Hong Kong's Pink Alliance launches a video advocacy project today to raise public concern about students bullied because of their sexual orientation and gender identity.

Jokes are supposed to be funny. They always start with a set up and then build to a crescendo where the plot twists and the listener bursts out laughing. Last week a ‘joke’ went viral, but no one was left laughing.

Senior executives from companies including Google, Deutsche Bank and Microsoft are to attend a networking event about using LGBT diversity to drive their business.

The event is being hosted by law firm Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP in London on 20 March and the guestlist is strictly limited to decision makers from firms who employ over 1,000 people or whose annual turnover exceeds £500m and a handful of other key influencers.

Mamphela Ramphele, leader of South Africa's newest political party, Agang (Sotho for 'Build'), stated she fully backs LGBT rights and is dedicated to fight homophobia.

Ramphele, a revered anti apartheid activist, announced last week (18 February) on the formation of a new political party and called upon South Africans to 'join me on a journey to build the country of our dreams'.

A petition to the White House wants LGBT research included in a school climate survey.

According to We The People, an online government-run petition site, school climate surveys are paramount to understanding the environment in which students, including target groups like LGBT students, do or do not succeed.

The Franciscan University of Steubenville, a Catholic institution in Ohio, US, is likening homosexuality to rape, murder and prostitution, it has emerged.

Alumni of the university discovered the offending remarks when the looked at the description of a course called ‘SWK 314: Deviant Behavior’.

It reads: ‘Deviant Behavior focuses on the sociological theories of deviant behavior such as strain theory, differential association theory, labeling theory and phenomenological theory.

A large amount of British people are indifferent or even oblivious to the gay marriage issue, according to a poll published on Wednesday (22 August).

Influential Conservative peer Lord Ashcroft created the poll to dismiss claims Prime Minister David Cameron’s decision to push ahead with marriage equality would cost him votes at the next election.

According to the polling data, around 31% of respondents were opposed to gay marriage but within that third of the population only 12% said it would affect their vote.

Hackers have attacked the website of a Moscow court that sentenced the pro-gay punk band Pussy Riot.

The cyber activists defaced the site of Khamovnichesky District Court this morning (21 August) with slogans against Russian President Vladimir Putin, as well as posting a video of openly gay Bulgarian singer Aziz.

It's unclear why Aziz was chosen but the pop star is known for his lyrics about sex, money and luxury properties.

A new song by Pussy Riot called Putin is Lighting the Fires of the Revolution was also uploaded.

Cyber activists have hacked 73 official government websites in Sudan, including the president's, as they continue to demand LGBT people in Africa are given rights.

Sudan has one of the most severe laws regarding homosexuality. The judicial system is based on Shari'a law and according to Article 148, capital punishment applies should the offense be committed either by a man or a woman.

For gay men, lashes are given for the first offence, with the death penalty following the third offence.

Campaigners are calling on the UK government to ban so-called gay 'cures' ahead of a homophobic Christian group's British leg of a world tour.

Global LGBT rights group All Out has launched a petition to stop extremist religious organizations from using therapies which they claim can turn gay people straight.

The partisan divide over gay marriage continues to grow in the US with a new poll showing that 65% of Democrats now favor marriage equality while just 24% of Republicans do.

The numbers are from a survey of 2,973 adults taken between June 28 and July 9 conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life and the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.

The UK government has issued a warning over the summer holidays over the increased risk of young gay men and women being forced into marriage.

According to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, summer holidays are the peak time for young people to be taken overseas and forced into a marriage against their will. 

Between January and June 2012, of the 747 instances where the Forced Marriage Unit (FMU) gave advice or support related to a possible forced marriage, 10 involved victims who identified as LGBT, equating to around two a month.