Stephen Amell stars as crime fighting superhero Oliver Queen in the new CW series Arrow this fall, his first time as the lead in a primetime series.

But it's hardly his first television role.

The handsome actor recalls that his very first acting job was on Showtime's Queer as Folk in 2004. He appeared in three episodes as a spinning instructor.

While his Queer as Folk love interest Gale Harold has established a successful career on television in recent years, Randy Harrison has quietly been carving out a career on the stage.

But it's a career so low profile that when being interviewed for Out.com about his role in SILENCE! The Musical, Harrison was asked if he was making his Off-Broadway debut.

A photo of a man's bulging pants has been pulled from the latest campaign of Australia's Gold Coast tourism board because it didn't want its bid to attract more gay travelers 'reduced to a crotch shot'.

Gold Coast Tourism (GCT) were using the close-up of a man in tight white swim shorts, with the tagline ‘Check out our impressive packages’, to promote the area as a destination for the LGBT community.

Latino superstar Jennifer Lopez is developing a lesbian themed family television drama, and according to reports she may also star in the series.

The untitled series will focus on two overworked mothers, a police officer and a private school teacher, who have a biological son and two adopted kids.

Their lives are turned upside down when a wayward teenage girl comes to live with them in the pilot.

Gay marriage is supported by the majority of young people in Malta, a survey has revealed.

The poll by the MaltaToday news website, found that 60% of 18 to 34 year olds were in favor of same-sex marriage.

However, only 23% of over 55s agreed and overall 51.2% of those questioned were in opposition.

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.'

Editor of gay magazine Attitude, Matthew Todd, says the church should be 'begging for forgiveness' over its persecution of gay people.

In his blog on the Huffington Post website, Todd slams the church for 'ruining' the lives of countless gay men and women.

A school assembly in the US has sparked outrage after a Christian hate group launched into a homophobic attack against Elton John and Lady Gaga.

Students at Dunkerton High School in Iowa were stunned after a performance from Christian rock band Junkyard Prophet turned into an anti-gay rant by drummer and preacher Bradlee Dean.

After separating the crowd into boys, girls and teachers, Dean, who is the president of the You Can Run But You Cannot Hide ministry, began blasting gay pop icons, including Elton John and Lady Gaga.

Last week's winter finale of Glee tackled the subject of gay teen suicide when a closeted football player is outed then bullied and tries to kill himself.

The character of Dave Karofsky (played by Max Adler) is a former bully himself who channeled his own self-loathing by tormenting one of the school's most openly gay students, Kurt Hummel (Chris Colfer). It is Kurt who is there for Karofsky and when he visits his former bully in the hospital, helps him imagine his future.

It wasn't until after his runner-up finish on American Idol in 2009 that Adam Lambert officially came out to the world on the cover of Rolling Stone.

Neither Lambert or any other contestant on the show had been openly gay during the show which just launched its 12th season this week.

But NBC's The Voice had four openly gay contestants during its first season and was nominated for a GLAAD Media Award on Thursday (19 January) for outstanding reality show.