Smartphone application Comixology has admitted to banning a comic containing images of gay sex as they were confused over Apple’s policies.

The app, which many iPhone and iPad users use to read their favorite comic books, admitted responsibility yesterday (10 April).

SAGA #12, created by Brian K Vaughan and Fiona Staples, showed a character named Prince Robot IV with a TV screen for a head showing two small images of gay pornography in its opening pages.

Apple has banned a comic for containing images of gay sex. Earlier issues, which showed explicit straight sex, are still available.

The new issue of SAGA, by Brian K Vaughn and Fiona Staples, shows a character named Prince Robot IV with a TV screen for a head showing two small images of gay pornography.

The acclaimed series’ 12th issue will not be available through the iOS Comixology app or on iPhones or iPads.

Vaughn said: ‘As has hopefully been clear from the first page of our first issue, SAGA is a series for the proverbial “mature reader”.

Cardinal Keith O’Brien had a long-standing sexual relationship with a man while he was the leader of Scotland’s Catholic Church.

The man, who left the priesthood in the middle of the last decade, confessed to the relationship after complaints of sexual misconduct from other priests had been revealed.

An allegedly gay Saudi Arabian prince jailed for life for murdering his manservant was flown home to serve the rest of his sentence on Monday (18 March).

Prince Saud bin Abdulaziz bin Nasir al Saud flew to Saudi Arabia after spending less than three years in a British jail.

The 36-year-old was convicted in 2010 of murdering Bandar Abdulaziz in a London hotel after weeks of attacks.

Prince Harry has once again shown his goodwill toward the LGBT community.

The British royal gave a good-natured response after being approached by a male admirer at a London venue Friday night.

According to Vinenco Ianiello, who claims that he gave Prince Harry his phone number on Friday, Prince Harry ‘promised he’ll call me if he changes his mind about women. Or men’.

As I celebrate Black History Month I’d like to recognize one of my indigenous West African ancestral religions that's not homophobic – even if some of the practitioners are.

To the disbelief of many – it's Voodoo (also sometimes called Vodou, Vodoun or Vodun).

Haitian Voodoo is an ancestral folk religion whose tenets have always been queer-friendly, accepting people of all sexual orientations and gender expressions.

An allegedly gay Saudi Arabian prince is facing a lifetime in jail for killing his manservant in London.

In 2010, a London high court jailed Prince Saud bin Abdulaziz Bin Nasir, a grandson of Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah II, for killing Bandar Abdullah Abdulaziz in a five-star hotel.

Yesterday (5 February), government sources have confirmed Chris Grayling, the UK Justice Secretary, has approved the prince’s transfer to a jail in Saudi Arabia.

A UK member of parliament wants to change the law to allow the children of gay couples to be recognized as the heir to the throne.

Labour MP Paul Flynn is wishing to amend a bill which ensures the first child of Prince William and Catherine, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, will rule as monarch regardless of whether they are a boy or girl.

He is hoping to amend the legislation to allow their children to be a king or queen, and still be openly gay.

In 2012, gay people and their rights have made international headlines like never before.

From Frank Ocean and Anderson Cooper coming out as gay to the ongoing homophobic saga of Chick-fil-A, gay rights issues have come to the forefront.

We have had a look at the year and found the most important, shocking, hilarious and weird stories, and this is the best of the best from the second third of the year from May to August.

Following Ghana´s electoral campaign riddled with anti-gay hate, Prince K. MacDonald, a leading Human and LGBT rights advocate in the country, writing under a pseudonym, outlines a critical response.

Homosexuality is not western and evil like most Ghanaians perceive it. I feel insulted when someone tells me my sexuality is borrowed or western.

Dr. Ravi Perry and Paris Prince are the first gay couple featured in the weddings section of Jet magazine, the popular African-American bi-weekly publication.

'Jet's publishing of our union is historic,' the couple said of their inclusion in the magazine's issue published 10 December.

Perry is an assistant professor of political science at Mississippi State University and Prince is a licensed real estate broker and anti-discrimination compliance expert. They were married in August at their home in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Prince Harry may be the British royal family's bad boy, but appearing half-naked at a London gay bar was not what we were expecting.

Wishful thinking aside, the 28-year-old prince has actually been immortalised in a huge lifelike mural painted at a Soho club.

Currently on duty in Afghanistan, the blue-blooded hunk became a hit with gay people after he supported human rights causes.

Club director Chris Amos said: 'It probably began when we started seeing him in his army uniform.

'He's a real man. He's cheeky and sexy but he's also decent.