It does not matter whether you are gay, bisexual or straight, there is a worldwide call to combat homophobia with a kiss this week.

Across the globe, there will be several 'kiss-ins' promoting the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia.

In the UK, Manchester's Lesbian & Gay Foundation will 'Kiss Hate Goodbye' with a flash mob on 18 May.

Grahame Robertson, a spokesman from the charity, told GSN: ‘The Kiss Hate Goodbye flash mob and campaign in general is a chance for everyone to make a big statement against LGBT hate crime.

American Family Association issues analysis director Bryan Fischer has refused to comment on whether he had ever felt sexually attracted to another man.

Fischer was speaking on The Alan Colmes show on Fox News Radio about his belief that homosexuality is a choice and Colmes asked him when he chose to be heterosexual.

‘Have you ever had a gay impulse?’ Colmes asked Fischer.

‘I am not going to talk about that,’ Fischer said.

‘I’m not going to go there. Give it a rest.’

L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican’s newspaper, has written the French law on gay marriage is ‘divisive'.

The Vatican publication added: 'It is a very ideological move, something that does not respect the will of the majority.’

In fact opinion polls show 58% of French people support the new law.

The ‘Mariage Pour Tous’ bill, which was passed by the French parliament on Tuesday (23 April) was also criticized yesterday (24 April) by the Vatican’s spokesman, Federico Lombardi.

The Church of Scotland is going to debate allowing gay ministers to have sex.

A theological commission has produced a report on the issue of whether the church should ordain ministers who are in same-sex relationships.

Put forward by seven members of the commission, a spokesman told the BBC the report included a broad spectrum of the Scottish Church views.

Slovenia’s Constitutional Court has ruled that the country's law on inheritance and succession discriminates same-sex couples.

Speaking this morning (10 April) in the eastern European country’s capital, the court’s spokesman said ‘the Ljubljana’s parliament should fix the gap in six months’.

The new rules come after the case of two lesbian women from the Slovenian city of Koper. One of them appealed to the court after her partner died and she found she had no inheritance rights.

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie on Friday (22 March) sought to make clear that he does not endorse controversial gay conversion therapy.

A bill is currently working its way through the state legislature that would ban the practice of attempting to convert gay persons into living a straight lifestyle.

A primary school transgender teacher – who was subject of a ‘shock’ story about her transition in British tabloid newspaper the Daily Mail – has been found dead.

Some commentators are claiming the death was a suicide, although this has not yet been verified.

The death of Lucy Meadows, 32, was announced to pupils and staff at St Mary Magdalen’s School, in Accrington, Lancashire, north west England where she taught.

San Francisco 49er cornerback Chris Culliver has paid a visit to the offices of The Trevor Project keeping a promise he made after making anti-gay remarks in an interview in January.

Culliver tweeted a photo of himself in front of a Trevor Project logo and wrote: 'Great time at LGBTQ the Q is for (question).'

The Trevor Project is a national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to gay and lesbian youngsters.

The reality series Are You Tougher than a Boy Scout premieres in the US tonight (4 March) amid demands that the cable network air a disclaimer distancing itself with the Boy Scouts of America's anti-gay policies.

The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation joined gay Eagle Scout Will Oliver to deliver more than 120,000 Change.org petition signatures to National Geographic Channel headquarters in Washington DC.

Four priests, one who has now left the church, have accused Scotland’s Cardinal Keith O’Brien of ‘inappropriate behavior’ over 30 years.

The Cardinal’s spokesman has said their claims are contested. He is apparently taking legal advice.

O’Brien has previously compared gay marriage to slavery, claiming it is a ‘violation of human rights’ and slammed its planned introduction by the Scottish and parliament and Westminster as ‘madness’.

According to The Observer, which broke the story, the four are all based in the diocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh.

A man is still in a coma after an alleged anti-gay attack in central London.

Police announced they were appealing for help today (6 February) after the serious assault happened on 27 January.

It occurred at around 3.10am in the central gay area of Soho.

In a statement to Gay Star News, a Metropolitan spokesman said: ‘The victim, a 40-year-old man, was standing outside the Prince Edward Theatre when he was passed by two other men.

‘They stopped and a conversation took place after which one of the men punched the victim.

The national spokesman of New Zealand victims' rights group the Sensible Sentencing Trust has written to a parliamentary committee inquiry into same-sex marriage to complain that allowing same-sex couples to marry will lead to more crime and the breakdown of society.

‘The marriage amendment bill will not benefit society at all and will ultimately have detrimental effect on crime at all levels,’ wrote Sensible Sentencing Trust national spokesperson Garth McVicar.