The culture of the Police Service in Britain is developing into one where you can be as comfortable at work as you are at home – that is the strategic aim. It is worth noting that there are eight local police forces listed in the Stonewall Top 100 Index of gay-friendly employers and LGBT officers are included in the majority of UK police forces. It hasn’t always been this way.

Over 100,000 people from nations including Canada, France, UK, USA, Netherlands, Germany and Japan, say they still suffer from discrimination and harassment at home and in work.

The LGBT 2020 Homophobia Report from Out Now Global says homophobia is still endemic – even where gay marriage has been accepted.

In the first case of its kind in the US, the adoptive parents of an intersex child are suing over the damage caused by 'irreversible and medically unnecessary' surgery.

When Mark and Pam Crawford's child, MC, was 16 months old and in the care of South Carolina social services he (he now, aged eight, identifies as male) had surgery to remove part of his genitals.

An American professional wrestler promised to get violent over gay marriage.

Pro athlete Jay Briscoe sent a violent and homophobic tweet the day after Delaware became the 11th state in the US to legalize same-sex marriage.

Armed with placards and rainbow paint, about forty people turned out last night (10 May) to highlight Sean Bailey’s treatment within McDonald’s management at a central Auckland store.

Earlier this week the 19-year-old told media he had been asked to 'stop acting so gay' by management. He was also told: 'If you turn anyone in the store gay you will be fired.'

Only the Minnesota Vikings know for sure if punter Chris Kluwe lost his job with the team after eight seasons because he had become such an outspoken activist for LGBT equality.

But Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton, who could be signing a gay marriage bill into law next week, is making clear that he isn't pleased with the team's decision.

'I don’t feel good about it,' Dayton said Wednesday (8 May) while fielding questions from reporters about funding for the Vikings’ new stadium.

Shortly after the Delaware State Senate passed a marriage equality bill on Tuesday (7 May), Governor Jack Markell wasted no time and signed the legislation into law within an hour.

'The fact is, there were a lot of people in that (capitol) building who have been waiting for years or even decades for something like this to happen,' he said in an online Google chat after the signing. 'I wasn't going to make them wait any longer.'

Nitzan Horowitz announced his intention to run for election to Israel’s largest city, Tel Aviv, against the incumbent Ron Huldai.

Horowitz, of the left of centre Meretz party, is the country’s only openly gay Member of the Israeli Knesset (MK), a post he intends to resign if elected to the be the mayor of Tel-Aviv.

His annoncement yesterday (6 May) pits the 49 year-old Horowitz against Labor’s Huldai in the 22 October elections.

If he wins, he would become Tel Aviv’s first openly gay mayor, and the first in any Israeli city or the Middle East.

Human Rights Watch has vigorously condemned last month's decision by Justice Quentin Loh in Singapore's High Court to uphold a law criminalizing consensual gay sex.

'I was stunned because I thought that this was a very clear breach of equality before the law,' said deputy director Asia of Human Rights Watch, Phil Robertson, speaking exclusively to Gay Star News.

Russell Tovey says it is more of a ‘risk’ for a gay man to play gay than it is for a straight actor.

The British actor, famous for roles Being Human and The History Boys, has said his career is unique because all the characters he plays are heterosexual.

Want to see the tangible results of the modern gay rights battle? Count the number of companies who signed the amicus brief in the US Supreme Court case involving the Defense of Marriage Act. Retailers like Amazon and Starbucks put their brand names behind marriage equality. High powered firms like Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs did the same. Approximately 300 companies said in part:

A union on the other side of the world has taken on the fight of LGBT activists in Asia who were excluded from a meeting in Brunei last week.

US-based hospitality union Unite Here were alerted to the exclusion of LGBT groups from an ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) conference by a Gay Star News report.