Georgia’s Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs has been arrested for illegally circulating private video footage online.

The content in question is a gay sex tape allegedly involving prominent journalist Giorgi Paresashvili. 

Paresashvili held a press conference on 4 May, the day after the video footage went viral, saying that the footage was ‘fabricated’ because he was conducting a corruption investigation into Khvedelidze and two other government officials.

Khvedelidze has admitted to circulating the private footage on the Internet.

The hearing of a psychiatrist accused of using 'gay cures' to treat people in Northern Ireland was suspended on Friday (19 April). 

Doctor Paul Miller's case, which was to see whether he is fit to practise, was already going to be heard in private.

'The MPTS panel hearing the case of Dr Paul Miller has agreed to an application to adjourn the case,' the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service said.

'It will be re-listed and heard by a new panel at a future date.'

A publicly funded Islamic school in Canada risks losing funding over a religious leader’s comments likening being gay to having cancer or AIDS.

Religious leader Mustafa Khattab sent an email to Canadian news channel CBC news saying that comments he made in a lecture for students from Edmonton Islamic Academy were taken out of context.

Last fall, a video posted to YouTube showed Khattab saying: ‘Personally, I do not like to be associated with this [homosexuality].’

‘For me someone who is homosexual is like someone who has diabetes, cancer or AIDS.

The hearing of a ‘gay cure’ therapist scheduled later this month is to deviate from convention and be held in secret.

A number of complaints have been made to the General Medical Council (GMC) regarding the ‘gay conversion therapy’ techniques practiced by the Belfast-based Dr Paul Miller.

In May 2011, London-based journalist Patrick Strudwick complained to the GMC after receiving what he deemed to be ‘inappropriate’ treatment’ from Miller. 

British gay comic Julian Clary has described how he feared for his life after being set on fire at school by bullies.

Speaking to OK! Magazine, the 53-year-old remembered how one bully set fire to his nylon coat in a 'terrifying' attack on a school bus.

Although he was unharmed, Clary says the attack was 'completely unprovoked' which scared him even more.

Too terrified to tell anyone, Clary kept quiet about his experience in case he lost the free place he was given at the expensive private school after passing an exam.

A famous Nigerian pastor has compared homosexuality to bestiality and incest saying it was 'demonic' and 'disfigures' God's glory.

The pastor, Wole Oladiyun, of Christ Livingspring Apostolic Ministry (CLAM), also equated gay sex with prostitution, adultery and fornication and said oral sex dishonours people, 'unhygienic and dirty'.

While Kristin Chenoweth is as Christian as they come, that does not mean she’s anti-gay.

In fact, this LGBT ally believes people who use the Bible for hate is the complete opposite of what Jesus taught.

While many know Chenoweth from television appearances in shows such as Glee, The West Wing and Pushing Daisies, this sweet-as-apple-pie actress is a singer at heart.

She originated the role of Glinda the Good Witch in Wicked, a musical celebrating its tenth anniversary this year.

A parliamentary select committee in New Zealand has recommended that a bill proposing to legalize same-sex marriage be passed into law - with one caveat - that no religious leader be obliged to marry a couple if it is against their beliefs.

A public order court in Khartoum, Sudan has begun deliberating a case of nine men who were arrested and beaten for being gay.

According to LGBT rights activists in Sudan, a private gathering of gay friends at a well-known singer’s flat was raided. Those attending were arrested and beaten by Sudanese police, leaving them badly bruised.

In the first court hearing police stated that a flat in Al-Safia neighborhood, in Khartoum, was raided after neighbors spotted and were ‘angered’ by the attire of the men.

The British gay play producer who was deported from Uganda for being ‘undesirable’ has said the majority of Africans are not homophobic.

David Cecil was originally arrested in September last year after the play, which tells the story of a gay businessman murdered by his colleagues, was performed in private theaters. The charges were later dropped.

On 6 February, Cecil was rearrested and locked up for five days before being deported to the UK.

Pepperdine University, an independent and private college affiliated with the Churches of Christ, is surprisingly now offering an LGBT scholarship.

The school, located in Malibu, California, has introduced the Frank James 'Buddy' Vinci and George B. Ellsworth Scholarship whose recipients need to demonstrate a commitment to the betterment of the LGBT community.

The scholarship's criteria puts an emphasis on actual service, volunteerism, or extra curricular activities.