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February 4, 2013
The husband of Good Morning America's Sam Champion didn't fall in love with a TV star

Rubem Robierb: 'When Sam and I began hanging out, I didn’t know anything about him'

Millions of television viewers may know Sam Champion as the longtime weather anchor on ABC's Good Morning America but new husband Rubem Robierb was not among them.

'When Sam and I began hanging out, I didn’t know anything about him - his world was not part of my universe,' Robierb says in the 'Love Issue' of Out Magazine. 'I don’t watch TV and I wake up at 9:30 every day.'

December 28, 2012
Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin prepare for another New Year's Eve telecast on CNN

Griffin tells a giggling Cooper: 'This year the mask is coming off'

Anderson Cooper has one of his easiest television gigs all year when he co-hosts CNN's New Year's Eve coverage with Kathy Griffin from Times Square in New York.

All he has to do is giggle.

The cable network has paired Cooper up with comedienne Griffin for the sixth consecutive year and the pair chatted about their plans for the evening on Cooper's nightly CNN show on Thursday (27 December).

'We are gonna break it down this year,' Griffin warned Cooper. 'This year the mask is coming off - the secrets that you've been keeping.'

December 28, 2012
The 13 best New Year's Eve parties for 2013

Gay Star News travels the world to find the best places to ring in the New Year

If you're looking for somewhere a little more exciting to spend New Year's Eve than your local boozer, then take a look at the celebrations the rest of the world has to offer.

There are concerts, fireworks and parties going on all over the world, each one with its own unique and exciting selling points.

August 23, 2012
Gay hate crime condemned by hip hop fans

A cowardly attack with a taser gun on an American gay couple has been condemned by hip hop fans  – with even some self confessed homophobes condemning the attack

A hate crime against an American gay couple posted on a music website has been roundly condemned by hip hop fans in what may be another sign of a growing shift away from homophobia in the genre.

The video, posted to the World Star Hip Hop website on August 21 shows a mixed race gay couple standing at a convenience store service window when a man fires a taser gun into one of the man’s back and electrocutes him.

August 12, 2012
London 2012 Olympics: an LGBT legacy?

How a geeky gay boy became a sports hero and is now spearheading the bid to provide an LGBT legacy from the London 2012 Olympics

I'm in my mid-40s. School sports on the rugby fields of Wales was not inspiring for a young gay boy, slightly geeky and the shortest in the class. Games lessons would start with the humiliating ceremony of the two sportiest jocks being selected by the PE teacher, and they would pick off, one by one, the fittest lads for their teams. I would always be left until last – which meant I wasn't even chosen at all.

July 9, 2012
London cabbies go from black to rainbow for Pride Toronto

To promote World Pride in Toronto, 2014, a number of London taxis will be painted in the colors of the rainbow.

London's taxis will go from black to rainbow in a bid to bring the UK capital's gay community to Toronto for the next World Pride in 2014.

The city in Canada won the bid against Stockholm to host the global LGBT event and the colorful adverts will be printed on the taxis, complete with studded leather seats mimicking fetish wear and one with a fur effect. The tagline for the taxis is: ‘Ride with Toronto Pride’.

For four weeks the taxis will run through the UK capital, with Soho becoming a target spot.

June 5, 2012
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villariagosa kicks off Pride week with garden party

Tells Gay Star News: 'This is the last frontier of civil rights'

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa welcomed thousands of LGBT people and their allies to his official residence Sunday afternoon for a star-studded garden party kicking off a week of Pride events that culminates in a two-day festival next weekend.

Chaz Bono, one of this year's LA Pride honorees, was at the party as was actress Molly Ringwald who will be grand marshal of next Sunday's Pride Parade in West Hollywood.

Villaraigosa, mayor since 2005, took some time during the event to speak with Gay Star News about his longtime commitment to LGBT equality.

May 30, 2012
Welsh film composer takes inspiration from Sydney’s gay Mardi Gras festival

Welsh composer takes influence from Sydney's Mardi Gras to create a piece for world's largest gay short film festival

A new piece of music commissioned especially for a Welsh film festival takes influence from Sydney's Mardi Gras.

