Canada’s National Defence Department is considering cutting free Viagra and tax-paid transgender surgery for their armed forces.

The country is currently looking for ways to trim its $1.5 billion (£922million, €1.1billion) defence budget, and both programs cost more than $2million (£1.2million, €1.5million) a year.

Today is the 26th anniversary of Stephen Mosher and Pat Dwyer.

And to celebrate their 25th anniversary last year, the couple decided to get married in every state in the US that allowed it.

Their footage of the nuptual roadtrip is being turned into a documentary titled Married and Counting. And American gay actor George Takei has signed on as the film's narrator.

An Indian gay couple scared of ending up behind bars fled their village as their marriage was found to have been solemnised 'by mistake'.

Simran and Chunmun Kumar, both in their 20s, registered their marriage in late March in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. But officials maintain they had submitted two false affidavits, describing one as a man and the other as woman, reported The Indian Express.

Nepal's only openly gay politician has opened the south Asian country's first gender-neutral toilet.

The facility, which is labeled for 'third genders' and 'others', is situated in the southern area of Nepalganj.

It was unveiled by Sunil Babu Pant, Nepal’s first openly gay politician and head of gay rights group Blue Diamond Society and the LGBT travel company Pink Mountain.

The Indian government insists that it supports the Supreme Court’s decision to decriminalize gay sex.

The announcement by Attorney General G E Vahanvati, follows confusion over the government’s stance on the issue, which is currently being debated again in Delhi High Court.

Criminalizing gay sex among consenting adults in private is a violation of fundamental rights, Vahanvati said, reported The Times of India.

While campaigning for her husband in New York City, First Lady Michelle Obama twice reminded people that it is the president who makes appointments to the US Supreme Court and that those appointments could impact gay marriage.

At an event hosted by actor Robert De Niro on Monday (19 March), the First Lady said: 'Let us not forget what [the Supreme Court's] decisions - the impact those decisions will have on our lives for decades to come - on our privacy and security, on whether we can speak freely, worship openly, and, yes, love whomever we choose.'

It all began with Lawrence v. Texas. The criminal case that abolished anti-sodomy laws in the United States is step one for all of the recent successes for gay equality, from marriage rights to the dismantling of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell.'

The owners of a hotel in England who lost an appeal to be allowed to refuse gay couples have confirmed they may take their case to the Supreme Court or European Court of Human Rights.

Civil partners Martyn Hall and Steven Preddy were turned away from the Chymorvah Hotel near Penzance, Cornwall, in 2010 by devout Christian owners Peter and Hazelmary Bull.

In January 2011 a judge at Bristol County Court ruled that the Bulls’ behavior amounted to direct discrimination and awarded £3,600 in damages to the couple.

A lesbian who took the biological daughter of her partner to Australia has sparked a global debate on the question of motherhood and egg donors.

The American women, known only in the court papers as their initials, are both in their 30s and were police officers in Florida.

One partner donated an egg that was fertilized and implanted in the other, who gave birth in 2004, nine years into their relationship.

The couple separated two years later, and the birth mother eventually left without a trace taking the child with her.

One of India’s biggest film stars, Hrithik Roshan has spoken out in defence of the gay community while the ‘morality’ of gay sex is debated in Delhi Supreme Court.

On Wednesday, senior Catholic advocate Radha Krishana told the Supreme Court that gay sex would lead to a 'horrendous' situation.

In response, Roshan released a statement speaking out against sexuality discrimination. He said:

India’s biggest international queer film festival is asking ‘everyone’ to help design its official poster, amid an ongoing court case to repeal gay sex, and give an expression to the LGBT community.

The winning design will be featured as hoardings, print and online advertisements, catalogue cover, banners, cinema slides and delegate cards for KASHISH 2012. The awards include an award plaque, a copy of the poster, an official T-shirt and a guest pass for all the events from 23 to 27 May in Mumbai.

Religious groups in India have told the Supreme Court in Delhi that gay sex would lead to a 'horrendous' situation.

Section 377, an old colonial law which outlawed same-sex relationships and made them punishable by a 10-year jail term, was overturned in 2009.

However, the debate returned to the court earlier this month and today was the turn of religious groups to put forward their argument for reinstating the 148-year-old law.