British mystery drama Jonathan Creek is being accused of transphobia.

The BBC series, which returned for an Easter special last night (1 April), featured a trans character.

During the episode, Creek played by Alan Davies referred to the character Jacqueline using male pronouns and made comments about her genitalia.

Jacqueline forgives Creek's crass comments, and later helps to solve the final piece of the puzzle.

The bisexual porn star accused of killing and chopping up a Chinese student collapsed during a court hearing in Canada today.

Luka Rocco Magnotta first asked for a break during a preliminary hearing to determine if there is enough evidence for him to stand trial. He then stood up and collapsed onto the floor of the Montreal courtroom.

He is accused of killing and dismembering Chinese foreign student Jun Lin, 33, last May. Authorities say he used an ice pick to kill Lin then carved up his body - filming it all and posting it online.

A US federal court has awarded a gay man $13.2 million after it recognized that he had been wrongfully imprisoned for a murder he did not commit.

David Ayers, now 56, was accused of murder by the Cleveland Police Department after Dorothy Brown, a 76 year old public housing resident, was found dead in 1999.

Ayers had for eight years been employed as a security officer by the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority which housed Brown before he was accused of her murder after he was the last known person to have seen her alive.

Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius, who is charged with murder, was cut from the pro-gay It Gets Better campaign yesterday (18 February).

The organizers of the campaign aiming to stop homophobic bullying said it would be inappropriate for the sportsman to continue to be involved, the South Africa Times reports.

Actor Scott Evans, best known for his role as gay police officer Oliver Fish on the US soap opera One Life to Live, has pleaded guilty in a drug case in Los Angeles.

Evans, whose older brother is Captain America star Chris Evans, was arrested last month and charged with one count of attempted possession of a controlled substance after trying to buy cocaine from an LAPD officer who was posing as a drug dealer.

British government officials – and Policing Minister, Damian Green, MP – were today accused of spreading deliberate disinformation about the reasons for prosecuting gay barrister Simon Walsh in 2012 for possession of extreme porn.

Damian Green, in particular, is singled out as needing to explain why, in respect of such a controversial legal initiative, he appeared to be smearing Walsh by linking him to practices that formed no part of the case against him.

On New Year's Eve, Joseph Kaweesi, LGBT youth worker and advocate, was arrested by Ugadan police and charged with crimes relating to homosexuality.

According to reports from Uganda, Kaweesi, one of the founder of the LGBT group Youth on Rock Foundation, is being held at Kawempe police station, in Kampala, capital of Uganda.

A gay hairdresser will be jailed for two and a half years for stabbing a man with scissors after he taunted him over his sexuality.

Lee Howett, 26, who lives in Essex, England, stabbed the man in the shoulder with his hairdressing scissors at Basildon train station.

The incident took place at around 11.15pm on 24 June, The Daily Mail reports.

Addressing the defendant, Judge David Owen Jones said: 'It may be and I accept it probably was the case that one of the young men made a homophobic comment towards you.

Bisexual actress Lindsay Lohan is being charged with third-degree assault after being arrested at around 4am this morning (29 November), police have said.

The Mean Girls star had been arguing with a woman in a New York City club before she struck the woman in the face with her hand.

Police characterized the injuries inflicted by Lohan in the alleged incident as ‘minor’, and said the victim did not need any medical attention.

The incident is the latest in a long string of highly publicised run-ins with the law for Lohan.

A young woman was beaten so badly in Alabama on Thanksgiving Day (22 November), allegedly by her girlfriend's brother, that she will require reconstructive surgery on her face.

Mallory Owens, 23, is being treated at USA Medical Center in Mobile, Alabama, for injuries to her face.

An anti-gay lawyer is facing charges of taking a teenage girl to Canada and forcing her to engage in sex on camera.

Lisa Biron, associated with reactionary Christian lawyers Alliance Defending Freedom, was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Friday (16 November).