David Bowie’s celebrated refrain 'We can be heroes, just for one day' is the key message behind the London Gay Men’s Chorus (LGMC) new concert.

Honouring the people who have contributed to bettering the everyday lives of the LGBT community, the aptly titled Heroes will be performed at Cadogan Hall in the UK capital from the 24 to 25 May.

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.

Televangelist Pat Robertson continued his pattern of anti-gay comments on his 700 Club show Monday when he claimed that gay people can change their orientation just as murderers, rapists and thieves can change.

Robertson was telling his viewers about a case in Ecuador where a politician made anti-gay remarks and was found to have violated his country’s electoral code’s prohibition on discrimination.

Robertson said speaking out against homosexuality is not 'hate speech.'

An Ohio politician is urging police to treat the murder of a transgender woman as a hate crime.

Cernia Acoff, a 20-year-old known as Cici, was found half-naked stabbed, dumped in a pond tied to a concrete block and a steel pipe.

She was found 17 April, three weeks after she went missing on 27 March.

John Sullivan, a UK Independence Party candidate in the upcoming council elections, has changed his Facebook name after GSN revealed anti-gay comments he made online.

Two days after Gay Star News broke the news he appears to have changed his name to ‘Lyndon Sullivan’ and seems to have deleted the homophobic remarks.

One of the strongest opponents to equal marriage in France has admitted to ‘accidentally’ voting for the bill.

Henri Guaino, from opposition party UMP, voted for the bill on Tuesday in the final vote on the ‘Marriage for All’ bill.

He has been extremely outspoken regarding the bill, with him writing a book calling for a referendum on gay marriage.

Reserve Australian army officer and former senate candidate Bernard Gaynor has been disciplined by the Australian Defence Force (ADF) for comments about Islam and the army marching in the Sydney Mardi Gras LGBT rights parade.

Gaynor said on Facebook yesterday that he had been charged seven times by the ADF for, in his words:

The head of the French parliament has received a letter containing gunpowder, ordering him to put off tomorrow’s vote on marriage equality.

Claude Bartolone, the Socialist President of France’s National Assembly, received the threatening letter today (22 April).

The one-page letter warns: ‘You wanted war, and you’ve got it.’

An anti-gay senator has said the Ireland constitutional convention voting in favor of marriage equality was ‘flawed’.

Rónán Mullen, an independent politician, has said senators were made to feel bad if they did not take the ‘politically correct’ position.

The 100 convention members casted their historic votes on 14 April in Dublin with 79 voting in favor of marriage equality.

Croatia’s first openly gay politician has reaffirmed his commitment to legalizing same-sex unions.

Damir Hrsak, who recently declared his homosexuality in an interview, also announced his run for European Parliament as Croatia prepares to join the European Union on 1 July.

In a translated interview with news website Jutarnji, Hrsak said: ‘The LGBT population is just one of the discriminated communities in Croatia. I believe that communities who care about human and animal rights will recognize my efforts in the fight against discrimination’.

Senator Jeff Flake thinks there will come a day when Republicans will rally around a presidential nominee who supports gay marriage.

The Arizona politician made the prediction today (31 March) to reporter Chuck Todd on the news show Meet The Press.

'I think that's inevitable,' Flake said. 'There will be one, and that I think he'll receive Republican support, or she will.'

A 27-year old gay man running for mayor in Solesino, Padova, northern Italy, has called for ‘the end of the debate about my homosexuality’.

Matteo Pegoraro, who is running with the local party Solesino In Movimento, said: ‘Too many newspapers are labeling me as “the gay candidate” and this is not right.’

Pegoraro said: ‘A politician is a good one when he is honest, when he says “no” to the mafia and to the worst practices in politics, when he tries to give dignity to the people.