Gay Star News is joining forces with the UK capital's talented LGBT singers and musicians to make a video to mark International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO).

Our flashmob will be filmed on Saturday (11 May) so the video can be released on 17 May for IDAHO.

The London Gay Big Band and the London Gay Men’s Chorus will be headlining the event and providing the music. And we have teamed up with talented young video artists to make the film.

Internet star and comic Randy Rainbow 'calls'  out basketball player Jason Collins to remind him he's not the only gay man in the sports world.

Famous for his YouTube videos where he 'talks' to everyone from movie stars to politicians, Rainbow isn't happy the media spotlight is on Collins.

'What am I? Chopped liver,' Rainbow wonders while watching a news segment.

The anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church claims to like the LGBT rainbow home that is now across the street from them in Topeka, Kansas.

'We thank God for the Sodomite Rainbow House,' the church said in a statement today. 'It is right across the street from the ONLY church that loves people enough to tell them the Bible truth about the filthy, soul-damning, nation-destroying sin of sodomy...The Sodomite Rainbow house helps shing a bright spotlight on this!'

More than a year ago I had my photo taken wearing just a jacket and a Speedo on Rainbow Street in Amman, Jordan.

The photo was for MyKali, the digital magazine I front for LGBT people in Jordan. The theme of that edition was ‘summer stories’ and the shoot was titled ‘A very quirky summer’.

Hong-Kong-based TV station Phoenix TV has shortlisted a documentary about Chinese gay people and their mothers for an award.

Mama Rainbow directed by prolific LGBT filmmaker Fan Popo and produced by Chinese gay web channel Queer Comrades was chosen from 300 entries for the shortlist of 20 films now up for a public vote.

South Africa has become the first country in the world to recognize the rainbow flag as a national symbol.

South Africa’s Department of Arts and Culture, through its Bureau of Heraldry, announced the registry of the flag in the official Government Gazette this week following an application by the South African version of the rainbow flag’s designer, Eugene Brockman.

‘The Gay Flag of SA is now officially recognized and protected by the Department of Arts and Culture and the government of South Africa,” said Mava Mothiba, a spokesperson for the department.

Swedish and Ukrainian soccer fans delighted a lesbian activist by supporting her rainbow flag demonstration to show solidarity with Ukraine’s gay and trans population.

Human rights campaigners had raised concerns about the safety of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender fans attending the European Football Championships in Poland and Ukraine, which both have poor records on LGBT rights, and Amnesty International had even suggested gay fans should stay away.