Hindsight is a beautiful thing. As I sat chatting with relationship counsellor Nicholas Rose, slurping on black coffee in London’s leafy suburban Chiswick, I couldn’t help wishing that I had been researching this story in my early 20s - but then I guess I wouldn’t have had the experience of numerous failed relationships to make me fully appreciate the pearls of wisdom that Rose was sharing.

Darnell Young's mother gave him a stun gun for protection at school in Indiana, USA after months of bullying.

Now, Young faces expulsion for firing the stun gun in the air when he was surrounded and taunted by fellow students on campus last month.

Young's mother Chelisa Grimes said in a CNN interview yesterday: 'I do not promote violence- not at all- but what is a parent to do when she has done everything that she felt was supposed to do? I did feel like there was nothing else left for me to do, but protect my child.'

Singer and actress Aubrey O'Day seemed expecially proud of winning a challenge on NBC's Celebrity Apprentice Sunday because it meant she was able to present a check of $50,000 to the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network.

GLSEN is an is an organization that seeks to end discrimination, harassment, and bullying based on sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.

Members of the European Parliament's Intergroup on LGBT Rights have called for an inquiry into a new Hungarian law on religion.

The new law says 'since church institutions are ideologically committed', they may determine their own conditions of employment or termination to maintain their specific identity.

Members of the Intergroup, including chairs Michael Cashman and Ulrike Lunacek, questioned the law's compatibility with the European Commission's non-discrimination standards.

LGBT people of all faiths and none will gather in London this weekend to unravel the confusion on equal marriage.

Cutting Edge Consortium, a group that calls on religious and non-religious people to eliminate faith-based homophobia and transphobia, will host their third national conference on Saturday (21 April) at Conway Hall in Camden, London. It will run from 9am to 5pm.

The event is titled ‘LGBT Lives – Achieving our Equality: Challenging Faith-Based Homophobia and Transphobia’ will feature a range of workshops and speakers.

Kathy Griffin has spoken out against bullying in a public service announcement inspired by the documentary Bully.

The gay friendly comic created the PSA in response to the film that explores children’s stories as they face being bullied every day.

The film released tomorrow (30 March) in select US cinemas has drawn controversy over the Motion Picture Association of America’s initial decision to award it an ‘R’ rating, meaning people under 17 years old must be accompanied by an adult to see it.

A state hearing officer in Michigan ruled on Tuesday (27 March) that Andrew Shirvell, a one-time assistant attorney general for the state, was justly fired in 2010 for his harassment of a gay student leader.

William Hutchens of the Michigan Civil Service Commission said Shirvell engaged in 'hate speech' on a blog and 'physical and mental harassment' of then University of Michigan Student Body President Christopher Armstrong.

An Irish LGBT youth organization called BeLonG To has snagged a famous Irishman to help in its campaign against the bullying of gay kids: movie star Colin Farrell.

The group has launched Stand Up! Don’t Stand for Homophobic Bullying Campaign which calls on everyone, gay and straight, to support each other in taking a stand against homophobic bullying.  

The election of a trans woman as chair of a university student council in the Philippines gives hope to LGBT people in mainstream politics.

Heart Diño was yesterday appointed chair of the student council at the University of the Philippines after gaining 3,290 votes and is the first transgender person to hold that post in the college's history.

LGBT political party Ladlad hailed the election of Diño and hopes it will signal a change in the country's mainstream politics.

I was feeling a little nervous – Ben Cohen, rugby legend and chairman of the StandUp Foundation, was scheduled to call me at 9:30am.

It was 9.27. I sat staring at my phone. ‘What if he doesn’t call? Should I get a glass of water? Maybe I should change my shirt?’

Punk rock band Killing Joke has issued a statement making it clear they are not homophobic and disputing past statements credited to them.

Gay Star News highlighted concerns about their new British concert tour earlier today, given quotes attributed to the band which appeared to be homophobic.

However, the band’s management has distanced them from the remarks and implied the original reports may have misreported the comments or taken the remarks out of context.