West Ham United’s Matt Jarvis has become only the third professional footballer to appear on the cover of Attitude magazine.

David Beckham was the first professional player to do so in 2002, followed by Freddie Ljungberg in 2006.

In its January issue, Jarvis tells the magazine that today’s football community is not homophobic and would accept gay professional players.

When asked if players should come out, Jarvis told Attitude, ‘Yeah, of course.’

A young woman was beaten so badly in Alabama on Thanksgiving Day (22 November), allegedly by her girlfriend's brother, that she will require reconstructive surgery on her face.

Mallory Owens, 23, is being treated at USA Medical Center in Mobile, Alabama, for injuries to her face.

Three times between the months of March and May, Jordan Addison's car was vandalized while parked in a lot at Radford University in Virginia and a fourth time while it was parked in front of his home.

Openly gay, it didn't take him long to figure out the reason why the vandals kept striking and eventually caused $2,500 worth of damage.

Australian country singer Beccy Cole will come out publicly as a lesbian for the first time in televised interview tonight.

Cole was interviewed with her two country singer friends, Kasey Chambers and Gina Jeffreys, for Australian Story, a regular program on national TV channel ABC.

‘I think for years Beccy has had this secret, that she really does want people to know about but didn’t really know when was the right time and how to do it too,’ Jeffreys says on the program.

Thousands of LGBT Costa Ricans and their supporters took to the streets of San Jose on Saturday morning in what they called a March of the Invisibles to protest for the rights of marginalised people and to ensure the separation of church and state in the country.

The march was the culmination of an online campaign which saw 15,000 people sign a petition calling on the president of Costa Rica’s Human Rights Commission, Justo Orozco, to resign.

Police in Canada confirmed a Chinese student studying in Montreal had dated a porn actor who killed him and sent his body parts to the country’s top political parties.

Justin Jun Lin, a 33 year-old from the central Chinese city of Wuhan, has been identified as the victim of suspected bisexual killer Luka Rocco Magnotta, now on Interpol's wanted-persons list, police said in a statement on Friday (1 June).

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.

The ugly split between Pinal County Sheriff and Arizona congressional candidate Paul Babeu and ex-boyfriend Jose Orozco just got uglier.

Orozco alleges that after their split, Babeu asked him to sign an agreement not to publicly discuss their relationship. When he refused, he says Babeu and his lawyer threatened the Mexican national with deportation.

Orozco, 34, has said he is in the US on a 10-year tourist visa and that Babeu never asked him his legal status despite the lawman's strong political stance against illegal immigration.

One of Europe’s most celebrated football coaches, José Mourinho, has been caught on camera apparently making a gay slur.

Mourinho is currently coach of Spanish superclub Real Madrid, he was previously at Chelsea in Britain, and is nicknamed ‘The Special One’.

He made the comments while kicking a ball around on a snowy soccer pitch in Moscow on Monday (20 February), prior to the Champion’s League match between Real Madrid and Moscow yesterday (21 February).

A builder who erected model penises outside a man's house has been fined for homophobic abuse.

Michael Parkes pleaded guilty to using threatening words and behaviour at Bristol Magistrates' Court yesterday.

The court heard how the 34-year-old, from Bristol in the UK, who was absent from the hearing, was working on a house in Bourneville Road with another builder on 12 March, when neighbor Richard Ives asked if he could take his washing inside before they started work.

Barney Frank, the first openly gay member of the U.S. House of Representatives, is getting married to his longtime partner Jim Ready.

The couple, who met six years ago, have not yet set a date.

The Massachusetts congressman isn't providing any further details but he told Charlie Rose in an interview earlier this month: 'I have a partner now. I’m in love for the first time in my life.'

Frank is 71 and Ready is 42.