So, rumor has it that the world is going end this year (again). Now, who is going to rescue us from complete and utter annihilation?

In his production, I Love You but We Only Have Fourteen Minutes to Save the Earth, award-winning director Nathan Evans presents three artists, all of which have only 14 minutes to save the world - the only question is how?

The three artists featured in the London show are 'avant guardian angel', David Hoyle, the 'reigning alternative Miss World', Fancy Chance and 'eco worrier extraordinaire', Timberlina. 

Veteran gay activist Peter Tatchell has accussed religious leaders of misleading the British public by saying that the introduction of gay marriage in the UK would force faith groups to wed same-sex partners.

Tatchell is national coordinator of the Equal Love Campaign which wants to legalize same-sex marriage and offer civil partnerships (the current UK equivalent of marriage on offer to lesbian and gay couples) to straight people too.

Ahead of a film screening at Beijing LGBT center this Saturday, Gay Star News speaks to the director of a short film about Xiyadie ('The Siberian Butterfly'), who uses the traditional Chinese art of papercutting to express his sexuality.

The traditional Chinese folk art of paper cutting is not usually used to depict sexually explicit homoerotic images, but Beijing-based artist Xiyadie found a means of self-expression for his sexuality in the 1400-year-old art form.

A film which shows Jesus and his apostles as gay men living in Texas in the 1950s is set to come to San Francisco.

The Californian city, once thought of as the center of the gay world, will have the first chance to see the documentary movie which is based on the play Corpus Christi: Playing With Redemption.

The film of Corpus Christi follows the cast of the play by Terrence McNally over the course of five years, documenting the production and the public's response.

A gay pride event planned to coincide with the Olympics in London has been cancelled due to 'a lack of sponsorship and headline entertainment'.

The 18-day Pride House festival was originally planned to be held in the UK capital's Clapham Common park from 26 July to 12 August.

Short film My Way, about a mainland Chinese transgender woman having surgery in Hong Kong, was released a week ago (12 April) and already has 2 million views on Youku (China's YouTube).

The film by critically acclaimed director Ann Hui is the latest example of professional directors by-passing the censorship of China's State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) to reach huge audiences online.

A production of The Vagina Monologues in Chinese, with specially-written segments relevant to the LGBT community, played to packed audiences in Shanghai last weekend. Gay Star News speak to the director Xiao Yan about Chinese voices are calling more loudly for gay rights than for women’s rights.

Why did you decided to stage The Vagina Monologues in China?

Sanubari Jakarta ('Jakarta Deep Down'), a collection of stories about LGBT lives in the capital of Indonesia, was released in cinemas yesterday.

The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation announced Tuesday (10 April) that Chaz Bono will receive the Stephen F. Kolzak Award at its Los Angeles GLAAD Media Awards Ceremony later this month.

Bono, the only child of Cher and the late Sonny Bono, was a popular contestant on ABC's Dancing With the Stars last fall and in a pair of recent documentaries chronicled his transition from a female named Chastity to a man named Chaz.

Nepalese member of parliament and LGBT campaigner Sunil Babu Pant has started a petition to make Facebook a more inclusive place for transgender and gender variant people.

The All Out campaign calls on Facebook to change the current profile settings and add an additional 'third gender' for  members whose gender identity doesn't fit within simple male or female checkboxes.

LadyRock Festival is running a competition to win a 15-minute performance slot on their main stage.

The first all women’s festival in Manchester will take place on 26 May, aiming to bring ‘girl power’ to the 21st century.