In late May, First Lady Michelle Obama will attend a New York City fundraiser for an arm of the Democratic Party committed to LGBT issues.

According to a report from the website Politico the 29 May affair will be hosted by Andy Cohen, the Vice President of Development for the television channel Bravo. Cohen is an out gay man.

The French right-wing party UMP has attacked the Larousse dictionary for its new definition of ‘marriage’.

In the new edition of the 2014 dictionary, which will be published in June, marriage is a ‘solemn act between two same-sex or different-sex persons, who decide to establish a union’.

According to the commentators, Larousse’s move comes after the new French marriage law, which is being discussed at the National Assembly.

Sometimes you find yourself in unexpected conversations.

I was sitting in a frozen yoghurt shop in the old city of Luxembourg, listening to an animated discussion in Luxembourgish, trying to understand the different gay adoption scenarios currently being considered by the country’s legislators.

Hillary Clinton has come out for marriage equality.

On Monday (18 March), the US Democrat made the announcement in an online video released by the gay rights group Human Rights Campaign.

In the five-minute video, she says gays and lesbians are ‘full and equal citizens and deserve the rights of citizenship.’

‘That includes marriage,’ Clinton says, adding she backs same-sex marriage both ‘personally and as a matter of policy and law.’

Morehouse College graduate Brian Alston Carter is proud of the steps his alma mater has taken to be more supportive of its gay and bisexual students. In 2009, the historically all male black college was in the media spotlight due to a new dress code. A few of the items on the 'no list' were dresses, tops, tunics, purses or pumps.

Barack Obama’s team has chosen the Lesbian and Gay Band Association of St Louis to honor the president at his Inaugural Parade on 21 January.

The 2013 Presidential Inaugural Committee has announced they ‘are thrilled that the Lesbian and Gay Band has accepted their invitation to participate!’

HIV among gay men in the Philippines is spreading rapidly, but in an age when the virus is a manageable disease the tragedy is that many are getting sick and dying before taking the test because they fear the stigma.

'It used to be that the friend of a friend of a friend that would catch it but now it’s friends,' says writer and academic J. Neil C. Garcia. 'And they’re just dying. The stigma is so bad they don’t even consult with doctors even if they are getting sick all the time.'

Several people were slightly injured when a homophobic attack occurred in the early hours of Saturday morning, at the entrance of club Cud, in the gay Marais area of Paris, France.

One of the victims, Alexandre Marcel, the vice president of IDAHO (International Day Against Homophobia) charity was among the injured.

A complaint was filed with the French police by Marcel, no arrests have been made so far.

US Vice President Joe Biden addressed transgender rights at an Obama for American office in Sarasota, Florida on Tuesday (30 October).

According to the Huffington Post, Vice President Joe Biden commented on transgender discrimination to a woman in the crowd names Linda Carragher Bourne.

Bourne told the vice president her daughter was Miss Trans New England, a teen pageant that according to their website is 'not affiliated with the Miss American Organization in any way'.

Organizers of a Halloween parade in a US city plagued by a string of gay teen suicides have been branded 'insensitive' after telling LGBT youngsters there was no room for them in the procession.

Justin's Gift, a support group for gay youth which was formed after several suicides at schools in Anoka, were told they would not be able to join the parade on 27 October because it had reached maximum capacity for walking units.

Around 30 children were hoping to take part in the event, touted as the best in the world.

It was US Vice President Joe Biden who jumped the gun with his support of marriage equality no doubt speeding up the timeline of President Barack Obama's own endorsement.

Biden, during a weekend campaign stop in Chillicothe, Ohio, encountered a lesbian couple and said of same-sex marriage: 'It's going to happen.'

The couple, Cathy Pool and Mendy Yates, have been together for 25 years and said Obama and Biden's personal support on this issue meant 'everything in the world.'

US Vice President Joe Biden, paying a visit to Provincetown, Massachusetts, over the weekend to headline a pair of fundraisers, had high praise for the area's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender residents.

'Many of you have advanced civil rights at great expense,' he said. 'If I had to use one adjective to describe this community it'd be courage. You have summoned the courage to speak out, to come out. We owe you.'