Gentlemen start your engines, and let the best woman win, because Oxford is preparing for the summer Pride event with a drag race.

On Saturday 19 May, men will don high heels and women will grab their loafers to take part in a community event happening in the British city.

This is Oxford’s second annual drag race, which raises vital funds for the main Pride event happening in five weeks on 16 June.

A ten-year anniversary performance of hit West End musical We Will Rock You will feature a visitation from the star who wrote a half the hits in the ‘jukebox musical’.

Queen guitarist and vocalist Brian May said that his late band-mate Freddie Mercury will ‘appear’ at the special performance.

Moves towards gay marriage in England and Wales have been making big headlines but many south of the border don’t realize that Scotland has been having it’s own battle on the issue and is actually leading the way.

The Queen did not mention gay marriage once in the state opening of UK parliament today, sparking disappointment among LGBT rights groups.

In a speech hailing the importance of family and uniting in a time of austerity and difficult times, Queen Elizabeth II’s state opening of parliament focused on fiscal issues.

As part of the same sweeping reforms as modernising the House of Lords, it was expected by human rights groups the Queen would discuss gay marriage.

Grandparents, activists and politicians have produced videos to say why they are ‘coming out’ for marriage.

It’s the first step by a new campaign, Out4Marriage, which aims to support proposals to change the law to allow gay marriage in the UK.

It’s hoped the campaign will go viral, with the public producing their own videos, and that it will also support moves towards gay marriage in other countries which are considering it, like the US and Australia.

Las Vegas is opening what owners claim will be the United States' first bar and gaming venue staffed solely by drag queens tomorrow (5 May).

Glamour will be taking centre stage as the bar Drink & Drag opens in the Nevada gambling capital employing over 24 full-time drag artistes.

It is set to become the largest employer of drag queens in the US.

The 22,000-square-foot venue is the brainchild of leading US nightclub Krave.

It will feature 12 bowling lanes, billiards and a 100-inch projector HD console lit by jewel-encrusted chandeliers.

Gay Londoners will mark the Queen's Jubilee weekend by celebrating the launch of one of the city's biggest festivals, Summer Rites.

Summer Fusion will be held on 3 June from 10pm to 8am at Invicta Plaza, South Bank.

Clubbers can choose from four major dance tents where hosts will include some of the British capital's biggest club names: Salvation, Fusion, XXL, Tranny Shack and East Bloc.

The event will be followed by the Summer Rites festival which will return to Shoreditch Park on Sunday 2 September from 12 to 10pm.

A Filipina former beauty queen who tweeted 'Homosexuality is not a sin but it is a lie from the devil' has apologised to the LGBT community.

Miriam Quiambao, who is Christian, tweeted last night: 'I'm sorry LGBT. Perhaps I was too harsh with the words I used. Will do my best to be more sensitive. #respect #nobodysperfect #grace'.

Freddie Mercury, the gay frontman of legendary rock group Queen, will live again on Sunday (22 April) and will be running the London Marathon complete with a vacuum cleaner.

Ben Hickman is dressing up as Mercury, the Queen singer who died of AIDS-related bronchopneumonia just over two decades ago, to run the marathon.

And he’ll be raising money for British gay-run HIV and sexual health charity Terrence Higgins Trust (THT).

Standing at 7’2” in 7” heels, Nancy Clench is Scotland’s self-proclaimed biggest drag queen – literally. Now she is embarking on a tour of the UK.

Known for her eclectic approach to shows, with music, jokes, dancing and DJing, she is planning to perform around the UK later this year.

As well as residencies in Glasgow night clubs Speakeasy and the Polo Lounge, the largest gay venue in Scotland, Nancy has already performed in cities across England. Now she’s preparing for her biggest shows ever.

A gay beauty queen from the Philippines is the latest to oppose the inclusion of transgender women in the Miss Universe contest.

Eriz Lanseta, winner of the Miss Gay Philippines Universe pageant last March, said only 'real women' who can bear children and agive birth should be allowed to compete in the international competition.