Caleb Orozco has reported an increase in violent threats during a four-day court case that debated Belize's sodomy laws.

Orozco, chair of United Belize Advocacy Movement (UNIBAM), is campaigning to amend Section 53 of the Laws of Belize, which states ‘every person who has carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any person or animal shall be liable to imprisonment for ten years.’

A group of LGBT rights activists in Singapore has launched a fundraising campaign to mount an appeal against a recent court decision to kept anti-gay law Section 377A which criminalizes sex between men.

Gay couple Gary Lim and Kenneth Chee launched a constitutional challenge against Section 377A. Their lawyer argued that the law challenges Singapore's constitution which says all citizens must be treated equally before the law.

A Zambian LGBT rights activist has been arrested by police directly after he appeared on television to discuss gay rights, and authorities even tried to stop him speaking mid-broadcast.

Paul Kasonkomona had been speaking on Zambia’s MUVI television channel but was snatched by police as soon as he left the building, with police charging him with ‘inciting the public to take part in indecent activities.’

Kasonkomona had been attempting to leave in a vehicle with colleagues, including his lawyer, but was removed from the car for interrogation.

US right wing politican and lawyer Mat Staver warned live on radio that gay marriage will destroy America, split the Republican party, labelling some of its leaders who support marriage equality as 'cockroaches'.

Staver who is the chair of the Liberty Counsel organization spoke yesterday (28 March) to Vic Eliason of Voice of Christian Youth America on Crosstalk, where the two agreed that legalizing gay marriage ‘would be the same as pronouncing the death sentence on America’.

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.’

On the night before International Women’s Day, police officers in Istanbul arrested and harassed 20 transgender women.

Around 4pm yesterday (7 March), police officers broke down their doors with sledgehammers and forced them to go to Beyoglu police station on the basis of ‘providing space’ for sex work.

The majority of the women are allegedly sex workers, and living together for security.

A lawyer from the Social Policies, Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation Studies Association in Turkey (SPoD) criticized the arrest, saying it was not legal.

Kevin Clash, the voice of Sesame Street's Elmo, has asked a judge to dismiss three lawsuits against him.

The gay former Puppeteer quit the much-loved children's show last year after three men accused him of having sex with them when they were underage.

Yes, Jesse Tyler Ferguson is getting married.

And yes, he's a gay man.

But that doesn't mean the Emmy-nominated Modern Family star is obsessing over every detail when it comes to his wedding to lawyer Justin Mikita.

'No Groomzilla here,' Ferguson, 37, tells People.com with a laugh. 'We have a really great wedding planner who is managing everything. It's been very exciting. I'm very picky about things, and everything is coming together nicely.'

A public order court in Khartoum, Sudan has begun deliberating a case of nine men who were arrested and beaten for being gay.

According to LGBT rights activists in Sudan, a private gathering of gay friends at a well-known singer’s flat was raided. Those attending were arrested and beaten by Sudanese police, leaving them badly bruised.

In the first court hearing police stated that a flat in Al-Safia neighborhood, in Khartoum, was raided after neighbors spotted and were ‘angered’ by the attire of the men.

A Cameroonian gay rights lawyer won't stay in the US where his family is seeking asylum.

Michel Togué says he wants to return to Cameroon, even though he just  joined his family in the US last month. In an interview with AFP, Togué said: 'It's my duty to defend human rights and to contribute to a more tolerant Cameroon.'

'It would be cowardly to give up.'

The UK has failed in protecting gay asylum seekers, according to a leading expert.

S Chelvan, a renowned lawyer reputable in asylum claims based on sexual or gender identity, has said refugees are put under increasing pressure to ‘prove’ their sexual orientation.

In a lecture to be delivered this week at the Law Society, he will say some asylum seekers are resorting to film themselves having sex just to prove they are gay to government officials.

The situation is bad for gay men and women in Malaysia, but it's really bad for transgender women who get constantly harassed by the police and their very existence is criminalized under sharia law.