This Thursday, 28 March, at 9am in the US District Court, Washington DC, gay Army Lieutenant Dan Choi, stands trial for past protests against the since repealed anti-gay military policy ‘Don't Ask Don't Tell’ (DADT).

If convicted he faces six month imprisonment.

In 2010 Choi was dismissed from the US Army National Guard after coming out as gay on the Rachel Maddow TV show.

He was then billed by the US Defense Department for $2,500 for failing to fulfill his military contract, which he is refusing to pay.

The story of a transgender man at the turn of the twentieth century in Australia - featuring running away to sea, a viscous rape at the discovery of his biological sex, an abandoned child, a new identity, marriage, murder and the most high-profile court trial of the decade - would make a riveting plot for a novel, but this is all part of the real life of Eugenia Falleni.

Two men from Mali who were going to be executed for having gay sex have been saved.

France, as well as other African nations and including Mali's army, intervened to end a ten month rebellion by groups of Tuareg tribes and Islamist extremists.

The groups have taken over most of Northern Mali, including the town of Gao enforcing Sharia law, punishing thieves with amputation and executing gays.

Berlusconi, the 76 year-old tycoon and Italy's Prime Ministerial candidate, said during an interview on Radio Capital that ‘the left accuses me of everything except being gay and stealing money from Italians.

‘But I have a lot of gay friends. They're friendly and funny’,he said on 31 December, 2012 according to AFP.

A former counselor of Pfc. Bradley Manning explained, in a court hearing, why he thought solitary confinement was necessary for the gay soldier.

Manning is charged with sharing  US secrets to the website WikiLeaks in 2009 and 2010. After the 24-year-old was arrested he was, as reported by the Associated Press, kept 'in maximum custody and on injury-prevention status — conditions that kept him confined to his cell 23 hours a day.'

Derren Brown's ex cleaner has been jailed for 16 months after she was found guilty of filling in over £33,000 worth of blank checks from the gay illusionist's home.

Rocio Pavon-Navarrete, 47, a former teacher, previously admitted stealing two signed checks from the entertainer's home whilst he was on his 2010 Enigma tour, the Daily Mail reports.

Pavon-Navarrete, of Greenwich, south-east London, pleaded guilty at Southwark Crown Court last month to one charge of theft.

Canadian psychiatrist, Aubrey Levin is to stand on trial next Wednesday, in Calgary, Canada for sexually assaulting 10 male patients.

[UPDATE - GSN EXCLUSIVE below.]

The prosecution represents gay patients, who were mostly prisoners that were assigned by the Canadian justice system for treatment.

Aubrey Levin, infamously known as 'Dr Shock', has subjected hundreds of gay and lesbian soldiers and conscientious objectors in apartheid era South Africa to electric shocks ‘therapy’ in an attempt to 'cure' them of their sexuality and 'devian't ideas.

A man in the UK could face criminal charges after refusing to sit on the jury because of his 'extreme homophobic' views.

The would-be juror, who cannot be named for legal reasons, explained in a letter read out in court how his hateful beliefs made it impossible for him to be impartial during the assualt and dangerous driving trial at Southampton crown court.

'I strongly believe that it would be a serious injustice to the legal system to select me for jury service,’ he wrote.

A gay former aide to Mayor of London Boris Johnson has been found not guilty of possessing extreme porn images including one of an underage boy.

As GSN previously reported, Barrister Simon Walsh has been on trial at Kingston Crown Court in South London.

But after a week-and-a-half in court it took a jury only three hours to decide he was not guilty.

Three members of Russian female punk band Pussy Riot pleaded not guilty to 'religious hooliganism' as the trial into an anti-Putin protest which spoke out for gay rights began.

Maria Alekhina, Ekaterina Samutsevich and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova were accused of 'hooliganism on the grounds of religious hatred' for singing a protest song in Moscow’s main Orthodox church.

As Egypt prepares for a second round run off between the two leaders in the presidential electoral race, LGBT people have apparently lost faith in politics – although they maintain some belief in their fellow citizens.

The first round has left Egypt with two choices, to be put to a vote on 16 or 17 June; the old authoritarian regime and a new Islamic one.