London LGBT+ Community Pride is the new Community Interest Company that’s been entrusted with managing Pride in London from this year until 2017. And we have a simple message to start with: if you want pride to continue, you need to get involved. It’s that simple – we need people to commit time, energy and money because we’re trying to organize in five months an event that normally takes a year!

Keeping up with the all the latest trends in style and fashion can be difficult.

As the world recovers from the normal excesses of Christmas and New Year’s celebrations, clothing retailers swing quickly into ‘Sale!’ mode in order to clear out the end of the season’s stock in ready for the shipments of what everyone will be wearing in the months to come.

The chairman of the Young Independents, a wing of the UKIP party, was fired after revealing his support for marriage equality.

Olly Neville, 20, took to Twitter late on 8 January claiming party authorities ‘insulted his intelligence’ on gay marriage.

The former leader then posted two screengrabs of emails from Stephen Crowther, chairman of the UK Independence Party, condemning him for his comments he made during an interview with the BBC on New Year’s Eve.

The Turkish government submitted a new draft regulation for the Turkish Armed Forces that retains the article ‘unnatural intercourse’ which has been used to stigmatize and punish LGBT people.

Turkish LGBT rights group accuses the government of colluding with the army to preserve anti-gay and trans measures.

As gay singer Frank Ocean finished off his 2012 with his debut album Channel Orange being nominated for several Grammys, it must have left him feeling pretty invincible.

Sadly, it didn’t begin well as he started off his 2013 by being busted for possessing marijuana.

The R&B star was pulled over for speeding through Mono County, California, in the early hours of New Year’s Day reportedly driving 90mph in a 65mph zone in his black BMW, TMZ reports.

A woman in a lesbian relationship has given birth to the first baby of the year in France.

The baby boy, named Sacha, was born on the morning of New Year’s Day between midnight and a minute past midnight at the Moulins Hospital Centre.

His birth mother Maude has been in a PACS civil union with her partner Delphine since 2010, according to France TV.

Chicago’s Catholic Cardinal Francis George has issued a letter stating that same-sex marriages are ‘a legal fiction’ and ‘unnatural’ - saying gay people must remain celibate or risk God’s love.

Pastors in Uganda, including a British man, have marked the New Year by demanding politicians speed up passage of the ‘kill the gays bill’.

Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill was widely expected to go before parliament before Christmas but was delayed. It further criminalizes homosexuality and even demands the death penalty for repeat ‘offenders’ among others.

Seven gay couples were married on the New Year’s first moments, in Maryland, with thousands of same-sex couples to follow, after the state legalized gay marriage.

The couples were pronounced lawfully married at half past midnight during a ceremony on New Year's Day (1 January 2013) in Baltimore's City Hall, the state's largest city.

Baltimore mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake officiated at the wedding of the first of the couples, 68-year-old James Scales and 60-year-old William Tasker.

The couple have been together for 35 years.

Coronation Street’s first lesbian character will find a new love in the New Year.

Sophie Webster, played by Brooke Vincent, has developed strong feelings in recent weeks for physiotherapist Jenna Kamara, played by Krissi Bohn.

In the long-running British soap, Webster has had her back brace removed and learns her appointments with her crush are soon coming to an end.

She will then a forward approach, admitting she has had feelings for her physiotherapist, and the two will kiss.

If you're looking for somewhere a little more exciting to spend New Year's Eve than your local boozer, then take a look at the celebrations the rest of the world has to offer.

There are concerts, fireworks and parties going on all over the world, each one with its own unique and exciting selling points.

In the first of a three part feature, Pam Ann gives us her pick of the best places to stay and to eat in Sydney – whether you are visiting for Mardi Gras or any time.

Hotels

Quay Grand Suites: If you want a view, and I mean a mo-fo view, this is the place to stay. The Quay Grand Suites are located right next to the Sydney Opera House, looking right onto the harbor and Sydney Harbour Bridge.