Earlier reports that circulated in Belarus’s media, that plans are afoot in the country's parliament to pass a law that would recriminalize gay sex, were firmly denied.

The US Air Force now has the highest ranking out officer in the country's military.

In a late May ceremony, Patricia 'Trish' Rose was promoted to major general. The proceedings were
led by her direct supervisor, General Janet Wolfenbarger, the first female four-star general in the Air Force.

Gay people should be denied marriage because it would lead to four-way weddings and for the same reason blind people can’t see, Britain’s House of Lords has heard.

The upper chamber of the British parliament had been debating the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill for England and Wales today (3 June) ahead of a crucial, although not final, vote tomorrow.

Peers have also heard, from supporters of gay marriage, the bill will deliver equality, improve society and send a message of support to LGBT people at home and abroad.

Two Police Scotland officers were recorded in a voicemail making offensive comments about a lesbian couple.

Earlier this week, an officer identified as PC Murray with Police Scotland made a routine call to Nicola Reilly, a bouncer at Chalmers nightclub in Bathgate, West Lothian, to get her account of a fight she witnessed.

In the voicemail, the officer asked Reilly to call him back, and then neglected to hang up the line before starting a conversation with another man in the background.

Stonewall has denied advising a Catholic school on student's 'gay' shoes.

St Mary’s Catholic Primary School in Wimbledon, south-west London, called on Stonewall to help students and teachers about dealing with homophobia.

Continuing our mission to profile the LGBT sports organizations of the world, we meet graphic designer Ricardo Mendi Serrano, communications officer for Elaios LGBT sports club which is based in Spain’s fifth largest city – Zaragoza.

When was the organization established?

Elaios was created after some of us participated at the 2003 edition of Eurogames in Copenhagen.

We wanted to organize something similar in Zaragoza.

Twenty-nine countries in Europe are insisting transgender people are sterilized before their true gender is recognized in law.

That represents a major abuse of human rights and must stop, says a new report from the Council of Europe.

In many European countries, sterilization or sex reassignment surgery or both are a requirement for the country to legally recognize a transgender person in his or her new gender.

While gender reassignment surgery may incidentally cause someone to become sterile, some countries also insist on sterilization.

It's not an easy time for Sunil Pant, founder of the largest LGBT rights group in Nepal, Blue Diamond Society (BDS). A government office has sat on the renewal of BDS's license, holding-up funding so that staff haven't been paid for months. LGBTI activists are also being harassed, which Pant links to the same government officer.

A Texas woman is facing jail time after she beat her teenage son with an electrical cord after catching him in bed with another man.

Erica Moore, of Forest Hill, said one night she opened her 15-year-old son’s bedroom door to discover he was not alone, and her teenage male cousin was in the room with him.

CBS-DFW reports as she walked in, she saw her 18-year-old cousin giving oral sex to her 15-year-old son.

The 18-year-old who was seen attacked by a policeman at Sydney’s gay Mardi Gras has said he is not angry at the authorities, just the officer.

In the video, which has now been viewed over 200,000 times, Jamie Jackson is seen being held by the throat, slammed to the ground and stood on by a police officer.

Jackson is seen screaming ‘I did nothing wrong!’ as he is arrested by the police.

NSW Police has announced he was charged with assaulting a police officer, resisting arrest and using offensive language in public.

‘Famous Welsh actor that was married to Elizabeth Taylor’ was about the extent of my knowledge about Richard Burton.

But it had just been announced he was being given a star on the Hollywood walk of fame, and I was in South Wales near the town where he was born, so it seemed like a good opportunity to learn a bit more about this icon of stage and screen.

Although never having formally trained as an actor, Burton was widely recognised and awarded as one of the leading actors of his generation - let’s re-cap some of the key facts:

Chief Warrant Officer Charlie Morgan, a vocal opponent against the Defense of Marriage Act, died earlier today (10 January).

'She made an indelible mark on everyone she met with her integrity, her positive outlook, and her unflinching commitment to righting the wrongs visited upon gay and lesbian military families,' said Allyson Robinson, the executive director of OutServe-SLDN, in a statement. 'The fight for full LGBT equality in this country is forever changed because Charlie Morgan took up the cause.'