US: Petition calls on White House to include LGBT questions in school survey
Activists are petitioning the White House to include LGBT-specific questions in a proposed school climate survey.
Video: Trans community speak of their hurt at Julie Burchill’s Observer article
Scottish Transgender Alliance is championing a YouTube video that shows personal individual responses to a transphobic article published in the Observer this month.
Ireland: Gay rights group welcomes employment discrimination ruling
Ireland's Equality Tribunal has ordered an employer to pay €24,000 (£20,190) for discrimination and victimisation on the basis of sexual orientation.
France: Karl Lagerfeld supports equal marriage with lesbian brides at couture show
Fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld has used his lastest fashion show to support equal marriage amidst divides across France on the issue.
Video: East London man suffers anti-gay abuse from ‘Muslim Patrol’ gang
Video has surfaced of a group shouting homophobic abuse at a man in East London.
Pro-gay pastor delivers Obama benediction and says gay people created in God’s image
The pro-gay priest who delivered President Barack Obama's benediction as part of the official inauguration ceremony on Monday said that all people, were "created in God's image", whether "gay or straight".
Video: Gay poet performs reading at official Obama inauguration ceremony
An openly gay Cuban-American poet delivered a moving poem at the official public inauguration of President Barack Obama yesterday.
Russia: Initial hearing of anti-gay bill postponed a second time
A proposed homophobic censorship bill in Russia that was due to enter its initial hearing has been postponed for a second time.
Nigerian anti-gay pastor: Same-sex marriage will wipe out humanity
The general overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God in Nigeria believes allowing gay couples to marry will wipe out humanity.
Chicago: Transgender man prevented from using men’s shower room at spa
A transgender man has filed a complaint with the Illinois Department of Human Rights after the manager of a Chicago spa asked him not to use the men's shower room.
