With a single lesbian kiss, Finland has made history by fighting for equal marriage at the Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo, Sweden.

Krista Siegfrids, who sang ‘Marry Me’, ended her semi-final performance by kissing one of her female dancers.

It is the first time there has ever been a gay kiss on a Eurovision stage in its 59-year history.

Speaking to Gay Star News in Malmo, she told critics her kiss was about spreading love and not politics. Political gestures or lyrics are strictly forbidden under Eurovision rules.

Data from the US National Surveys of Family Growth appears to show that American gay men have become less promiscuous over the decade that same-sex marriages first began to become available to them.

Researchers compared data from gay men aged between 15 and 44 who took part in the National Surveys of Family Growth in 2002 to those who took part between 2006 and 2010 and found a statistically meaningful drop in the numbers of sexual partners they reported having in the last year.

After the news broke Monday (29 April) that NBA player Jason Collins had come out publicly as a gay man, ESPN sportswriter Chris Broussard made a little news of his own.

Speaking on the program Between the Lines, Broussard equated homosexuality with sin.

A father tried burn to death his young son after learning he was gay, HIV positive and diagnosed with TB.

Forty-eight year-old Hitler Baneo Nuñez sprayed his son with gasoline and set him a light after getting tired from continual abuse by neighbors towards his son for being gay, revealed a recent report by the daily La Región.

Senegalese Islamic NGO Jamra has announced plans for the creation of a national monitoring group to oppose secularism and the decriminalization of homosexuality in the West African nation.

Jamra president Imam Massamba Diop told Dakaractu.com that he planned to form a coalition with like-minded groups, including Senegalese Christian groups to ‘block the way’ for any attempt to decriminalize homosexuality.

Croatia’s first openly gay politician has reaffirmed his commitment to legalizing same-sex unions.

Damir Hrsak, who recently declared his homosexuality in an interview, also announced his run for European Parliament as Croatia prepares to join the European Union on 1 July.

In a translated interview with news website Jutarnji, Hrsak said: ‘The LGBT population is just one of the discriminated communities in Croatia. I believe that communities who care about human and animal rights will recognize my efforts in the fight against discrimination’.

A 23 year-old man is speaking out publicly after winning a £25,000 (€30,000) lawsuit alleging that Wakefield Council refused to save him from abuse by his adoptive gay parents.

Andy Cannon spoke with the Telegraph about why he thinks Wakefield social services refused to help him, even after he filed numerous complaints against his adoptive parents for abuse over many years.

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie on Friday (22 March) sought to make clear that he does not endorse controversial gay conversion therapy.

A bill is currently working its way through the state legislature that would ban the practice of attempting to convert gay persons into living a straight lifestyle.

Your sexuality can be revealed by what you choose to ‘like’ on Facebook, a new study suggests.

Researchers at Cambridge University have used algorithms to predict religion, politics, race and sexual orientation.

Using the algorithms, published in the journal PNAS, proved 88% accurate for determining if a man was gay or not.

It was also 95% accurate in distinguishing African-American from Caucasian-American and 85% for differentiating Republican from Democrat.

Vatican officials are sweating over claims it has splashed out millions on an Italian apartment block above ‘Europe’s largest gay sauna’.

As 115 cardinals prepare to elect a new Pope, Italian newspaper La Repubblica has claimed the Vatican spent €23m ($30m) on the building.

The apartments provide accommodation for 15 priests, with Indian Cardinal Ivan Dias, 76, currently residing in a plush 12-room pad on the first floor.

‘Italy’s best known gay sauna in the premises is an embarrassment,’ La Repubblica said on its front page.

A London vicar has said ‘people can be cured from being gay’.

Reverend Steven Hanna, from St Elisabeth’s of Becontree, in Dagenham, made the remarks after he signed a letter with local church leaders protesting marriage equality.

‘I am not saying that being gay is a sin. I am saying gay practice is a sin and gay marriage is a sin,’ the Church of England vicar told the Barking and Dagenham Post.

Barronelle Stuzman, the owner of Arlene's Flower Shop in Richland, Washington refused to provide flowers for the wedding of Robert Ingersoll and his partner, Curt Freed.

The couple planned to use Arlene's Flowers as their florist for their planned wedding in September, being loyal customers, buying flowers from the shop during the entire nine-years they have been together.

They were shocked when Stutzman, turned them away because of their sexuality.