In late May, First Lady Michelle Obama will attend a New York City fundraiser for an arm of the Democratic Party committed to LGBT issues.

According to a report from the website Politico the 29 May affair will be hosted by Andy Cohen, the Vice President of Development for the television channel Bravo. Cohen is an out gay man.

This year's Manchester Pride season kicks off with an exclusive, red-carpet event held on 6 April in the Concorde Hangar at Manchester Airport.

Inspired by the power and energy of the fastest plane in the world, the 'Supersonic'-themed fundraiser will blow guests away with a premiere three-course dinner and lively entertainment underneath a Concorde Jet.

Melbourne Surge and Sydney Stingers water polo clubs are to use their rivalry to raise cash for the bush fire-ravaged parts of the Tasman Peninsula.

Their traditional Australia Day grudge match will generate cash for the Red Cross Tasmanian Bushfires Appeal 2013 on Saturday (26 January).

Gay American singer Adam Lambert urged residents of Maryland to vote yes on a law protecting gay marriage at a fundraiser last night (25 September).

Appearing at the 9.30 Club in Washington D.C, Lambert spoke and performed at Marylanders for Marriage Equality.

He said: ‘The thing I like about Question Six is that it’s really not about politics at all.

'Yes you have to vote in order to choose yes but you don’t have to be a Republican or a Democrat.

A second high profile campaigner for the Proposition 8 ballot initiative that banned same-sex marriage in the US state of California has been arrested and charged with a crime this month.

Earlier this week a key fundraiser for the effort was charged with molesting young boys over a 30 year period.

The tragic story of a young man who was frozen out after his lover died is set to make the leap from YouTube to the big screen thanks to crowd funding.

Shane Bitney Crone was naturally devastated when his partner of six years Tom Bridegroom tripped and fell off a roof on a trip to Paris.

But what happened next - when Bridegroom's family refused to recognize his rights as Tom's lover - made the pain even harder to bear.

Now that he has come out in favor gay marriages, President Barack Obama is no longer using surrogates to speak out against state ballot initiatives that seek to ban them.

Obama appeared at a campaign fundraiser on Tuesday (12 June) in Maryland and urged voters to defeat a measure that, if it qualifies for the ballot, would prevent gay marriages which were just signed into law on March 2 by Gov. Martin O'Malley.

Cher wanted to live tweet all about meeting President Barack Obama in Beverly Hills on Wednesday but her phone died.

So the Oscar-winning icon made up for it by sharing a series of tweets and twitpics today (8 June) with her more than 660,000 Twitter followers.

Cher was accompanied to a star-studded LGBT fundraiser at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel by transgender son Chaz Bono and her youthful-looking mother, Georgia Holt, who turns 85 on Friday.

'I LOVED MEETING PRES!' she tweeted. 'He was Warm,Funny SO SWEET 2 MOM!'

Wanda Sykes was late arriving to the An Evening With Women benefit in Beverly Hills on Saturday because she spilled red wine on her blouse.

Then when she took the stage to perform some stand-up, she was jokingly irritated by everything from the smoke machine to the interpreter for the hearing impaired audience members.

Then the band scheduled to go on after her was tuning up behind the curtain of the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel while Sykes was on stage and she got really irritated - and it was no joke.

On the heels of last week's historic endorsement of gay marriage, President Barack Obama talked about his hopes for the repeal the Defense of Marriage Act during a pair of high-profile appearances in New York City.

On ABC's The View Tuesday (15 May), Obama said of DOMA, the legal prohibition on federal recognition of same-sex marriages: 'Congress is clearly on notice that I think it's a bad idea.'

Obama's appearance on The View was taped on Monday, the same day he appeared at a $5000-a-head LGBT fundraiser at the Rubin Museum of Art in Chelsea.

When Vice President Joe Biden said on NBC's Meet the Press this week that he supports gay marriage, the men who created the sitcom Will & Grace were thrilled that he gave their show some of the credit for helping to educate the American public.

'I think Will & Grace probably did more to educate the American public than almost anything anybody has done so far,' Biden said.

Openly lesbian ex-jockey and BBC sports presenter Clare Balding told guests at the Stonewall Equality Dinner that this year’s Olympics will be the most gay-friendly ever.

She was the guest speaker at the annual fundraiser for Britain’s leading lesbian, gay and bisexual campaign organization, held at the Dorchester Hotel on London’s Park Lane last night (29 March).

She told guests: ‘I firmly believe these London Olympics and Paralympics will be the most gay friendly ever.’