Google, Apple, Microsoft and many more worldwide companies are coming together to at a gay-friendly business forum.

Debating at an event organized by the pro-gay Radius business group, they multi-national businesses will work to build partnerships between LGBT people and the business world.

Human Rights Watch has vigorously condemned last month's decision by Justice Quentin Loh in Singapore's High Court to uphold a law criminalizing consensual gay sex.

'I was stunned because I thought that this was a very clear breach of equality before the law,' said deputy director Asia of Human Rights Watch, Phil Robertson, speaking exclusively to Gay Star News.

Tokyo Rainbow Week continued today (28 April) with its second, and perhaps most visible event, the Tokyo Rainbow Pride Parade.

Gay Star News was at the parade.

The event started in the 'Pride Village' in Yoyogi Park, where about 3,000 people gathered to watch performances, visit booths, and then to parade through the streets of Shibuya and back to the park.

Several corporations were at the event, including Barclays, Goldman Sachs, Google, IBM, Phillips, and UBS.

Facebook is throwing its support behind tax equity legislation for same-sex couples in California.

According to the LGBT@Facebook page: 'Facebook today announced its support of legislation that would provide tax relief for employees who receive reimbursement from their employer for federal taxes they paid on healthcare benefits provided to their same-sex partner and dependents.'

Lesbian X Factor contestant Lucy Spraggan topped a list of music artists most searched on Google in the UK this year.

The internet search engine's annual 'Zeitgeist' list revealed the singer-songwriter was this year's top trending musician, beating One Direction, the Spice Girls and Korean rapper Psy.

Spraggan left the British version of the hit talent show early on in the contest due to illness.

She impressed viewers and judges with her self-penned songs.

Google released a short video this week featuring several of the company’s employees speaking out in favor of marriage equality.

The video, titled “Googlers Supporting Marriage Equality,” was as part of a partnership between Google and The Four, a campaign group working to promote marriage equality in the four US states where the issue will put to a referendum during election day — Washington, Maryland, Minnesota and Maine.

The video features several Google employees, some of whom are gay, explaining why they support marriage equality.

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Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe has spoken out on gay teen suicide while answering questions submitted by young people in a live video chat with the Trevor Project.

A long time supporter of the US-based charity, Radcliffe spent over an hour answering questions about bullying, career insecurities he has felt and why he is committed to supporting the organization.

The stage and screen star was interviewed by Shira Lazar, from the online interactive show What’s Trending with Shira Lazar, and three members of the Youth Advisory Council. 

Search engine Google has removed 'bisexual' from its list of words it previously only associated with pornography.

The decision was made after pressure from bisexual community and campaign groups whose rankings on the website fell as a result of being blacklisted by the internet giant's Auto Complete and Instant Search functions.

'It’s not every day one of the biggest companies in the world changes its mind, but we are thankful that Google now sees bisexual people just like everyone else,' said Faith Cheltenham, president of the BiNet USA organization.

A new medium for storytelling, Meograph, launched on Monday with an interactive visualization of the campaign for gay marriage in the United States by TV channel KVMN San Deigo.

Meograph incorporates audio, video and Google maps to make storytelling ‘four-dimensional’ and is available for any news organization or individual to tell their own stories.

The gay marriage rights story, one of six by KVWM San Diego on the launch site, starts in 1972 when the Supreme Court refused a gay marriage case.

The president of an anti-gay group is saying Google is trying to destroy family values with their gay rights initiative.

Family Research Council head Tony Perkins joined other religious right advocates on his daily radio show in blasting the multinational corporation.

Perkins said: ‘Thanks to a new campaign, Google’s approach to traditional values is to search – and destroy.’

The British Commonwealth needs new meaning and should push human rights, including for LGBT people, to give it ‘a point’.

That’s the message from Shami Chakrabarti, the director of leading UK human rights pressure group, Liberty.

She was speaking at the official London launch of Google’s Legalise Love campaign this morning (9 July).