder investigation after 63-year-old Polding was found dead in his home in the English city of Brighton on 16 July. It is thought that he may have been dead since May.

The new Archbishop-elect of Glasgow Philip Tartaglia, an outspoken critic of marriage equality, has linked a gay Catholic Member of Parliament's early death to being gay.

Tartaglia previously attacked the Scottish government’s and Westminster proposals to legalise gay marriage, but now it's emerged he linked the Labour MP’s death to his sexuality.

David Cairns MP, a former Catholic priest and member of the Scottish Labour Party, died in May 2010 from acute pancreatitis at the age of 44.

A man has been arrested in connection with the death of a gay Scottish man who moved to Brighton to start a new life in the city's LGBT community.

The 28-year-old from London was arrested last night (22 July) in the UK capital on suspicion of murder and has been taken into custody in Sussex today (Monday).

A murder investigation was launched on Saturday (21 July) after the body of a man was found in a flat in St George's Road, Brighton, last Monday (16 July).