A man who stalked a high profile Australian rules footballer and organized a gay orgy at the straight player’s family home has been jailed for one year.

Scott Thomas from Newcastle told Alex Rance, of the Richmond Tigers Football Club a gay orgy had been arranged at Rance’s family home, after their friendship turned sour.

A group of pro-marriage demonstrators in Southern California got a pleasant surprise this week: coupons for free food at a nearby Chick-fil-A.

In advance of the US Supreme Court's historic hearings on gay marriage, the group was demonstrating at an intersection just outside the Victoria Gateway Center in Rancho Cucamonga, California.

They were surprised when Corey Braun, owner of the Chick-fil-A franchise inside the center approached them with coupons for free meals.

Melbourne Lord Mayor Robert Doyle will meet with the Russian ambassador to Australia to discuss a controversial law passed by the city of St Petersburg that bans public discussion of homosexuality.

In March of 2012 a new law was adopted in St Petersburg, banning so-called ‘propaganda of sodomy, lesbianism, bisexuality and transgenderness [sic] among minors’

The law punishes ‘homosexual propaganda’ in public with fines of up to $15,600 or up to 15 days in prison.

Tens of thousands turned out to watch members of the New Zealand military march in uniform for the first time in Saturday’s Auckland Pride parade.

It was the first time that Auckland had hosted an LGBT pride parade since 2001 when the city’s annual Hero Parade ceased due to lack of funding.

This year’s Auckland Pride parade followed the same route as the Hero Parade – along Ponsonby Street – and terminated in Victoria Park for a large public party.

Continuing a big year for LGBT sport around the world, we catch up with Michelle Weltman - head coach of LGBT aquatics club Out To Swim, the organization hosting the GLLAM swimming competition in London.

When will the 2013 event be held?

On Saturday (16 March) at the Queen Mother Sports Centre in central London - just near Victoria train station.

What events will be included in GLLAM 2013?

British gay and lesbian couples have spoken about what the government's plans to legalize same-sex marriage means to them in a new YouTube video campaign.

The promotional video created by the government's Department for Culture, Media and Sport features two same-sex couples explaining why they want to wed, as parliament prepares to debate a gay marriage bill.

Australian marriage equality advocates have welcomed the introduction of a bill to legalize same-sex marriage into the Western Australian state parliament by Greens' party Upper House member Lynn MacLaren, bringing to six the total number of states and territories moving forward on the issue.

The now defunct Rolling Stone’s tabloid published a notorious article in 2010, entitled: ’100 Pictures of Uganda’s Top Homos Leak’ with a picture of a noose and the further caption – ‘HANG THEM!’

The Article used pictures including a hangman’s noose to out gays and lesbians in Uganda, causing untold harm, including ostracizing, beatings and arrests of some Ugandans, while others fled the country.

Openly gay former deputy lord mayor Gary Singer is standing for election as Mayor of Melbourne.

Singer stood for election as Lord Mayor four years ago but was defeated by former state leader of the Liberal Party Robert Doyle who currently holds the role.

Singer served as deputy lord mayor from 2004 to 2008 under Lord Mayor John So, Australia’s first mayor of Asian descent who was voted World Mayor in an international popular vote in 2006. John So’s son, also called John, is running as deputy with Singer.

A former state premier who has made homophobic statements in the past has been invited to join the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade following a change in his views.

Jeff Kennett, who served as Liberal Premier of Victoria from 1992 to 1999, is now chairman of beyondblue, Australia’s national anti-depression initiative, who are sponsoring Sydney’s Mardi Gras in February 2013.

Western Australia will become the latest state to take same-sex marriage legislation into their own hands after Greens Lynn MacLaren announced her intention to introduce a bill to state parliament.

The state with a population of 2.3 million joins South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Australian Capital Territory in initiating their own gay marriage legislation following a prolonged national campaign which may come to nothing.

A new Australian campaign tackling homophobia has been endorsed by the Australian Football League (AFL) rugby code.

The No To Homophobia campaign was launched at the Victorian state parliament today by the Victorian Mental Health Minister Mary Wooldridge and the Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Ken Lay.

Wooldridge said it was everyone's responsibility to take action on homophobic attitudes.

‘This is a call to action in relation to saying no to homophobia,’ Wooldridge said.