Cardiff's Iris International Gay and Lesbian Film Prize Festival features one of the world’s largest short film awards categories.

Valued at £25,000 ($39,221 €31,267), the Iris Prize offers the winning filmmaker the chance to make a new short film by offering them funding, support and guidance.

April 3, 2012
An early look at Darren Criss and Matt Bomer duet on Glee!

As brothers, pair powers through Gotye hit Somebody That I Used to Know

Matt Bomer will leave his regular TV character of Neal Lafferty on White Collar far behind when he guest stars on Glee next week as the estranged older brother of Blaine Anderson (played by Darren Criss).

The Fox hit, which has been on hiatus since late February, returns to the air April 8 with Bomer and Criss performing some powerful duets including the Gotye hit Somebody That I Used to Know.

February 14, 2012
Fair Day kicks off Sydney Mardi Gras

Free outdoor music festival raises record-breaking funds for the festival

Sydney Mardi Gras kicked off at the weekend with Fair Day, the free outdoor festival opener for the LGBT festival that runs until the world famous Sydney Mardi Gras parade on 3 March.

The organisers of the festival, Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, said this year's Fair Day was record-breaking with 70,000 people enjoying music and entertainment in Victoria Park and more funds raised to support the free carnival than ever before.

February 10, 2012
Meet the gay workplace leaders

We interview the ‘power gays’ shaping global firms from the inside to make them better employers for lesbian, gay and bisexual staff

In some ways it is surprising how much of an impact the Stonewall Workplace Equality Index has.

Employers participating in the annual survey provide detailed responses to a comprehensive range of questions about their lesbian, gay and bisexual workplaces practices. And they submit evidence to prove they offer a diverse and inclusive workplace.

February 1, 2012
Revelers gear up for 2012 Sydney Mardi Gras

Kylie Minogue, theme park and fair scheduled for 3 week LGBTQI festival

The 2012 Sydney Mardi Gras kicks off in just 10 days time and the festival looks set to be one of the best yet!

The event will begin on 12 February with a special Fair Day to celebrate the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and intersex members of the Australian community.

Held in Victoria Park, Camperdown the free event will have live entertainment, a boys versus girls tug-of-war and even a Doggywood pet pageant.

February 1, 2012
Trans child mental institution threat

Activists are campaigning to save an 11-year-old child in Germany from being institutionalized for being transgender

A child in Germany may be commited to a mental institution for being transgender.

Alex, 11, currently lives with her mother, who supports her gender identification as transsexual.

But according to German lifestyle magazine Taz, her divorced father objects to his child's decision and, after the advice of a new nurse working on the case, the Youth Welfare Office in Berlin have obtained a court order, allowing them to hospitalize Alex at any time.

January 30, 2012
Britain prepares for LGBT History Month

Achievements of LGBT people to be celebrated in eighth annual event

February 2012 marks the eighth annual British LGBT History Month. First initiated in 2005, LGBT History Month is a time to celebrate the lives and achievements of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.

January 30, 2012
Stephen Fry, Ian McKellen and Sophie Ward go on view

Britain's top gay and lesbian film professionals to be honoured during LGBT History Month

An exhibition honouring Britain's top gay and lesbian professionals working in the UK film industry will open during LGBT History Month, Cardiff.

Stephen Fry, Sir Ian McKellen, Sir Antony Sher and Sophie Ward are among the 11 stars photographed by Donald MacLellan for the Pink Portraits collection.

The 20 free-standing portraits will be exhibited at the Office for National Statistics in Newport, Wales throughout February.

January 26, 2012
History made at Welsh LGBT History Month

Wales' top officials to honour gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people at opening of event

For the first time in history, leading dignitaries in Wales will declare their support for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people at the opening of LGBT History Month Cymru 2012.

Leading figures such as Welsh government minister Huw Lewis, leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats Kirsty Williams and Assembly minister for Plaid Cymru Lindsay Whittle will all give speeches at the launch of the event on 1 February at Senedd, Cardiff.