Over 150 LGBT people and their friends have braved homophobic and transphobic thugs to demand their rights at a protest in St Petersburg, Russia.

The protest for International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO) today (17 May) was in the city’s main park, Marsovo Pole.

Eight out of ten Northern Irish lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) people who experienced discrimination did not report it, a study from the Equalities Commission found.

Northern Ireland Equality Commission (NIEC) surveyed LGB people last year and found that half experienced discrimination, but only 20% reported it.

'We have already recognized the need to take special measures to address under-reporting of sexual orientation discrimination,' said equality commissioner Michael Wardlow, speaking at the start of Northern Ireland's Anti-Homophobia Week this week.

British mystery drama Jonathan Creek is being accused of transphobia.

The BBC series, which returned for an Easter special last night (1 April), featured a trans character.

During the episode, Creek played by Alan Davies referred to the character Jacqueline using male pronouns and made comments about her genitalia.

Jacqueline forgives Creek's crass comments, and later helps to solve the final piece of the puzzle.

A newly formed pressure group, Protest Transphobia, is to hold a peaceful protest against police transphobia, outside a London police station tomorrow.

The protest follows a incident revealed by Gay Star News, where Jose Dos Santos, a 49 year-old, transgender woman was allegedly mocked and handled with excessive force by the Metropolitan Police in Soho, the gay center of the UK capital, last week.

The Portuguese parliament approved a revision of the country’s criminal code which will ban discrimination and hate crime against transgender people.

This addition to the criminal code was approved unanimously, following a proposal by the Portuguese Socialist Party.

Hate crimes against trans people in Portugal have been recorded in the recent past, transphobic violence made headlines with the murder of Gisberta Salce Júnior in 2006.

However, gender identity was absent from hate crime legislation.

A transgender woman was allegedly attacked in Brighton on Sunday morning (18 November).

Police were called after the woman said she had been physically and verbally abused after a night out in the southern English seaside city, well known for its large gay community.

In a statement made to Gay Star News, a Sussex Police spokeswoman said: ‘Police were called after a woman and her friends were allegedly subjected to homophobic abuse from a balcony on King's Road, Brighton at around 2.05am.

The National Transgender Association (ANT) of France boycotted a meeting with the Minister for Women’s Rights following a dispute over payment of expenses to enable the group's provincial members to attend.

ANT were invited, alongside a number of other LGBT organisations to attend an 'informal meeting' which would set out the 'program of government actions against violence and discrimination committed because of sexual orientation and gender identity'.

As trade unions and community groups across Britain gear up for a national demonstration against the government’s austerity policies (in London on 20 October), I am preparing to speak tonight at a public meeting organized by Out Against Austerity.

I know it won’t be a large audience. An event that focused on similar issues, held during the Trades Union Congress’ (TUC) annual conference a couple of weeks ago, drew an audience of just 40 despite being in Brighton – a homeland for many of our communities.

A survey of 10 Chilean elementary schools revealed sexual discrimination in the classroom.

The survey conducted by Movilh Joven, the youth division of Chile's leading sexual minority organization Movilh, asked 250 students throughout the Santiago Metropolitan Region questions regarding the handling of sexual diversity in the classroom.

Conducted as a tool to help drive anti-discriminatory public policy, Movilh's survey found that: