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.

Wanda Sykes was late arriving to the An Evening With Women benefit in Beverly Hills on Saturday because she spilled red wine on her blouse.

Then when she took the stage to perform some stand-up, she was jokingly irritated by everything from the smoke machine to the interpreter for the hearing impaired audience members.

Then the band scheduled to go on after her was tuning up behind the curtain of the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel while Sykes was on stage and she got really irritated - and it was no joke.

Kashish Mumbai International Queer Film Festival opens on Wednesday and will show 120 films from 30 countries over five days at two venues.

Highlights of the recently announced schedule include Rites of Passage, about an Indian woman in the US having gender realignment surgery, We Are Outsiders, about the traditional Indian Hijra (transgender) community and Family Khusreyan Di, a mainstream comedy in which a Hijra saves a village.

Clay Aiken didn't let coming in second on American Idol more than a decade ago stop him from going on to become one of the biggest stars ever to emerge from that reality show competition.

Still, the openly gay singer was hoping to finish first on NBC's Celebrity Apprentice after making it to the finals of Donald Trump's reality show and facing off against former talk show host Arsenio Hall.

'My mother's here tonight and she's already sat through me losing once,' Aiken told the live studio audience before Trump made his final decision.

Comedy duo Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie will reunite after 13 years for CGI animated film The Canterville Ghost, it was announced at the Cannes Film Festival.

Co-produced by the studio behind animated hits Gnomeo and Juliet and 9, Arch Productions and Fry’s own company, Sprout Productions, the film is a short story written by gay poet and playwright Oscar Wilde and was first published in 1887.

Barney Frank, the first openly gay member of the US House of Representatives, is getting married this summer but he will not be inviting the first president in history to endorse same-sex marriage to the ceremony.

The Massachusetts congressman is marrying his longtime partner Jim Ready and explains to C-SPAN why President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama did not make the guest list.

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.

Renowned Japanese actor and director Takeshi 'Beat' Kitano has raised eyebrows for comparing gay marriage to bestiality on national television.

Kitano enraged fellow guests and gay rights activists with the comparison, made after seeing footage of people celebrating President Obama’s recent gay marriage remarks on a popular current affairs show.

‘Obama supports gay marriage,’ said the 65-year-old best known for his yakuza gangster films. ‘You would support a marriage to an animal eventually, then.’

One of my favorite Oscar Wilde quotes is: ‘...the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.’

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.

Canadian singer Carly Rae Jepsen, famous for megahit Call Me Maybe, has spoken out for gay equality.

In the Call Me Maybe video, which has over 66 million hits on YouTube, the pop princess ends up losing the boy-next-door of her dreams to another guy.

During an interview with Time magazine, the Canadian Idol star admitted she did not think up the twist for her popular video.

The reportedly only LGBT political party in the world has attempted once again to win seats in the Filipino mid-term polls next May.

As Ang Ladlad filed its petition for accreditation yesterday (18 May), Danton Remoto, chair emeritus for the party-list group whose name means 'coming out', revealed he is also negotiating with two or three parties for a slot in their senatorial slate, reported the Inquirer News.