Video of a North Carolina preacher advocating that all gays and lesbians confined by an electric fence until they die off surfaced online Monday (21 May).

Charles L. Worley, pastor of Providence Road Baptist Church in Maiden, North Carolina, delivered the sermon on May 13 slamming President Barack Obama's endorsement of same-sex marriage.

Darwin in Australia's Northern Territory has been chosen as the host city for the third Asia Pacific Outgames in 2014.

A delegation from the Gay and Lesbian International Sports Association – Asia Pacific (GLISA-AP) visited Darwin last month (April 2012) to view the sporting and conference facilities and met with politicians, government officials, tourist operators and members of the local GLBT community.

The group said it was impressed with the range of 'first-class' facilities and support from the community for the games, which will run from 10 May to 16 May.

An anti-gay 'propaganda' bill, similar to the one passed in St Petersburg, has been proposed in the Ukraine.

The bill, which was recommended to the country's parliament by the Committee on Freedom of Expression and Information, would amend existing laws on ‘the protection of morals’, media and publishing, as well as the criminal code, effectively banning virtually all information on gay and bisexual issues and criminalizing LGBT human rights work in Ukraine.

The only LGBT health agency in the Australian state of Queensland is ‘putting out an international distress call’ following the news that the state’s new LNP (conservative) government is cutting its funding.

Health minister Lawrence Springborg said the cut in funds was in response to an increase in HIV prevalence in the state and what he said was a failure in public health policy.

A Canadian Muslim gay activist launched the Malay version of her controversial book on liberal Islam in Malaysia, despite official efforts to ban all her public events.

Irshad Manji and her local publisher ZI Publications eventually managed to pulled off the launch for ‘Allah, Liberty and Love’ (Allah, Kebebasan dan Cinta in Malay) in front of a 50-odd crowd yesterday (19 May), after two other venues pulled out of hosting her.

Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) has launched a diversity week with a showing of transgender art.

Front line workers and managers will attend workshops and seminars in an effort to spread equality and tolerance in the NHS.

Examples of events include NHS Rotherham which will host an exhibition of transgender photography, promising to ‘celebrate the lives of transgender staff and patients’.

Last night (19 May) New York City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn married her long term partner Kim M. Catullo.

The wedding was attended by a number of high-ranking New York politicians, including Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, New York’s two senators, Kirsten Gillibrand and Charles Schumer, and  Raymond Kelly, the city's police commissioner.

This week the Justice Department published its new guidelines to put into place the Prison Rape Elimination Act (signed into law by then President George W. Bush). As reported by Think Progress, there are important protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and gender non-conforming inmates.

First it was JC Penney, then Urban Outfitters then JC Penney again.

Now the anti-gay group OneMillionMoms, a subgroup of American Family Association, as another retailer in its sights: The Gap.

President Barack Obama's marriage rights annoucment is having a ripple effect with black politicians and organizations. The oldest civil rights oganization in the US, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said today (19 May) that its board of directors voted to support marriage equality.

The 106-year-old transgender woman who addressed the first ever public gay rights rally in Burma must have seen incredible changes in her lifetime, from living under British colonialism to Burmese independence to military rule to the recent opening up.

At the first celebration of IDAHO (International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia) in the Burmese capital Rangoon yesterday, a local youth brought the centenarian transgender woman to the stage during a section called Paying Respect to Seniors.

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, widely considered to be a possible vice presidential pick for presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney, spoke out on Thursday (17 May) against President Barack Obama's recent endorsement of gay marriage.

'He did it for political reasons because he doesn't want to talk about the economy.' Rubio said in an interview with FOX Business Network. '... He doesn't want that to be what this election is about. And so it's not just on gay marriage, I think every week he'll roll out another issue to distract from it.'