Georgia’s Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs has been arrested for illegally circulating private video footage online.

The content in question is a gay sex tape allegedly involving prominent journalist Giorgi Paresashvili. 

Paresashvili held a press conference on 4 May, the day after the video footage went viral, saying that the footage was ‘fabricated’ because he was conducting a corruption investigation into Khvedelidze and two other government officials.

Khvedelidze has admitted to circulating the private footage on the Internet.

Before transitioning, Michelle Demishevich was fired from her job as a newspaper journalist in Izmir, Turkey. Now nearly 15 years later she has been hired by Turkish TV channel IMC as a reporter. 

'I have heard of trans columnists but I am the first trans TV reporter in Turkey,' Demishevich said to Bianet.org about her dream come true.

Australian Opposition Leader Tony Abbott’s own daughters disagree with him on the issue of marriage equality, with two of them going public in saying that gay couples should be allowed to marry.

Evan Davis is the first voice millions of Britons hear every morning, as one of the presenters and top-grade journalists on BBC Radio 4's Today program. His background in economics has helped the British public to understand the credit crunch, banking crisis and double-dip recession and he encourages wannabe entrepreneurs to pitch to the investors as presenter of Dragon's Den. 

Davis is also gay and is interviewed this month by online magazine R U Coming Out about how his sexuality has been accepted by himself, his family and the public.

When confronted with Trans Media Watch’s evidence to the Leveson Inquiry into standards in the British press, Dominic Mohan (the editor of the Sun) said on oath to the inquiry: ‘I think we have improved our reporting in these matters ... we’ve raised our game in terms of transgender reporting.’

It's been more than six months since Anderson Cooper finally confirmed that he is gay.

Now he is reflecting more on what it was like to grow up gay saying in an interview Monday (11 March) that 'being gay is a blessing' and that he 'couldn't be more proud' to be.

Mexico’s Supreme Court has ruled that the anti-gay slurs ‘punal’ and ‘maricon,’ both roughly translating as ‘faggot,’ constitute hate speech and are not constitutionally protected free speech.

The Supreme Court judges voted 3-2 on Wednesday in a case where a publisher and his colleagues at the Synthesis newspaper had been slandered with both terms in a column by a journalist at a rival newspaper named Intolerance.

Both newspapers are based in the state of Puebla.

Gay American journalist and anchor Anderson Cooper will be awarded with the Vito Russo award for his work towards equality in the media.

He will receive the award by GLAAD, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.

The Vito Russo award is given to media figures who have come out and contributed towards equality.

Some UK mobile phone carriers are automatically blocking access to gay sites.

An investigation by The Telegraph into UK phone carriers including Orange and 3UK showed that some providers prohibit access to certain sites because they deal with 'mature content'.

Trans Media Watch, the charity who speak-out for fair representation of transgender and intersex people in the media, has responded to a column by controversial British journalist Julie Burchill in yesterday's Observer newspaper.

Matt Damon, sitting with co-star Michael Douglas, director Steven Soderbergh and producer Jerry Weintraub, faced a ballroom filled with journalists on Friday (4 January) to answer questions about the upcoming HBO film Behind the Candelabra about Liberace and his young lover Scott Thorson.

When one journalist asked Damon of he considered the film to be a comedy - perhaps because Liberace was such a flamboyant performer - the actor uttered a quick and definitive 'No.'

A gay underwear model is facing 25 years to life in prison for strangling his older lover to death and castrating him with a corkscrew.

Renato Seabra, 23, was convicted of fatally beating journalist Carlos Castro, 65, on 7 January 2011 in a New York hotel.

Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Daniel Fitzgerald gave Seabra the maximum sentence allowed by law on Friday (21 December).

Prosecutor Maxine Rosenthal argued the Portuguese model is a danger to society and should be locked away for the maximum possible sentence.