A Canadian Muslim gay activist launched the Malay version of her controversial book on liberal Islam in Malaysia, despite official efforts to ban all her public events.

Irshad Manji and her local publisher ZI Publications eventually managed to pulled off the launch for ‘Allah, Liberty and Love’ (Allah, Kebebasan dan Cinta in Malay) in front of a 50-odd crowd yesterday (19 May), after two other venues pulled out of hosting her.

Billionaire entrepeneur Richard Branson is the latest high profile Briton to make a video for a new campaign promoting same-sex marriage.

Out4Marriage is getting politicians, famous names and ordinary members of the public to record a video explaining why they support marriage equality. Although it’s only 10 days old, hundreds of people, gay and straight, have already taken part.

British all-girl pop band, The Saturdays, have become the first major celebrities to record a video for a new campaign promoting same-sex marriage.

Out4Marriage is getting politicians, famous names and ordinary members of the public to record a video explaining why they support marriage equality. Although it’s only a few days old, hundreds of people, gay and straight, have already taken part.

It has already won the support of Britain’s Got Talent judge David Walliams and gay author, actor, TV presenter and comic Stephen Fry who have both sent supportive tweets.

Shortly after Barack Obama made history on Wednesday (9 May) by becoming the first US president to publicly support gay marriage, Ellen DeGeneres got on Twitter to express her gratitude.

'Thank you President @BarackObama for your beautiful and brave words,' she tweeted. 'I’m overwhelmed.'

DeGeneres, who is married to actress Portia de Rossi, was among the famous people in the entertainment industry who were quick with praise.

Openly gay pop star George Michael has said he was invited to take part in the Leveson inquiry into British media standards and has branded the official who said he wasn’t invited as a ‘liar’.

The Leveson inquiry has dominated the headlines in Britain for months – it’s looking at the culture, practice and ethics of the press with Rupert Murdoch’s media empire particularly in the firing line after his national Sunday paper News International was caught hacking people’s phones.

When Fox News personality Bill O'Reilly said last month that watching an episode of Glee featuring a transgender character might lead to some kids experimenting with their gender identity or sexuality, Grant Gustin immediately took to Twitter to dispute the notion.

The 22-year-old actor, who pays gay villain Sebastian Smythe on the show, tells Gay Star News that he quickly became aware of the show's impact on LGBT kids.

North Carolina voters are at the polls today deciding the fate of Amendment One, legislation that will ban the state from recognizing civil unions, strip away domestic partner benefits and could eliminate legal protections for all unmarried couples.

Passions have been heated on both sides of the issue in recent days and led to a war of words on Twitter between pro wrestler CM Punk and a homophobic supporter of the measure.

Bryan Fischer is no fan of consistency.

The American Family Association spokesman was extremely upset when Gov. Mitt Romney picked Richard Grenell to be his foreign policy spokesman.

'Romney picks out [and] loud gay as a spokesman. If personnel is policy, his message to the pro-family community: drop dead,' Fischer noted on his Twitter feed, as reported by Buzz Feed.

A leading Australian marriage equality advocate has been defended from a Christian lobby attack suggesting that his impending same-sex marriage is politically motivated.

Aspersions were cast on national convener of Australian marriage equality Alex Greenwich’s reasons for marrying his partner in Argentina.

Fox News contributor Monica Crowley is walking back one of her tweets. On Thursday, 26 April,  she wondered about Sandra Fluke's announcement about being engaged.

'To a man,' the Fox News analyst asked on Twitter, as reported by the Huffington Post.

Boy George announced he is giving Twitter a break until his 'homophobic spam issue' is resolved.

Over the last few days the 80s popstar has been subjected to a string of tweets that sound like homophobic playground bullying. '@BoyGeorge wants ya penis' said one from Tory Fox (@Cornelia_573) from Georgia in the US. '@BoyGeorge lookup ya butt,' said another from Arnetta Siren (@Charise_769) in Nebraska, US.