A Church of England priest has publicly trashed his superior’s homophobic views.

Reverend Marcus Ranshaw took to Facebook this week calling Justin Welby, the notoriously anti-gay Archbishop of Canterbury, a ‘wanker’ for saying gay marriage would devastate the institution. Welby was speaking during the two-day House of Lords debate where politicians and religious officials argued for or against gay marriage in the UK. 

A game that recreates a battle between LGBT rights campaigners and anti-gay activists in Tbilisi, Georgia on 17 May has gone viral on Facebook.

He has never had sex with a woman but Markus K from Munich, Germany may be the gay dad with the most kids in the world – 22 so far.

Slim, dark-haired and 1.94 meters (6’3”) tall he has 12 children living in Munich, one in Tuscany, one in Vienna, six in other German towns and two still in the womb – they are due to be born this summer.

If both those pregnancies go as planned he will end up with 12 girls and 12 boys. He thinks that’s a good number and may consider stopping.

A New Zealand gay man is taking a bishop to a Human Rights Tribunal after being rejected from training as a priest.

Eugene Sisneros, an events coordinator at St. Matthew in the City church, is claiming the Anglican Bishop of Auckland, Ross Bay, won’t let him into the priesthood because he’s gay, and in a long-term relationship with a man.

A Catholic priest in Australia said committed gay relationships should be met with 'not just recognition but joy... that's the least we can offer people'.

Canberra-based priest Michael Fallon said in an interview with Canberra Times he feared ordinary people were being repulsed from the Catholic church by its hardline views on gay relationships.

As hundreds and thousands of people protest for and against marriage equality in France, the organizers of a rally in Minnesota must have been hoping for a similar turnout.

Sadly for them, hardly anybody did.

As local news coverage estimates, only about 35 people turned up to protest against same-sex marriage in Minnesota.

The speakers, which included a priest and a member of designated hate group Focus On The Family, suggested the cold and rain stopped people from attending.

Love them or loathe them, ABBA remain one of Sweden’s most successful exports with a special place in the heart of many a dancing queen. And ABBA fans are again beating a path to the new ABBA museum opening in May in Stockholm.

But there is a lot more you can do in what they call ‘the world’s most gay-friendly city’.

The four men whose complaints about Cardinal Keith O’Brien's sexual misconduct lead to his resignation deny allegations they were part of a ‘gay lobby’ plotting ‘revenge’ for the cleric’s anti-gay stance.

In a report published today (24 March) by the Observer the four rejected reports quoting church sources who alleged the cardinal had been forced to quit by a ‘cabal of gay priests’ angry at his anti gay rants.

Zimbabwe’s outspokenly anti-gay president Robert Mugabe has slipped into Italy  for the inauguration of Pope Francis despite a European Union (EU) travel ban due to his abuse of human rights.

Mugabe, banned since 2002 due to allegations of vote rigging and human rights abuses, was whisked today (19 March) directly from his plane at Rome international airport to the Vatican.

A priest greeted the 89-year-old president, his wife and son at the airport saying: ‘On behalf of Pope Francis, welcome to the Vatican, welcome to the Holy See’.

In the church Pope Francis I has inherited, it may be hard to believe any normal gay Catholic could be sufficiently devout to have abstained from any kind of sex for his whole life.

But that is what Stephen Guest, now aged 44, has done from 12-years-old when he first started to realize his sexuality.

Guest contacted Gay Star News to question whether we were being fair in our coverage of the Catholic Church. He is not a priest but believes that to have gay sex would be a grave sin. It would condemn his soul to eternal damnation.

The city of Padua, northern Italy, is ‘outraged’ after a Filipino gay group organized a drag queen contest in a parish church.

The meeting room of the San Bellino church hosted the event yesterday (10 March). But the local press have branded it a 'scandal'.

Parish priest, Don Dino Bertato said: ‘The Filipino community asked for and obtained the meeting room, but I did not know what was going to happen.

‘I don’t know if it is wrong or right. It is a very difficult question and I don’t know what to answer.’

Don Andrea Gallo, a religious LGBT advocate in Italy, has said a homosexual pope would be ‘wonderful’.

‘A homosexual pope would be a wonderful thing,’ he told Italy’s Radio 24. ‘There is equality of the children of God. It is the essence of the Gospel, we are all sons and daughters of God.’

Gallo added: ‘A homosexual priest should be free to express his or her identity and her sexuality, otherwise it represses and becomes pedophilia.’