Love conquers all – and whether or not the US Supreme Court rules for gay marriage, these kids have won our hearts.

As the Justices sit today and tomorrow to hear vital cases on Proposition 8 and DOMA, crowds have flocked to Washington DC to have their say.

And while the anti-gay protestors are emphasizing hate, calling for the death penalty for ‘fags’, there’s a message of love and hope from those supporting same-sex marriage equality.

Italy’s leading students’ association has called for ‘the end of gay hate on Facebook. We need a law against discrimination on social networks.’

Rete degli Studenti Medi’s spokesman Daniele Lanni said: ‘We have to stop gay hate, we can not allow stupid people to comment and insult LGBT students.’

Lanni’s statement came after an episode of discrimination at the Liceo Classico Asproni high school in Nuoro, on the Italian island of Sardinia.

A gay man was beaten unconscious as his attacker repeatedly called him a faggot in Davis, California, over the weekend.

Mikey Partida, 32, had been celebrating his birthday and was leaving his cousin's house early Sunday (10 March) when the attack occurred.

Partida said a man who lived near his cousin began to verbally harass him as he was leaving the house.

He said he ignored the loud taunts of 'faggot' and quickly walked by. But then he had to turn around and go back to his cousin's house to retrieve his keys.

Openly gay *NSYNC star Lance Bass has attacked Chris Brown after it was alleged he called Frank Ocean ‘faggot’ during their brawl last month.

The two R&B singers fought in Los Angeles in January allegedly over a parking space, with Ocean being named by police as the victim.

Bass said as a black man Brown should realize when it comes to ‘very derogatory’ words, he should know the slur was ‘definitely meant to hurt’.

Amy gets abuse from an AirCon repairman, and the team discuss the words Fag vs Queer.

We pop along to Tate Modern to talk with Timberlina about some upcoming Queer Art events and we get stuck into all the latest GayStarNews.

American football player Ricky 'Tank' Carder has apologized for calling someone a 'faggot' on Twitter.

Despite deleting the offensive tweet on Wednesday (21 November), the Cleveland Browns linebacker initially stood by his post.

'Haters gon hate cause that’s what they do, haters don’t give respect where it should be given so I’m done arguing with you fools,' he wrote on Saturday (24 November).

But now Carder has done a U-turn, admitting he was wrong to use the homophobic slur.

Robin Tomlin is dying of liver cancer but wants some closure on one of the most painful episodes of his life.

As a student at Argyle Secondary School in North Vancouver 42 years ago, he received his yearbook and when he opened it to the page with his picture on it, there was one word printed under his name: 'Fag.'

'I feel like, emotionally, they've been beating me with a stick for 42 years,' he tells the North Shore News.

Pop rocker Pink has spoken out in her characteristically frank way about her gay fans, marriage equality, and the upcoming US presidential election.

In an interview with Gaydar Radio’s breakfast hosts Neil Sexton and Debbie Ryan, the ‘Get The Party Started’ singer said it was important to represent her ‘really rad gay audience’.

Pink said: ‘I identify with people that struggle and I respect people that have to fight for their right to be respected.

While the rest of One Direction partied at V Festival at the weekend, Zayn Malik was seen at G-A-Y nightclub in London on Saturday.

Malik, 19, was at the club supporting Little Mix band member and girlfriend Perrie Edwards.

She was singing with the rest of the girl group to celebrate the launch of their second single ‘Wings’.

One Direction have recently returned from touring in Canada and Malik was spotted sneaking into the club via the back entrance.

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in the UK are being encouraged to become football coaches.

The initiative in partnership with the Football Association, Pride Sports and Surrey County Football Association hopes to get more LGBT people involved in soccer and is part of the FA's plan to tackle homophobia in the English game.

Participants will take part in a residential course from 24 to 27 August, featuring all the necessary workshops required to attain the qualification.

Leaders from gay rights groups in Michigan will embark on a 100-day hunger strike.

Starting tomorrow 30 July, leaders from eight different gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender rights groups will go without food for 24 hours as part of their Hungry4Equality campaign.

Hungry4Equality is designed to raise awareness of specific issues facing the LGBT community, according to David Garcia, executive director of LGBT group Affirmations in Ferndale.

A new edition of a modern Chinese language dictionary has been criticized for leaving out the most popular term used by Chinese gays to refer to themselves.

The compilers of the Contemporary Chinese Dictionary omitted the gay usage among the definitions of the Mandarin word ‘tongzhi,’ literally meaning ‘comrade’, which has been adopted by Chinese homosexuals as a positive way to refer to each other.