Filipino gay rights activist Oscar Atadero has told Gay Star News that a study that found the Philippines is the tenth most gay-friendly country in the world, and the most gay-friendly country in Asia, is a 'dubious honor'.

'The results of the survey should be taken with a bit of caution,' said Atadero, who is a researcher for Rainbow Rights, adding that with a global survey cultural and linguistic nuances can be lost in translation.

The Media Development Authority (MDA) of Singapore is introducing a tough new rule that will censor websites that are read from inside the country, even if they are not hosted there.

The new rule, which will come into effect on Saturday (1 June), will require local news websites and those that report regularly on Singapore and get at least 50,000 unique visitors from Singapore over two months to apply for an individual license.

After nearly a year on the film festival circuit, the drama I Do is being released in theaters just as the US Supreme Court is poised to announce its ruling on the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act.

'This film is relevant now but it’s been relevant to the hundreds of thousands of people that DOMA’s affecting,' the film's star and writer David W. Ross said on MSNBC's The Cycle this week.

'Hopefully, we can look back and see this film and realize why DOMA has to go - the devastating effects it has on families and human beings.’

Matthew Morrison once had to awkwardly come out as straight to a magazine writer who assumed he was gay.

But that doesn't mean the Glee star is not a fully supportive of LGBT equality. Earlier today, he  released new video for the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) in which he speaks out for gay marriage.

HRC, the largest LGBT advocacy organization in the US, got Morrison to take part in its Americans for Marriage Equality campaign which also recently featured Hillary Clinton, among others.

Writer Bret Easton Ellis and GLAAD are feuding.

The author of Less than Zero and American Psycho went to Twitter and claimed he was banned from the LGBT organization's weekend ceremony.

Writer Jonathan Harvey, whose play and film Beautiful Thing defined coming out in Britain under Section 28, has Tweeted against Margaret Thatcher on the day of her funeral.

Thatcher’s Conservative government introduced Section 28 to the UK in 1988. It effectively stopped teachers from talking about being lesbian, gay or bisexual to their pupils in schools.

Writing on Twitter today (17 April) Harvey states: ‘Young gay men fawning over Thatcher clearly have no knowledge of gay history.’

DC Comics has revealed what they claim to be the first transgender character in mainstream comic books.

In Batgirl #19, on sale from now in both print and digital formats, Alysia Yoeh came out to her roommate main character Barbara Gordon (Batgirl) as a bisexual trans woman.

Speaking to Wired, Batgirl writer Gail Simone, said comic books fans inspired her to create the civilian character.

While the dad who posted the letter to his gay son may be up for Parent of the Year, he might just have some competition.

Two guys, described as ‘construction worker types’, were recorded chatting about their gay sons on a New York City subway.

Posted on SoLetsTalkAboutThis.com by writer Ravi D’Angelo, he claimed he overheard the two middle-aged white men looking like ‘you’d expect to see on a building site’ starting to talk about their families.

The New Yorker magazine has fun with Republicans and gay marriage. Using the real story of Senator Rob Portman's announcement that he now is a supporter of gay marriage, writer Andy Borowitz creates an alternative (joke) world where Republicans have decided not to talk to their children.

A gay writer has petitioned to author the new Adventures of Superman.

David Gerrold, a self-confessed Superman aficianado, has volunteered on Facebook to write the Superman comic after an online petition to remove a current anti-gay writer has gone viral.

Gerrold wrote: 'I see that you have hired a writer for Superman who has written strongly of his opposition to equal rights for LGBT people. And I see that there is an online petition protesting that move.

An American author has responded to internet trolls by pledging $5 to gay and civil rights charities every time he receives abuse.

Award-winning science fiction writer John Scalzi has raised over $50,000 (£32,000, €37,000) by today (6 February).

Trolls attacked the author for a pro-choice satirical blogpost from last year in which Scalzi adopted the persona of a rapist. One troll, which Scalzi affectionately calls 'the Racist Sexist Homophobic Dipshit', took particular issue.