The British government’s advisor on gay marriage has left his job after losing a power battle with a fellow strategist.

Andrew Cooper, founder of UK polling company Populus Ltd, resigned from his position as director of government strategy yesterday (14 April), the Daily Mail reports.

A gay man has said he was ‘humiliated’ when he was forced to reveal his positive HIV status at a job center.

Jayce Carberry, 22, said staff in Maidstone, Kent, made him declare his condition in front of other jobseekers.

An advisor even said he would have to seek legal advice about what sort of contact Carberry could have with other staff.

‘His [the advisor’s] reply was I’ll have to speak to my legal team to see if we have to disclose your HIV status to any members of the staff you come into contact with in this building,’ he told the BBC.

President Barack Obama on Monday (7 January) formally nominated former Senator Chuck Hagel to lead the US Defense Department.

Hagel has come under for in recent weeks for anti-gay comments he's made in the past but Obama has said he believes his appointee's apology is sincere and has stood by him.

Maurice Tomlinson, an LGBT advocate is to challenge Belize’s entry ban on gays in an international court.

Tomilnson, a Jamaican national and legal advisor for the NGO AIDS-Free World has been invited to conduct training and sensitization sessions regarding the rights of individuals infected and affected by HIV and AIDS.

Axel Díaz González, 20 year-old trans woman, was beaten and stabbed by group of men in Estelí, Nicaragua.

When González tried to file a complaint to the local police station she was laughed at and told she was asking for trouble because she ‘went looking for men’.

A Christian housing manager who was demonted and had his salary slashed after he criticized gay marriages in church has won his court case.

Adrian Smith, aged 54, from Bolton, north west England was a manager at Trafford Housing Trust.

But after he wrote on Facebook that ‘marriage is for men and women’ he had his pay cut by 40% from £35,000 to £21,000. And he was shifted to a job as an advisor.

Friends said this would leave him facing financial hardship.

Billy Graham, the famed evangelist who has been spiritual advisor to several US presidents, speaks out against gay marriage in a full-page ad appearing in the Wall Street Journal on Friday (19 October).

Graham states in the ad that as he approaches his 94th birthday, the November elections in the US may be his last.

A Chicago advocacy group is claiming Chick-fil-A has promised to stop funding anti-gay conservative groups.

The American restaurant company, which was at the center of a media firestorm after its president confirmed their anti-gay marriage stance, has allegedly agreed to cease politically motivated donations.

In a press release, the Civil Rights Agenda (TCRA) cites Alderman Moreno as confirming Chick-fil-A officials will now ‘treat every person equally, regardless of sexual orientation.’

Close political advisor to Taiwan’s President Ma Ying-jeou has denied speculation that he and the president have a ‘brokeback’ relationship.

When King Pu-tsung, as the president’s closest aide, was asked at a press conference yesterday if he was considering legal action over media speculation that he and President Ma were romantically involved, he said:

Billy Graham, the famed evangelist who has been spiritual advisor to several US presidents, has come out publicly in favor of North Carolina's anti-gay Amendment One.

The 93-year-old Baptist minister is not known for taking strong political stances previously but has decided to campaign for passage of a ballot initiative that seeks to add a ban of same-sex marriages and civil unions to the North Carolina constitution.

Graham has purchased full-page ads that will appear in 14 newspapers over the weekend. Voters go to the polls on May 8.