As part of a stand against Australian laws prohibiting same-sex marriages, a gay man is planning to marry a lesbian bride at a demonstration in Brisbane.

Chad St James, a student filmmaker and gay rights activist is marrying lesbian Kristan Walker this Sunday (26 May) forming what has been described as a government endorsed ‘gay’ marriage.

On Facebook, the gay husband-to-be said ‘needless to say I'm all kinds of nervous and stressed’ about marrying Kristan, a fellow marriage equality activist.

A man is facing jail for being connected to one of several anti-gay attacks in New York City.

Gornell Roman is accused of yelling homophobic remarks and attacking a gay man he had been drinking with on Monday (20 May).

He was charged with assault and aggravated harassment, both as hate crimes, by police today (22 May), according to the Associated Press.

Gay rights advocates in India and around the world are mourning the death of 'committed, passionate, inspiring, nurturing, visionary' activist Shivananda Khan, who passed away on Monday (20 May).

'[Khan] forged a pioneering path across the decades in helping achieve rights and equality for LGBT individuals and communities in diverse geographies and sociocultural environments from Europe to Asia and the Pacific,' said a statement from the organization he helped found, Asia Pacific Coalition on Male Sexual Health (APCOM).

The Church of Scotland’s General Assembly has voted to allow openly gay people to become ministers.

The church voted today (20 May) 340 for and 282 against to allow the ordination of gay and lesbian ministers but only next year.

The decision will have to be endorsed by the church's regional presbyteries and officially approved next year.

The year’s delay is seen as a narrow victory for the traditionalist wing of the Church that threatened to split off.

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.

Assaults on the LGBT community and incidents of homophobic hate speech have both risen sharply in France over the last year.

The number of calls to SOS Homophobie’s helpline were up by 27% on the previous year.

Homophobic hate crime spiked last year in the run-up to the French parliament's approval of a Bill allowing same-sex couples to marry and adopt children.

Incidents doubled in October and November when compared with the previous year, and tripled in December.

Stonewall has denied advising a Catholic school on student's 'gay' shoes.

St Mary’s Catholic Primary School in Wimbledon, south-west London, called on Stonewall to help students and teachers about dealing with homophobia.

The brutal killing of a young gay Russian has sparked international outrage.

The previously unidentified Vladislav Tornovoi, a 23 year-old gay rights activist, was found dead in an apartment complex in the southern city of Volgograd on Friday (10 May).

He was viciously tortured and then killed for coming out to his friends.

Philadelphia is now the only US city with wide ranging legislation to protect LGBT citizens and families.

Last week, on 9 May (Thursday), Mayor Michael Nutter signed Bill No. 130224. According to the city's website, the new law provides a tax credit to 'employers who offer health benefits to same-sex couples, life partners and transgender employees.'  No other city in the US offers such benefits to employers.

A poster protesting against equal marriage in France is going viral after being called racist.

It depicts Minister of Justice Christiane Taubira, born in Guiana, as a raging gorilla King Kong figure, overwhelmed by a flood of anti-gay protestors from Manif Pour Tous.

The slogan is a play on words, with ‘manif monstre’ meaning ‘giant demonstration’.

Posted on 6 May, it outraged gay rights activists as well as those who oppose marriage equality.

Brendon Ayanbadejo, a Super Bowl champion and ally to the LGBT community, spoke to the host of the Sunday News program Meet the Press about the significance of basketball player Jason Collins announcement that he's gay.

The man who helped make the Netherlands the first country in the world to legalize gay marriage in 2001 has said 'the start is happening now' for the same in Japan.

Borris Dittrich, former Dutch MP and LGBT director for Human Rights Watch said in an interview with the Japan Daily Press: