The mother of Filipina popstar and former Glee star Charice Pempengco, who came out as a lesbian last week, said that she used to be a lesbian too.

Raquel Pempengco said at at press conference in her home in Marikina City on Friday (7 June) that she used to have female lovers but her mother, Tess Relucio, pressurized her to marry a man and start a family.

Raquel and Ricky Pempengco ended-up separating and the couple's children, Charice and her brother Carl, were raised in their grandmother's house.

Krista Siegfrids may appear to be all sugar, sweetness, sunshine, but she is causing shockwaves.

Finland is used to sending ballad after ballad to the annual popfest extravaganza that is the Eurovision Song Contest.

They have broken the mold two times. The first, when they sent a band called Lordi wearing monster costumes and playing heavy rock, and now, when they have sent a pop princess fighting for equal marriage.

Mister Cee, a popular DJ at the New York City radio station Hot 97, was reportedly arrested last week for soliciting a male prostitute.

According to the website Rod 2.0 (who linked to a Daily News article), the 46 year-old allegedly approached an undercover police officer. Cee, whose legal name is Calvin LeBrun, will appear on the station's morning show tomorrow (6 April) to explain last week's events.

Five teen girls were the unwitting victims in a TV show’s stunt which saw them ‘convert to Islam’ in order to receive free Justin Bieber concert tickets.

On a Norwegian comedy show, the young fans were forced to remove their make-up, put on hijabs, and repeat ‘Justin Bieber is impure and probably gay’ in Arabic.

The show’s host Ann-Kat Haerland defended the show, saying: ‘We wanted to find out how far Norwegian “Beliebers” are willing to go for tickets to one of Bieber’s concert.

Last year Bobby Seven, 34, left his life in Britain to live on a beach in Thailand permanently, earning a living as a transformational tarot card reader, online and in person. He lives on Had Tien beach on Koh Phangnan island, next to hippy holiday resort The Sanctuary.

As part of a series on alternative gay lifestyles, Gay Star News asks him about his life and what messages he has for the gay community back home.

Did you feel you had a 'sixth sense' from a young age?

While NBC's The Voice has dominated Christina Aguilera's career in recent years, the singer is putting the focus more on her own music again these days with the release of her fifth studio album, Lotus.

She's had her career ups and downs but Aguilera has come to know that she can count on her LGBT fan base.

With vivid depictions of a transexual beauty pageant in Thailand, a gay nudist hotel in Bali, the ugly forefront of the fight against the HIV epidemic in Burma and a happy-clappy Sunday service at a ‘gay cure’ church in Malaysia, Adventures in Gaysia has more color than a Pride march in Mumbai. It’s also hilarious and serious.

Gay Star News talks to Australian magazine journalist and author Benjamin Law about the inspiration, the ups and downs and why there’s no need to take notes on penises.

Why did you decide to write this book?

Gay Australian pop icon Kylie Minogue has premiered her new music video today (25 September).

The ‘Can’t Get You Out Of My Head’ singer has released ‘Flower’ as the lead track from her upcoming celebration album The Abbey Road Sessions.

Minogue is offering the new song as a free download for fans who pre-order the album on iTunes.

Shot in black and white, it shows the singer getting in touch with nature as she walks through woods, and wades through water.

Gay pop icon Kylie Minogue is preparing to release a new single in September.

It was announced today (28 August) that the Australian, loved by gays and straights alike, will release a studio version of ‘Flower’.

The ‘Can’t Get You Out of My Head’ singer performed the ballad during her 2008 X tour but the song never made it onto the dance-heavy album.

Christina Aguilera’s long-awaited new single has been leaked online, and it seems the Dirrty singer has gone back to her old ways.

The single, Your Body, sees the Genie in a Bottle singer go for a club-inspired number with plenty of synth and steamy lyrics.

Posting the leaked demo version on his website, celebrity blogger Perez Hilton said: ‘WHOAHHH GIRL!!! There are some SEXplicit lyrics in this song…if we are hearing correctly!’

Gay pop singer Mika, who finally came out last week, has unveiled the music video for his comeback single Celebrate.

The song, which is a collaboration with hip-hop star Pharrell, is taken from his new album The Origin of Love.

In the video released today (10 August), Mika is seen suffering from a serious case of writers block.

After throwing a small forest's worth of musical scribblings on to the floor around him, he heads off into the night looking for inspiration at various parties and nightclubs.