In a landmark decision, the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal has ruled that a transsexual woman can marry her boyfriend.

A Hong-Kong-born transsexual woman in her mid-30s, known only as 'W' in court, has won a five year battle to win the right to marry the man she loves.

Michael Vidler, a partner of the legal firm representing the case, called the judgment a 'resounding victory' and said he was 'relieved' and 'happy' with the judgement.

Out of the five judges on the bench, four accepted the team's arguments.

The Colombian Senate decides to suspend marriage equality vote until Tuesday (23 April) by a vote of 35-30.

Only 65 senators attended the vote out of the Senate's 102 members.

During an intense discussion that started today (17 April) at 5pm local time, the Senate unexpectedly postponed the vote on the equal marriage bill.

The decision was made following a proposal of the Senator Juan Restrepo of the ruling 'U' party, who pointed out that the debate ‘was very important’ for country’s future and that therefore it should be delayed.

A jury in Christchurch, New Zealand has found 28-year-old Gavin Gosnell guilty of murdering gay teenager Hayden Miles.

There were cheers in the High Court and Miles' mother burst into tears when the verdict was read out, TVNZ reports.

'We want to remember Hayden for who he was, not what happened to him on that horrific night,' said Jacqui Miles outside the court.

Slovenia’s Constitutional Court has ruled that the country's law on inheritance and succession discriminates same-sex couples.

Speaking this morning (10 April) in the eastern European country’s capital, the court’s spokesman said ‘the Ljubljana’s parliament should fix the gap in six months’.

The new rules come after the case of two lesbian women from the Slovenian city of Koper. One of them appealed to the court after her partner died and she found she had no inheritance rights.

Company boss Jim Cullen poured scorn on an openly lesbian employee and shouted and swore at her, a tribunal heard today (4 April).

The 6ft 3ins tall director of Cash Zone Ltd made homophobic comments about 19-year-old Rae Roberts, who worked for him in Camberley, Surrey, southern England, after she and her girlfriend attended a party together at his home.

The employment tribunal was told that Cullen even threw a waste-paper trash can at Roberts and called her an idiot before dismissing her without warning.

Edith Windsor emerged from the US Supreme Court building today to hear a crowd chanting 'Edie! Edie!'

The 83-year-old New York resident was the star attraction in the landmark challenge to the Defense of Marriage Act which was being heard by justices it appears may be ready to strke the law down.

As she stood on the steps of the court, Windsor took the opportunity to tell her story and how a $350,000-plus federal estate tax bill, received after the death of her spouse of 44 years, Thea Clara Spyer, got her to this historic day.

Following today's US Supreme Court's Proposition 8 hearing, the two attorneys leading the charge to strike down California's gay marriage ban stood on the steps of the court happy to be on the same side this time around.

Ted Olson and David Boies had been on opposite sides in the same court more than a dozen years earlier when they faced-off in the Bush v. Gore case that ended the 2000 US presidential election dispute.

United States Supreme Court justices asked tough questions today of both sides during oral arguments in a case challenging the constitutionality of California's Proposition 8.

Among the chief questions was whether supporters of Proposition 8, which bans gay marriage in the state, even have the legal standing to defend the law in court.

'Here these individuals are not elected by the people or appointed by the people,' Justice Sonia Sotomayor remarked at one point.

The Attorney General is reviewing the sentence of a man who was given just three-and-a-half years jail for burning a gay teenager to death, Gay Star News has learned.

Steven Simpson, who had Asperger’s syndrome, a speech impairment and epilepsy was celebrating his 18th birthday when the incident happened in the early hours of 23 June last year.

A Paraguayan gay couple demands the right to register their marriage in their country.

Thirty-year old Simon Cazal and 20-year-old Sergio López were married last year in Argentina, the first Latin American country to approve nationwide gay marriage.

However, Paraguay has no laws for same-sex marriage or civil unions.

As part of their first year anniversary, the couple asked yesterday (22 March) a judge in Asunción, Paraguay’s capital, to order civil registry officials to record their marriage.

Christian owners of a British guesthouse has found a way to legally turn away gay couples.

Peter and Hazelmary Bull have been advised if they wish to have a married straight couples only policy, then they must become a non-profit company.

It follows after almost five years after civil partners Martyn Hall and Steve Preddy, who were denied a double room in the guesthouse, filed a case against the Bulls.

Two men have been entrapped and accused of working together to offer and solicit gay sex for money.

A Dubai court heard yesterday (17 March) that the two were caught in a ‘sting operation’ after police found one of the defendants offering sexual services on the social networking site Whoshere, with a profile nicknamed ‘Mayoud Al Barari’.