When I started writing this column last year my underlying aim was to encourage you, my readers, to seek out the fun in driving again.

That joy has been diluted (if not lost altogether with urban driving) what with over-crowded roads, speed cameras, emissions regulations... yawn! I'm not trying to sound like Jeremy Clarkson, I'm particularly fond of polar bears, but seriously? Sometimes there is more to driving than just the A to B!

Motor racing star Sir Stirling Moss has said he does not want a ‘poofter’ to play him in a film.

In an interview where the former Formula One driver made the offensive comments, he said he would like James Bond actor Daniel Craig to portray him.

The 83-year-old said: ‘I hope the actor would be masculine – not a poofter or anything like that. Perhaps the guy from Skyfall.’

Meeting Mike Orford (Head of Porsche’s PR in the UK) and his team at a press testing day last October, I’d introduced myself as the new motoring hack at GSN hoping I may get the opportunity to jump in one of their range for a brief test. Imagine my joy when they asked if I’d fancy experiencing a cross section of their new cars and undertake driver training at the Porsche Centre Silverstone as used by Formula One drivers? Christmas had arrived early.

A high school teacher in Alabama, who also happens to be head football coach, is under investigation for allegedly making anti-gay slurs during a lecture that was recorded by a student.

Bob Grisham, teaches driver’s education and psychology at Lauderdale County High School in Rogersville, Alabama, was recorded Monday (28 January) saying the US is going in the 'wrong direction.'

An Atlanta man is suing Georgia’s Department of Driver Services for rejecting his application for a GAYGUY license plate.

James Cyrus Gilbert says his rights were violated when the US state rejected his gay pride vanity plates.

The other possibilities he would have liked to have on his car were 4GAYLIB and GAYPWR.

Since the 1940s there has always been a gap, albeit it a small one, for microcars within the motoring landscape. Whether it was the Peel P50 or Messerschmitt Bubblecar, they were models that captivated people’s imagination with their design and amused even the grumpiest onlooker.

A trans women from Beylikduzu in Istanbul was shot last Saturday, tragically extending 2012's list of murdered transgender women in Turkey.

Gunce Hatun, a 19-year-old who worked as a sex worker was shot dead on the street, said Kemal Ordek a Turkish steering committee member for Transgender Europe.

Turkish news reports say that police arrested a man who is a driver for a private bank. He claimed Hatun tried to force her way into his car.

This brings the number of murder trans women in Turkey this year to six.

A transgender woman was arrested by Kuwaiti police, activists fear she will be charged and tried for ‘imitating the opposite sex’.

According to Kuwaiti activists there are at least eleven transgender people being held in prison awaiting trial, six of them arrested in the last two weeks.

A group of styled moral vigilantes detained four men who were said to have ‘practiced immorality’ (i.e. gay sex) in Cario, Egypt.

The four men were apparently caught in the act by the group in a private car on Game'et el Duwal el Arabya (Arab League Blvd), Mohandeseen neighbourhood, Cario last night (26 October).

It may sound slightly trivial, but I’m always fascinated by what people eat, how they make decisions about food and what are some of the assumptions that people are making about the food that they’re eating.

This week I’ve surveyed 100 gay men around the world to find our what they have for breakfast. It may not be the most rigorous of studies, but it’s a pretty strong sample of gay men primarily in the 25 to 45 age bracket and a good mix of global locations including the US, Canada, Australia, Great Britain, France, Denmark, the Netherlands and Belgium.

A video of a Northern Irish horse carriage driver’s homophobic and racist rant in New York City has stunned viewers.

It shows a carriage horse driver taunting a small group of female animal rights activists, including senior and African-American volunteers, with racist and homophobic slurs.

The women say they were peacefully handing out flyers during New York’s Pride weekend on 23 June, protesting the New York horse carriage industry which employs are large majority of Irish people.

He says: ‘Are you still bribing the politicians you [expletive]?’