Gays marrying will lead to a lesbian queen giving birth to a future monarch by artificial insemination, a former Tory chairman has warned.

Lord Tebbit, 82, also told the Big Issue magazine the legislation in England and Wales could also allow him to marry his son to escape inheritance tax.

Britain is a step closer to having an openly gay player in its national sport – soccer.

That’s according to Chris Basiurski, chairman of the UK’s Gay Football Supporters’ Network (GFSN).

It comes after some in the media belatedly picked up a story Gay Star News covered last year – where Clarke Carlisle, chairman of the Professional Footballers' Association, revealed eight players had told him they were gay.

A man who once claimed to have been ‘cured’ of his sexuality has formally apologized for the harm he has caused, adding he is still gay.

John Paulk, the former chairman of Exodus International and founded the ‘Focus On The Family’, has released a statement renouncing his ‘ex-gay’ past.

‘For the better of ten years, I was an advocate and spokesman for what’s known as the “ex-gay movement”’ said Paulk, ‘where we declared that sexual orientation could be changed through a close-knit relationship with God, intensive therapy and strong determination.

An anti-gay US leader has claimed gay people want to have sex with children and animals as part of their ‘sexual repertoire.’

The discredited ‘researcher’ Paul Cameron, chairman of the anti-gay Family Research Institute, spoke to the National Press Club today that around one in four gay men have sex with children.

Michigan’s Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians tribal council has voted to allow same-sex marriage under tribal law.

If not vetoed by the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians tribal chairman the change would see at least some LGBT Michiganders allowed to marry for the first time despite the state’s ban on same-sex marriage.

The tribal council voted 5-4 to pass the statute.

If the tribal chairman decides to veto the law, the tribal council will need to vote 7-2 to overrule him, so it is not yet guaranteed the change will take effect.

A gay millionaire who left the British Conservative party over gay issues now wants to stand as a member of parliament.

Insurance businessman Ivan Massow applied to be the Tory candidate for the Somerset constituency he has 'lived in and loved' all his life.

But on the same day the chairman of Somerton and Frome Constituency Conservative Association resigned after 49 years, citing Prime Minister David Cameron's stance on gay marriage as the reason.

These two events have kicked off a constituency row about equal marriage.

The chairman of the Young Independents, a wing of the UKIP party, was fired after revealing his support for marriage equality.

Olly Neville, 20, took to Twitter late on 8 January claiming party authorities ‘insulted his intelligence’ on gay marriage.

The former leader then posted two screengrabs of emails from Stephen Crowther, chairman of the UK Independence Party, condemning him for his comments he made during an interview with the BBC on New Year’s Eve.

Gay marriage proponents in Illinois got some unlikely support on Wednesday (2 January) when the chairman of the state's Republican Party stepped up and spoke out in favor of marriage equality.

'I think it’s time for people to support this,' Pat Brady said as the state's legislature prepares to discuss a bill that would make same-sex marriage legal in the state.

A national anti-gay 'propaganda' bill, similar to the one passed in St Petersburg, threatens to silence Russia's gay community.

The proposed legislation will enter its first reading in the country's national parliament, the Duma, on 19 December.

Britain's UK Independence Party has distanced itself from one of its members who called gay adoption 'child abuse'.

The right-wing party's culture spokesman, Winston McKenzie, called for a ban on LGBT people adopting, claiming same-sex parents might raise the child to be gay.

UKIP denied the homophobic views of the North Croydon by-election candidate represent the party's official stance on gay marriage and adoption.

IRA leader Michael Collins may have been gay, claims a gay Irish senator in his new autobiography.

Collins is considered by many to be a revolutionary hero who helped pave the way for the foundation of the modern Irish state.

As well as being the intelligence director of the IRA, a military group which fought British rule during the 1919–21 Irish War of Independence and later became known as a notorious terrorist group, Collins was both Chairman of the Provisional Government and Commander-in-chief of the National Army.