The Media Development Authority (MDA) of Singapore is introducing a tough new rule that will censor websites that are read from inside the country, even if they are not hosted there.

The new rule, which will come into effect on Saturday (1 June), will require local news websites and those that report regularly on Singapore and get at least 50,000 unique visitors from Singapore over two months to apply for an individual license.

British Lancashire artist Chris Fittock has dedicated his latest show to Lucy Meadows, the transgender primary school teacher who was found dead after her transition was leaked to the media.

Amy Grant, the most successful Christian music recording artist of all time, says she has always embraced her gay following.

The singer says she never felt the need to reconcile her faith with her acceptance of gay people.

Legendary rapper Snoop Dogg has again spoken out in support of gay marriage.

In an interview with the Huffington Post, the artist now known as Snoop Lion discussed his new documentary, a new upcoming album and his take on the Supreme Court hearings on California’s Prop. 8 legislation that bans gay marriage.

One of the founders of West-Coast hip-hop, Snoop said in his interview: ‘People can do what they want and as they please’.

A packed auction room at Christie’s was stunned into silence last night (21 March) as artist Tracey Emin spontaneously auctioned one of her famous neons at HIV and sexual health charity Terrence Higgins Trust’s 30th Anniversary Auction.

Emin – who had flown from Miami to London to attend – upped the ante with the surprise auction lot. The winning bidder forked out £58,000 ($88,000 €68,000) to get their hands the neon sign, which will be made in a color of the buyer’s choosing and will read ‘now love is for you’.

Microsoft has unveiled its new advert for its email Outlook, and has found a way to show their support for marriage equality.

The ad features a woman receiving updates about her friends’ lives, with a guy changing jobs from deliveryman to stuntman, and a girl marrying her female partner.

It also features the music of Macklemore, a hip hop artist who released a beautiful, haunting anthem about gay people last year called Same Love.

Last month, Microsoft was one of several companies who signed a brief supporting marriage equality.

The comic book artist due to work on the latest Superman series has decided to quit over the controversy of hiring an anti-gay campaigner to write the stories.

Chris Sprouse, who made the appointment yesterday (5 March), said he ‘wasn’t comfortable’ with the backlash following the appointment of Orson Scott Card.

Superman fans and gay rights groups blasted DC Comics’ decision to hire the Card, author of the Ender’s Game series and has said marriage equality would lead to the end of civilization.

Cher fans have already been waiting since 2002 for the diva to release an album of new material.

The singer, who has had number one records in six different decades dating back to the 1960s, took to Twitter over the weekend to explain why she is taking so long to finish her latest album which was originally scheduled to be out at Christmas.

'I Believe you’ll think it’s worth it!' she tweeted to her 1.3 million followers. 'Ya see, as I’ve been recording songwriters are coming up with amazing songs!'

Frank Ocean is closing the chapter on his run-in with Chris Brown.

The out singer went to his Tumblr page to announce he would not be bringing charges against the fellow entertainer.

R&B artist Chris Brown has compared himself to Jesus after his fight with openly gay singer Frank Ocean.

The ‘Don’t Judge Me’ singer posted a mural of the central Christian figure on his Instagram account, saying ‘Painting the way I feel today. Focus on what matters!’

Brown posted the painting after it was revealed Los Angeles police are wishing to speak to him for allegedly punching Ocean.

As Ocean stayed to give police a statement, and Brown fled the scene, the gay singer is now being treated as the victim.

A Bologna based LGBT publishing house has launched its first Italian comic – about a gay man who steals and wears women's jewelry.

Renbooks, founded in 2011 by Nino Giordano and Fabio Freddi, has just published Barba Di Perle by Florentine artist Flavia Biondi.

It's the first time the company has published its own title – their previous comics have been imported. But Renbooks has big plans for revolutionizing the gay comic market in Italy and giving LGBT Italians a new voice.

Pakistan’s National College of Arts has closed its own academic journal following threats from Islamists after it published a series of paintings featuring homoerotic scenes of Islamic clerics and young men.

The Lahore based college pulled all copies of the journal from shelves and dissolved its editorial board following a backlash against the paintings, which may yet result in blasphemy charges being brought against college staff, the artist and others involved in the publication of the journal.