American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis has written a tirade against activist group GLAAD and criticized the establishment's response to the coming-out of basketball player Jason Collins.

I think it is probably illegal to go to bed early with a good book in Barcelona. Something about an early night is just wrong in the land of flamenco, fiestas and nights out starting at midnight. But no fear, a little bit of sun and some Gypsy King music and I am back in my 20s – flinging caution to the wind, staying up all hours and quaffing too much red wine.

Greens lawmaker Tammy Franks is campaigning to end the 'gay panic' defense in South Australia.

The 'gay panic' law can be used to reduce a murder sentence to manslaughter if the defendant proves they were prompted by a same-sex sexual advance.

'It is an archaic law with dangerous consequences that sends all the wrong messages in the year 2013,' said Franks, who is a Greens Member of the Legislative Council (MLC) in the state of South Australia.

'What the existing law does is effectively suggest that homophobia is okay,' said Franks.

Critics have slated Sirs Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi’s new gay sitcom Vicious.

The first episode saw older gay couple Freddie and Stuart, who have lived together for 48 years, hosting a wake and meeting their sexually ambiguous young neighbor.

A call back to a classic kind of comedy filmed in front of a live audience, the show worked well when showing off its camp one-liners about age and relationships.

Basketball player Jason Collins has come out as gay, becoming the first openly gay athlete in a major US team sport.

The seven foot tall 34-year-old, who plays center for the Washington Wizards, has come out in an article for Sports Illustrated.

He said: ‘I wish I wasn’t the kid in the classroom raising his hand and saying, “I’m different."

‘If I had my way, someone else would have already done this.

The idea of a drama about black LGBT people living in east London would likely not have made it to TV. But the makers of In The Deep has started winning an audience after releasing the show as a web series. Only two episodes have been released online so far and it's proving a hit.

Juggling limited funds, the show’s creators have launched an Indiegogo campaign to support the filming of the rest of the series.

German film director Roland Emmerich is going to work on a new movie on the Stonewall’s riots of 1969.

The author of 2012, Stargate and The Day After Tomorrow will spend about $14 million (€11 million) to film the story of a gay homeless teen who comes to New York and joins the Stonewall’s community.

The Stonewall riots were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations by members of the gay community against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City.

The half-naked men of Les Hommen and other anti-gay marriage protesters are expected to join forces in Paris today, in a last-ditch effort to stop same-sex marriage in the country.

France’s Parliament is expected to pass the Marriage for All bill allowing same-sex couples to marry and adopt children on 23 April.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the teenage suspect in custody for the Boston marathon bombings, liked to post homophobic jokes on Twitter.

19 year-old Tsarnaev was captured Friday evening (19 April) after he and his older brother were identified as suspects in the bombing of the Boston Marathon that left 183 people injured and three people dead.

The suspect’s older brother, 26 year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was shot dead by police after the two suspects led authorities on a violent chase.

France’s Prime Minister has called for calm as three employees of a gay bar were attacked in Lille.

As thousands of people protest for and against throughout the country, the National Assembly has begun the final discussions on the ‘Marriage for All’ bill, which will legalize same-sex marriage and adoption for gay couples.

France’s Interior Ministry says four people have been detained on suspicion of breaking the windows of a Lille gay bar, insulting the staff and injuring three of them.

I'd only been to Portugal once before, and that was an Easter weekend in Lisbon a couple of years ago. On that trip I was traveling with my ex-boyfriend, another of his ex-boyfriends, and his new boyfriend at the time – a strange combination but it worked surprisingly well.

This expedition was to Porto in the country’s north and I was on my own.

This week, 8 to 12 April, has marked the 27th annual observance of Holocaust Memorial Week. The week is about remembering not only the six million Jews murdered but also remembering the millions of allies, martyrs and victims who survived Nazi Germany’s reign of brutality.

The enormity of the mass slaughtering of Jews that took place – in ghettos, slave labor sites, concentration camps, prisoner-of-war camps, brothels filled with sex slaves and killing factories – is still being discovered as documents are unearthed.