A Moscow suburb court upheld the decision of the city authorities not to permit a gay pride parade this Saturday (25 May). Despite the ban, activists say Moscow Pride will go ahead as planned.

Nikolai Alekseev, co-founder of Moscow Pride and GayRussia, stated: ‘Khimki City Court upheld the ban on the planned Gay Pride rally and march.’

He added he would appeal on Monday to the Moscow Regional Court.

I always think when contemplating the future it’s interesting to also take a look at the past.

By all accounts travel or tourism continues to evolve rapidly, and adapt and change to the economic and social developments that we’re seeing around the world.

But this isn’t a new phenomenon.

Bill Gates will be giving an inventor thousands of dollars if they can invent a more pleasurable condom.

The co-founder of Microsoft and business magnate is looking for a next generation condom that ‘significantly preserves or enhances pleasure in order to improve uptake and regular use’.

Gates is welcoming anyone, from students to scientists, to come up with an idea and submit it in an easy, online, two-page application.

Thinking about planning your next trip? Unsure where to go, what to see, or things to do?

Relax – GSN is doing the hard work for you. We caught up with a couple of travel industry experts to bring you the latest and greatest in gay travel.

We spoke with Aaron Davis – founder of Venture Travel and Robert Sharp, co-founder of OUT Adventures.

The husband of the co-founder of Facebook's is planning to run for US Congress.

Sean Eldridge, the 26-year-old husband of Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, submitted forms this week to run as a Democrat for a congressional seat in New York in 2014.

The seat, representing New York's 19th district in the Hudson Valley, is currently held by Republican Chris Gibson, but his constituents voted for Democract president Barack Obama in last November's US election.

The Big Bang Theory gay actor Jim Parsons is developing a new television series about child prodigies.

The 39-year-old known for playing geeky neuroscientist Sheldon Cooper in the US sitcom will executive produce the show.

Titled Prodigies, the series will profile exceptionally gifted young people based on a series of videos on YouTube channel THNKR, which has over 100,000 subscribers and 12 million views.

A new gay marriage group has been launched to speak on behalf of Christians who support the UK government's plans.

Christians for Equal Marriage UK believe that despite the Anglican and Catholic churches' fierce opposition, it is not impossible for Christians to back gay rights and same-sex marriage.

'So many Christians are now moving away from the long-held traditional view of the church that marriage is only for heterosexual couples,' explained the group's founder, Nathan Hartley.

The United States Supreme Court stepped into the forefront of the gay marriage debate Friday (7 December) by agreeing to review cases involving California's Proposition 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).

The justices are expected to hear arguments in the cases by next April and could deliver a decision by June 2013.

The justices will consider whether Proposition 8 violates the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution. The ballot initiative banning gay marriage in California was passed by voters in the state in November 2008.

A day after the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation blasted Ann Coulter for a tweet that made fun of last week's National Coming Out Day in the US, the controversial political commentator is being defended by the co-founder of gay conservative group GOProud.

Coulter tweeted this week: 'Last Thursday was national 'coming out day.' This Monday is national 'disown your son' day.'

Helped in part by the $200,000 donated by Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates  and the company's CEO Steve Ballmer, Washington United for Marriage raised $952,000 in the month of June for its campaign to uphold the state's new gay marriage law.

Overall, the gay marriage proponents have raised for than $2 million so far but say they are not taking anything for granted.

Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates  and the company's CEO Steve Ballmer have donated $100,000 each to the campaign to uphold the state of Washington's new gay marriage law.

The November vote will take place just nine months after gay marriage was signed into law by Gov. Christine Gregoir. She had introduced the bill a month earlier and it was passed by both houses of the state legislature.

Microsoft is one of several prominent businesses in the Pacific Northwest to publicly support for same-sex marriage. Others include Starbucks Corp. and Nike Inc.