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.

Futuristic comic book hero and lawman Judge Dredd has got fans furious as the writers suggest he might be gay.

The latest edition of the comic 2000 AD, set in 2135, is titled Closet and deals with coming out as gay.

When the first page was released online, it showed a figure that looks like Dredd kissing a youth in a gay club.

Some fans have become so hostile to the idea they have threatened to burn the comic if the masculine hero is revealed to be homosexual.

Writer Rob Williams has continued to tease the idea of the character being gay.

The mainstream British media's hate of trans people has been sharply exposed in the last few weeks and the community is hitting back.

Sick of lazy media misrepresentation, vilification and outright hate speech, trans people and allies in the UK have, over the last two weeks, become visible.

While such best picture nominees as Lincoln, Silver Linings Playbook and Life of Pi dominate the major categories of Academy Award nominations announced this morning (10 January), LGBT movie fans had particular reason to cheer with the AIDS documentary How to Survive a Plague getting a nod in the documentary category.

The movie, directed by David France, tells the story of AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) and gives viewers a front-row seat to the epic day-to-day battles that ultimately resulted in AIDS no longer being a death sentence.

Gay British actor Rupert Everett said writer Oscar Wilde, who died in disgrace in Paris in 1900, is his personal Jesus during an interview broadcast on the BBC yesterday.

'He fills me with the same compassion that Jesus fills other people with,' said Everett, who is is currently playing Wilde in the David Hare play The Judas Kiss.

'As a gay person he's really the beginning of the gay movement in public,' said Everett to interviewer Andrew Marr.