Police in Kenya have stopped people marching through the capital Nairobi today (17 May) to mark International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO).

A permit had been issued to allow Kenyan LGBTs and supporters to procession.

But this morning police withdrew the permit just as the event was about to start on Freedom Corner, Uhuru Park.

Julie Jules, Out in Kenya community leader, told Gay Star News: ‘Basically the police stopped the procession because we would be seen to be "promoting homosexuality".

A Burmese migrant has spoken out about the homophobia he faced while living in a refugee camp in Thailand.

Writing for Thompson Reuters, Moses describes hearing anti-gay sermons from Christian preachers in Mae La camp close to the Burma-Thalland border. And it wasn't just the Christians.

An 18-year-old drag queen has sashayed her way to global fame on New Zealand’s version of The X Factor.

With a vivacious personality and a voice to back it up, Ashley Tonga impressed in her first audition.

Singing ‘Proud Mary’, she sold it all the way down the river and had the judges clamoring for more.

Looking at the 200,000 plus views in just two days, it’s clear that while she may not be the most polished singer, she’s a great entertainer.

New Zealand has shown recently it is no stranger to viral videos.

Paraguay’s leading presidential candidate, Horacio Cartes, made strong anti-gay slurs and vehemently rejected marriage equality, ahead of the country’s election this Sunday.

During a Radio interview, Cartes, said that if his 28-year-old son were to seek to marry another man he’d shoot himself ‘in the balls, because I do not agree’.

Chinese state media has not mentioned the wife of Iceland's prime minister Johanna Sigurdardottir during her official state visit.

Sigurdardottir is in Beijing for talks on a trade agreement between the most populous country in the world and the tiny island nation of 320,000 people. She is accompanied by her wife of 13 years Jonina Leosdottir, but China's media has not mentioned her by name or published photographs of her.

Zambian Government ministers have suggested that penalties for LGBT people may be increased following the arrest of human rights activist Paul Kasonkomona after he appeared on Zambian television to discuss gay rights.

Kasonkomona was arrested last Sunday directly after he appeared on Zambia’s MUVI television channel and was held for three nights before police charged him with being 'idle and disorderly in a public place.'

A gay couple in Singapore who took their government to court over a law that criminalizes sex between men have said the High Court judge's decision to uphold the ban is 'disheartening'.

'We are disappointed that the High Court ruled against us and upheld s377A,' said Gary Lim and Kenneth Chee in a statement.

'Having been together for 15 years, it is disheartening that we are criminals in the eyes of the law because of a segment of society that will not live and let live, but insist on pushing their version of religion and morality on us.'

It was another cold and grey day in London – almost snowing as I boarded the train from London Bridge to Gatwick airport.

I was flying to Luxembourg. There was no guarantee that it would be any warmer, but at least a change of scene and a chance to explore a city that I hadn’t been to.

A leading Estonian intellectual has called for the legal recognition of same-sex relationship and says it could even be useful to recognize non-sexual dependent relationships between heterosexual friends.

Chairman of the Estonian Writers’ Union and poet Karl Martin Sinijärv made the call in response to comments from IRL party MP Erki Nool that homosexuals should be avoided and given medical treatment.

Jonas Singa Kumie and Franky Djome, two men from Cameroon who were attacked and arrested for wearing female attire have been freed.

Their safety, however, remains at best precarious, reveals a report published today (28 March) by the 76 Crimes blog.

Albania is being called the most homophobic European country with 53% of participants are against homosexuality, according to a new survey published today (26 March).

The European Social Survey (ESS), established in 2001, intends to track the changing trends of social attitudes in European countries and is conducted every two years.

In Albania, it found 95% of participants said they had not lived with a partner before marriage.

A Paraguayan gay couple demands the right to register their marriage in their country.

Thirty-year old Simon Cazal and 20-year-old Sergio López were married last year in Argentina, the first Latin American country to approve nationwide gay marriage.

However, Paraguay has no laws for same-sex marriage or civil unions.

As part of their first year anniversary, the couple asked yesterday (22 March) a judge in Asunción, Paraguay’s capital, to order civil registry officials to record their marriage.