Hollywood actress Uma Thurman is set to play anti-gay rights activist Anita Bryant in a biopic.

Bryant was a 70’s singer, beauty queen and celebrity spokesperson for orange juice. She was named Good Housekeeping’s ‘Most Admired Woman in America’ three years in a row.

In 1997, Bryant’s celebrity career collapsed when her anti-gay activist past was revealed. The mother from Florida successfully campaigned to stop gays from teaching or adopting a child in the state.

Caleb Orozco has reported an increase in violent threats during a four-day court case that debated Belize's sodomy laws.

Orozco, chair of United Belize Advocacy Movement (UNIBAM), is campaigning to amend Section 53 of the Laws of Belize, which states ‘every person who has carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any person or animal shall be liable to imprisonment for ten years.’

UK’s Lancashire Police Constabulary have awarded their equality and diversity officer for his work on LGBT issues within the police.

Police Constable Ian Ashton received a Regional Commander’s Commendation award presented by Chief Superintendent James Lee.

‘I am extremely proud to have received this and it supports and endorses Lancashire constabulary’s work around LGB&T,’ Ashton told Gay Star News.

The commendation was awarded for Ashton’s work on national and local LGBT issues.

France was a nation of rioting and revelry as the country became the 14^th in the world to legalize gay marriage yesterday (23 April).

As the National Assembly passed the final vote, protest marches turned violent.

Stones, bottles and iron bars rained down on riot police units brought in to protect the Parisian parliament. They responded by firing tear gas at the protesters, and made 12 arrests.

‘If some people think that it’s over, we’ll show them that it is not finished,’ anti-gay leader Frigide Barjot told the crowd.

Gay sex is now legal in the US state of Montana.

An obsolete law, which called gay sex similar to bestiality, was stricken from Montana’s code yesterday (18 April).

Before Governor Steve Bullock signed the bill, he called the gay sex ban ‘embarrassing’ and ‘unconstitutional’.

Gay rights activists said they had been waiting 24 years for this moment. 16 years ago, the state Supreme Court ruled the law went against the constitution.

Writer Jonathan Harvey, whose play and film Beautiful Thing defined coming out in Britain under Section 28, has Tweeted against Margaret Thatcher on the day of her funeral.

Thatcher’s Conservative government introduced Section 28 to the UK in 1988. It effectively stopped teachers from talking about being lesbian, gay or bisexual to their pupils in schools.

Writing on Twitter today (17 April) Harvey states: ‘Young gay men fawning over Thatcher clearly have no knowledge of gay history.’

Singapore’s High Court has dismissed a case by gay partners Gary Lim and Kenneth Chee designed to scrap the law which bans gay male sex.

LGBT people in Singapore have already said they will appeal the case to the Court of Appeal.

Tribal chiefs in Zambia have called for a crackdown on gays in the Southern African nation after four gay couples sought to have their marriages recognized by a state registrar – calling for them to ‘be caged.’

Chief Madzimawe of the Ngoni and Chief Shakumbila of Mumbwa wrote to the Zambia Daily Mail to condemn LGBT people after it reported that four mixed national same-sex couples had sought to have their marriages recognized by a state registrar earlier this month.

A Russian gay activist was arrested and fined for carrying out a one-man protest against an extreme right-wing group on 31 March.

Vyacheslav Slyusarev, head of a Russian LGBT rights group, was fined 30,000 rubles (£629, €740) after protesting 'Frontier North'.

Lesbian activist, Clare Dimyon MBE, told Gay Star News Slyusarev took to the Syktyvkar streets after the group decided to rally in one of the city’s parks.

Knowing that KPMG was an inclusive employer was an important consideration for me when I applied to its graduate program. I’d come out to friends and family a couple of years before and realised I didn’t really fancy going back into the closet to present an untrue picture of who I am.

So I did a bit of research on the internet before I submitted my application form. I found out the firm had a senior, openly gay, woman on its board, Ashley Steel, and a network for its lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees and supporters, Breathe. It was a good start.

Marco Feliciano, Brazil’s human rights boss, warned that gender equality could undermine women’s roles as mothers and turn society ‘gay’.

Congressman Feliciano, the newly elected chair of Brazil’s House of Representatives Committee on Human Rights and Minorities (CDHM), was quoted yesterday (20 March) in O Globo, as making this statement in a recently published book.

A federal appeals court invalidated Virginia’s law prohibiting sodomy (anal and oral sex) ruling that is unconstitutional.

The three-judge panel of the 4th US circuit court of appeals ruled yesterday (12 March) that the law against oral and anal sex violates the constitution’s due process clause.