The self-self styled prophet of a Ghanaian church is blaming a recent spate of fires at markets in Accra on gay sex and other sins – saying the fires are divine punishment from God.

Prophet Kwabena Tawiah of the Church of Rabbi claims to have predicted last year that God would punish Ghana with fires and told Ghana’s Peace FM that God would continue to judge Ghana with fires until July unless people in the country turn to God.

Yes, Robbie Rogers did retire from pro soccer after coming out last February as a gay man.

But he's ready to resume his career and he will be doing so with the Los Angeles Galaxy of Major League Soccer, USA Today reports.

The Galaxy, the team for which David Beckham played for five years, has not officially announced the deal but USA Today confirmed details with two people familiar with the negotiations who insisted on anonymity.

Soccer pro Robbie Rogers came out publicly as a gay man in February then promptly retired from the sport.

But he's been practicing in recent weeks with the Major League Soccer team the Los Angeles Galaxy including forward Landon Donovan.

If it works out that Rogers joins the team, he will become the first out player in the league, something Donovan thinks players and fans are ready for.

He said of Rogers: 'We recently had a player come play with us who has declared publicly that he's gay, and it's been a very, very good thing for our team.'

A young British man was arrested for questioning about an alleged arson attack at Maspalomas Gay Pride in Gran Canaria yesterday (6 May).

As GSN reported yesterday, up to seven businesses have been destroyed at the Yumbo Centre, the hub for gay travelers and residents in the Canary Islands.

Brighton has always attracted the right sort. Way back in 1822, when the seaside city was just developing as a holiday capital, a servant from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, George Wilson, met a guardsman there in a pub called the Duke of Wellington.

Fancying the look of him, and probably knowing guardsmen were famously easy, he offered him a sovereign and two shillings to go to the beach together and ‘commit an unnatural crime’.

Not much has changed.

A father tried burn to death his young son after learning he was gay, HIV positive and diagnosed with TB.

Forty-eight year-old Hitler Baneo Nuñez sprayed his son with gasoline and set him a light after getting tired from continual abuse by neighbors towards his son for being gay, revealed a recent report by the daily La Región.

A British man who set fire to three men, two in the garden of a gay pub, was detained indefinitely under the Mental Health Act yesterday (15 April).  

Mitchell Dean, 22, from Essex, torched two men Russell Banks and Robert Laszewski, 21 and 20 at the time, as they stood outside the Rainbow and Dove pub in Leicester, in October 2011.

Basildon Crown Court heard Dean was on the run from police after having set fire to a 20-year-old friend David Chaplin days earlier.

On the night, Dean walked into the pub holding a bottle of what looked like cider.

A former Philippines dictator forced his generals to perform a drag queen show during a birthday party, according to Wikileaks.

Ferdinand Marcos, who was in office from 1965 to 1986 and died in 1989, allegedly had a ‘two-day blast’ party in the early 70s.

US ambassador William Sullivan wrote a series of criticisms of the dictator and his wife Imelda Marcos in secret cables that have since been declassified, Agence France Presse reports.

Before gay porn star Wilfred Knight committed suicide earlier this month, he wrote a blog post with the title: 'My partner's life and death and its lesson: US Gay Marriage Must Pass on a Federal Level.'

That partner, an American citizen named Jerry Enriquez, had killed himself two weeks earlier in Canada. The couple had left Oregon to live in Canada because Knight, a French citizen, had a student US visa that had expired.

Chinese gay rights group Queer Comrades produced a video looking at significant events in the LGBT rights movement in China from September 2011 to August 2012.

The seven minute film uses news clips to show 10 events. These are:

A court appeals committee set a legal precedent, instructing Israel's defense ministry to  compensate a three year-old girl who lost her mother's female partner.

The court decision recognized yesterday (13 February) the late Faviola Bohadana, as the girl's step-parent, overruling a refusal by Israel's defines ministry.

The girl's biological mother, Rahel Algavassi, has been in a lesbian relationship with Bohadana for five years prior to her death during a large scale fire incident in December 2010.

A few months ago I was working on a business magazine for Condé Nast’s contract publishing division. Over a content planning lunch at Japanese restaurant Sumosan in London’s Mayfair, Darius Sanai - the considered and intellectually intimidating editor - quickly corrected me mid-pitch as I excitedly outlined article options: ‘No, no - we don’t use the word “pamper” or “pampering”, that is not what this magazine is about. Find another word.’