First Lady Michelle Obama decided to confront a gay rights heckler at a Democratic fundraiser last night (4 June).

About 12 minutes into Obama’s 20 minute speech, a lesbian standing at the front of the crowd began yelling for an executive order on equality for LGBT people.

‘One of the things that I don’t do well is this,’ the lawyer, writer and wife of the US president said to loud applause.

Journalists at the event reported she left the lectern, approached the protester, and scolded her by giving the crowd an ultimatum.

LGBT groups are livid that gay couples will not be included in a new bill that would offer US citizenship to immigrants living in the country before 31 December 2011.

Senator Patrick Leahy (pictured) had tried to have same-sex couples included in the legislation but could not garner support from even his fellow Democrats who said they did not want the inclusion to jeopardize overall immigration reform.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower  won best film and Raising Hope, American Horror Story and Days of Our Lives took home television prizes at the GLAAD Media Awards in Los Angeles Saturday (20 April)..

Wallflower writer-director Stephen Chbosky told the star-studded crowd, which included Leonardo DiCaprio, Charlize Theron, Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Evans, that he wanted to make a movie that would make kids who felt different feel less alone.

In all of the publicity so far leading up to the May 26 premiere of Behind the Candelbra on HBO, straight stars Michael Douglas and Matt Damon have insisted they did not hold back in portraying gay couple Liberace and Scott Thorson.

A new trailer - the first full-length one released so far - was unveiled on Monday (8 April) and indicates that viewers will see the two actors in bed together in intimate scenes and also show Damon emerging slowly from a swimming pool in a speedo.

It's been more than six months since Anderson Cooper finally confirmed that he is gay.

Now he is reflecting more on what it was like to grow up gay saying in an interview Monday (11 March) that 'being gay is a blessing' and that he 'couldn't be more proud' to be.

It would seem unlikely but it did happen.

During the opening portion of tonight's Oscar ceremony in Hollywood, the Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles was part of a fantasy musical number about, of all things, boobs.

It was performed by host Seth Macfarlane and called We Saw Your Boobs.

Macfarlane named actresses and the movies he has seen them topless in and included such names as Halle Berry, Naomi Watts, Nicole Kidman, Charlene Theron, and Anne Hathaway.

Chaz Bono is working on becoming nearly half the man he used to be.

The former Dancing With the Stars contestant, who was tipping the scales at 250 pounds last year, has embarked on a weight loss journey.

'I've been sticking to a really strict diet,' Bono, 43, says in the new issue of People magazine. 'It's not any type of starvation thing. I'm just cutting out a lot of stuff and eating primarily protein and vegetables and fruit.'

Before Anderson Cooper came out publicly last year, he never would have had an exchange like the one he had with executive producer Terence Noonan on an episode of hos daytime talk show this week.

But now apparently it's anything goes.

When Noonan asked Cooper: 'Hope do you know anything about what women are doing?' it led to a playful exchange.

'Because, unlike you, sweetie (laughs), I have had a little bit more experience in other areas other than with guys,' Cooper sassed back.

Johnny Weir, a three-time US National Champion and two-time Olympian in figure skating, will be taking his competitive skills from the ice rink to the kitchen.

Weir, who is openly gay, is one of eight celebrities set to face off in Rachael vs. Guy Celebrity Cook-Off. Previews of the show show him kissing fellow competitor, actor Dean McDermmot but it's not know the context of the kiss. McDermott is married to Tori Spelling.

Gay actor Neil Patrick Harris was full of festive cheer as he joined US President Barack Obama and his family for the national Christmas tree lighting.

The How I Met Your Mother star hosted last night's (6 December) 90th annual light switch-on outside the White House in Washington DC.

After the American leader, First Lady Michelle Obama and their daughters Sasha and Malia did the honors, Harris and other celebrity guests closed the ceremony by rocking around the Christmas tree singing 'Santa Claus Is Coming To Town'.

Tricia Macke, a news anchor for the Fox affiliate in Cincinatti, Ohio, has returned to the air following a two-day suspension for referring to Rachel Maddow as an 'angry young man.'

Macke made the comment about the MSNBC anchor, who is a lesbian, on her Facebook page last month. When Facebook followers pointed out that the remark was offensive, Macke refused to back down writing defiantly: 'I knew what I was saying.'