The legendary Liza Minnelli has thrown her support behind marriage equality in California.

The Emmy, Oscar, Tony and Grammy award-winning Hollywood legend unveiled her portrait for the NOH8 campaign.

The photo-series created by Adam Bouska promotes gender and marriage equality through portraits of people with their mouths taped shut and NOH8 painted on their faces.

In addition to her portrait, Minnelli had a loving message for the LGBT community: ‘Here’s what I believe … no shame, no blame, no guilt.'

Gay British TV presenter, actor, author and brainbox Stephen Fry has made a video asking people to save other animals from the fate of the Lonely Dodo.

Fry, who presents British weird-fact TV quiz QI and starred in a biopic on Oscar Wilde, has teamed up with Oscar-winning studio Aardman, makers of the Wallace and Gromit films to make the short animation.

He narrates the story of the Lonely Dodo, voiced by stand-up comic Alistair McGowan.

Oscar winning actor Jeremy Irons wonders if gay marriage becoming legal would lead to marriages between a father and a son.

Irons insists he doesn't feel strongly about the issue one way or another but says he does have some concerns.

'Could a father not marry his son?' Irons asked during an interview with HuffPost Live.

There was a time not long ago that Brett Ratner would have been an unlikely choice to recieve the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation's Ally Award later this month in New York City.

The director of the Tower Heist and the Rush Hour franchise had resigned under pressure from producing the 2012 Oscars telecast due to the fallout from a gay slur he made during a film screening in Hollywood.

Ratner had been asked whether he rehearses with his actors before shooting a scene and replied, 'Rehearsing is for faggots.'

It would seem unlikely but it did happen.

During the opening portion of tonight's Oscar ceremony in Hollywood, the Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles was part of a fantasy musical number about, of all things, boobs.

It was performed by host Seth Macfarlane and called We Saw Your Boobs.

Macfarlane named actresses and the movies he has seen them topless in and included such names as Halle Berry, Naomi Watts, Nicole Kidman, Charlene Theron, and Anne Hathaway.

When Daniel-Day Lewis or Anne Hathaway walk off the stage on Sunday at the Academy Awards (is there anyone who thinks they won't win?), they will be clutching an Oscar in one hand and very likely a gold envelope in the other.

That envelope was designed by Marc Friedland.

Believe it or not, it was not until three years ago that the Academy began using its own specially-designed envelope for presenters to pull a name out of and announce: 'And the Oscar goes to ...' '

The Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association on Wednesday (16 January) announced the winners of the group's annual Dorian Awards which honor the best in film and television of 2012.

Argo, which has gained Oscar momentum after Golden Globe and Critics Choice Award wins, was voted Film of the Year by GALECA. Oscar front-runners Daniel Day-Lewis and Anne Hathaway won the Performance of the Year prizes for Lincoln and Les Miserables, respectively.

While such best picture nominees as Lincoln, Silver Linings Playbook and Life of Pi dominate the major categories of Academy Award nominations announced this morning (10 January), LGBT movie fans had particular reason to cheer with the AIDS documentary How to Survive a Plague getting a nod in the documentary category.

The movie, directed by David France, tells the story of AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) and gives viewers a front-row seat to the epic day-to-day battles that ultimately resulted in AIDS no longer being a death sentence.

Gay British actor Rupert Everett said writer Oscar Wilde, who died in disgrace in Paris in 1900, is his personal Jesus during an interview broadcast on the BBC yesterday.

'He fills me with the same compassion that Jesus fills other people with,' said Everett, who is is currently playing Wilde in the David Hare play The Judas Kiss.

'As a gay person he's really the beginning of the gay movement in public,' said Everett to interviewer Andrew Marr.

Oscar winning director Steven Soderbergh said Friday (4 January)  that he was 'stunned' when every single major Hollywood studio passed on making his movie Behind the Candelabra which will air on HBO this spring.

The movie tells the story of the flamboyant star Liberace and his relationship with a much younger man named Scott Thorson.

'They said it was too gay,' Soderbergh told Gay Star News and other outlets during the annual Television Critics Association winter press tour in Pasadena.

Tammy Lynn Michaels has, once again, gone public with her frustrations over support payments from ex Melissa Etheridge.

Michaels, who starred in the cult TV hit Popular more than a decade ago, has cast Etheridge as a Christmas grinch in a poem she has posted on her blog about not getting her support check in the mail.

While the story of slain gay rights activist Harvey Milk got its widest exposure through the 2008 feature film for which Sean Penn won an Oscar, it was an acclaimed 1984 documentary that first told his story on the screen.

On Wednesday (19 December), it was announced that the documentary, The Times of Harvey Milk, was among the 25 films chosen by the US Library Of Congress for preservation in its National Film Registry.