Erza Miller, one of the stars of the acclaimed indie flick The Perks of Being a Wallflower, came out as 'queer' last year and explains why he used that word to describe himself instead of gay.

Mumbai traffic control has U-turned and decided to give Queer Azaadi Mumbai (Mumbai Pride) permission to march through the city on Saturday 2 February.

'We went in to see the Joint Commissioner of Police Traffic as a delegation, three gay men and two lesbian women,' march organizer Pallav Patankar told Gay Star News.

'We requested that he reconsider our application. He asked us to give him some time, so we went back yesterday and were surprised that we had received permission.'

Amy gets abuse from an AirCon repairman, and the team discuss the words Fag vs Queer.

We pop along to Tate Modern to talk with Timberlina about some upcoming Queer Art events and we get stuck into all the latest GayStarNews.

Yaariyan, the youth wing (ages 18 to 28) of Indian LGBT activists Humsafar Trust is running a queer photography competion open to everyone around the world.

Prizes will be awarded to the best image which highlights 'queer culture, passion, symbolism, uniqueness and diversity'.

Participants (over 18 only) can submit up to five photographs of a minimum of five mega-pixels each that have not been digitally altered beyong standard optimization.

A Chilean university professor is being criticized for using anti-gay slurs on his Facebook page.

Cristobal Orrego, professor of legal and political philosophy at Chile’s Catholic University, repeatedly used the Spanish-language equivalent of the word ‘faggot’ on the social networking site.

The comment accompanies a video about a debate held at the University Pedro De Valvidia on Chile’s anti-discrimination law. 

It’s a depressing thought, but to a certain extent TV defines who we are as a society. Is the increase of gay characters on TV shows in the West a reflection of greater tolerance? Or is society more tolerant because of Glee, Modern Family, Queer as Folk and The L Word?

In China, like many countries, gay characters are banned from state administered TV, film and radio. For five years Beijing-based website Queer Comrades has been getting around the censors and broadcasting talk shows, news, documentaries and fiction on LGBT-related topics.

Most of the cast of Showtime's Queer as Folk, the 2000-05 series about the lives and loves of a group of gay friends living in Pittsburgh, are gathering this week in Cologne, Germany for their first official reunion in seven years.

'Can't believe I am about to get on my flight to Germany for the first ever QAF Convention,' Peter Paige, who spent five seasons playing Emmett Honeycutt posted on Twitter Tuesday (5 June). 'Can't wait to meet the fans.'

Ahead of a film screening at Beijing LGBT center this Saturday, Gay Star News speaks to the director of a short film about Xiyadie ('The Siberian Butterfly'), who uses the traditional Chinese art of papercutting to express his sexuality.

The traditional Chinese folk art of paper cutting is not usually used to depict sexually explicit homoerotic images, but Beijing-based artist Xiyadie found a means of self-expression for his sexuality in the 1400-year-old art form.

India's most mainstream queer film festival, Kashish Mumbai International Queer Film Festival, is trying out the trend of social media generated crowd-funding for it's third festival.

Gay coal miners and female-to-male transgenders won the chance to be the subjects of documentaries at a LGBT film training course in Beijing this month. Eight participants, chosen from 29 applicants from all over China, took part in the week’s training.

Outraged protesters marched into the offices of a newspaper in Wellington, New Zealand, today, accusing the publication of transphobia.

The rally was organized by rights group The Queer Avengers after The Dominion Post printed columnist Rosemary McLeod's opinion piece 'Why I feel for the kids of ego-trippers'.

As the fourth Bangalore Queer Film Festival starts on Friday, Gay Star News interviews one of the organisers Poorva Rajaram. She tells us about the experimental short films, a Bollywood blockbuster with a transgender lead and an Indonesian trans superhero film that are on the schedule, and how Indian queer film festivals can benefit from corporate social responsibility.

How long has Bangalore Queer Film Festival been happening?