Republican activists are reportedly planning to use President Barack Obama’s support for gay marriage against him in the race for the White House.

GOP campaigners say they are looking to paint the US President as a ‘flip-flopper’, and say Obama’s likely Republican opponent Mitt Romney is more consistent.

Obama made history by becoming the first sitting president to express support for gay marriage on Wednesday (9 May), following support from Vice President Joe Biden and Education Secretary Arne Duncan.

Any adult in Argentina will now be able to legally change their gender without approval from doctors or judges.

The law passed by the Argentine senate today by 55 votes in favour, one abstention and none in opposition will give people the right to officially change identity without anyone else's consent and give them access to surgery as a part of the 'Obligiatory Medical Plan' offered by private and public healthcare. President Cristina Fernandez, who has been supportive of the issue, now needs to sign the law.

President Barack Obama's official stance that he is still 'evolving' on the issue of gay marriage continued to be scrutinized on Tuesday (8 May).

For the second day in a row, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney faced questions about the president's position which is being increasingly focused on following Vice President Joe Biden's public support of marriage equality this week.

The third Kashish Mumbai International Film Festival hits India's cultural capital from 23rd to 27th May.

Gay Star News interviews Pallav Patankar, one of the co-directors, about what's different for this year, embracing censorship and which Bollywood celebrities will turn up.

What's different for Kashish 2012?

Italian MP Anna Paola Concia is in a German civil union with her partner Ricarda. But her rights are not recognized in Rome.

It happens to hundreds of couples in the Mediterranean country, who got married and are not recognized by the state.

But Concia is confident Italy will soon change its mind and allow same-sex unions. She told Gay Star News: ‘It will happen in four or five years, marriage equality is an idea that has spread and that now is unstoppable. And the European Union can make a difference.’

The national museum of New Zealand, Te Papa, accepted the country's AIDS memorial quilt in a church ceremony yesterday.

The quilt, a memorial to the first victims of the AIDS epidemic in New Zealand, was created with the motto: 'Remember their names, cherish their memory, celebrate their lives'.

The first panel was sewn in memory of Peter Cuthbert, the first person to die of HIV/AIDS in New Zealand in 1988.

Lindsay Lohan was reportedly a ‘total nightmare’ on the set of musical TV highschool drama Glee.

The troubled actress – who recently won the opportunity to play the role of the late Dame Elizabeth Taylor in Liz and Dick – turned up late on set and is believed to have not prepared for the role when she arrived to play a part on the musical TV show.

Gay and bisexual men are more likely to smoke, drink, take drugs, self-harm, attempt suicide and be depressed – but they’re often overlooked by health services.

That’s the damning verdict of a survey by Stonewall into the health of gay and bisexual men in Britain – the biggest study of it’s kind in the world.

Their report out today (25 April) found that 3% of gay men and 5% of bisexual men have attempted suicide in the last year alone – by comparison to just 0.4% of men in general.

Late last week, the film Bully was screened at the White House. As described by Valerie Jarrett, senior advisor to President Barack Obama, the audience included people associated with the documentary and policy makers.

One of the world’s most powerful businesswomen has spoken about the moment she came out as lesbian after 52 years in the closet.

As a former senior official in the Clinton administration and now global vice-char at Ernst & Young, one of the world’s largest professional services companies, Beth Brooke is a woman with global clout.

But it took a request to take part in a video aimed at suicidal lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender kids to give her the courage she needed to come out herself.

Gay marriage has been used as a wedge issue by Republicans in past US presidential elections, but that strategy would have little effect in the upcoming race between President Barack Obama and presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney.

According to a poll released Thursday (19 April) by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, gay marriage ranked last among 18 issues with economic issues tops on the minds of voters.