Later this month, the Boy Scouts of America will be voting on a proposal to end its controversial ban on gay members.

This is good news to Jennifer Tyrrell and Zach Wahls, two unlikely activists who have found themselves at the forefront of the battle for LGBT equality in scouting.

But both tell Gay Star News in separate interviews that the battle will not truly be won until the ban ends for gay and lesbians 18 and over who want to serve.

A seven-year-old girl has written a poem for her transgender teacher who is believed to have killed herself.

Daisy Moreton read out the poem at a march celebrating the life of Lucy Meadows in Accrington in Lancashire, England.

It reads:

‘Makes you happy
in high spirits
smiles
said kind things

Several hundreds of pro and anti marriage equality protestors rallied to London's Trafalgar Square, this afternoon.

The anti-equality protest started today (24 March) at 2pm and was organized by the French La Manif Pour Tous (March For All) campaign group.

Over twenty young children were forced to stand at the base of Nelson’s Column, shouting ‘Uphold Marriage’ as well as anti-gay slurs and holding banners in the freezing cold against gay marriage.

Organizers claimed as many as 2,000 people participated in their protest against gay marriage.

Professional Mixed Martial Arts fighter Fallon Fox was at a party celebrating a victory on Saturday (2 March) when she got a phone call she had dreaded for years.

It was from a reporter who knew she is a transgender woman.

Words are like spells. There’s a power to them and they have different layers, different meanings, depending on who you are, how old you are. Language is constantly changing but we’re just not aware of it until we stop.

A gay political pundit has said there are closeted politicians who are planning to vote against marriage equality tomorrow (5 February).

Iain Dale, a former Conservative politician, has said while he does not believe in ‘outing’ anyone, he knows others who will take a different view of ‘rank hypocrisy’.

An Italian sex-symbol from the 1990s has been cleared of libel after she implied another actor was gay and in a relationship with his producer.

Sabrina Ferilli, who was a famous actress in the 1990s appearing on Italian TV, made the comments about fellow TV actor and former Celebrity Big Brother contestant Francesco Testi.

During an interview in 2012 she said: ‘Actor Francesco Testi and his producer are in a deep relationship.’

Testi, who had been acting in a film with Ferilli in the beginning of 2012, sued her for defamation.

Sheena McDonald, known by her stage name ‘Horse’, wed yesterday Alanna in Lanark, Scotland, a town from which she fled from for anti-gay bullying.

The singer left the town as a teenager because she suffered anti-gay abuse but now returned to perform a civil partnership ceremony with her love.

She told The Scottish Daily Record that the fact that she felt comfortable coming back to exchange vows proves attitudes have changed.

Two gay guys from Guédiawaye, a suburb of the capital Dakar, were brutally attacked by parents of one of the men, and outed by the media.

The two, who have been outed by the Senegalese media as Mouhamadou Lamine Ndour and Pape Diop, were making love at Ndour’s home when his parents suddenly returned and caught them at the act on Thrusday (27 December).

The parents reportedly brutally attacked and beat up the two men.

Ndour has not been seen since the incident by his family and has reportedly fled elsewhere.

Red Pepper, a Ugandan daily has published today (7 December) graphic photos allegedly depicting the head of the country’s prime football team ‘sodomising’ a young team player.

A photo depicting Chris Mubiru having anal sex with a young man covered the entire front page of the paper entitled: ‘SMOKED OUT! Uganda Cranes boss nabbed sodomising players – Shocking pictures inside’.

The paper printed five striking photos of the head of Cranes football team allegedly in the process of ‘sodomising’ a young team player.

A gay couple in Birmingham, England, claim they received death threats by a member of staff at a Greek restaurant where they were celebrating their wedding anniversary.

Police are investigating a complaint by 28-year-old Markus Busuttil and husband Steven, 24, who say an employee at Athens in the West Midlands city center hurled anti-gay abuse at them after a row started over the food.

The pair, who were marking one month since they married on 31 October, allegedly recorded the incident.

Police arrested veteran gay activist and human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell when he unfurled a West Papuan flag as the Indonesian president’s limousine departed Westminster Abbey, London.

Tatchell was wrestled to the ground by the president’s bodyguards and then arrested by Metropolitan Police officers, on Wednesday afternoon (31 October).