British actor Sir Ian McKellen and 27 Nobel laureates have demanded that Russia's President Vladimir Putin repeals the country's homophobic legislation.
Walt Disney World joined other influential businesses in the US state of Florida to throw weight behind a bill to ban anti-LGBT discrimination in the workplace.
Openly gay Labour MP Chris Bryant has been referred to as a "pantomime dame" for the second time, this time by work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith.