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August 8, 2012

Comment: Always picked last – rediscovering sport as a gay adult

Daniel Sellers writes about his experience of sport at school and talks to the members of a gay-friendly running club about how it differs from the 'individualism and hedonism' of the traditional gay scene.

August 8, 2012

Bret Easton Ellis: ‘Ludicrous’ to cast a gay actor like Matt Bomer in Fifty Shades of Grey

Bret Easton Ellis, the author of American Psycho, has said it would be 'ludicrous' to cast a gay actor to play the straight male lead in the film adaptation of the sexually-explicit Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy.

August 8, 2012

Matthew Mitcham ‘most influential Australian Olympian on Twitter’

Openly gay gold medal-winning diver Matthew Mitcham is the most influential athlete on the Australian team at this year's London Olympics, according to a PR firm in his home country.

August 8, 2012

Team gold for Britain’s only openly gay Olympian Carl Hester

The only openly gay Olympian in Team GB has helped his equestrian team secure gold at the London Olympics.

August 8, 2012

Liverpool: 52,000 attend city’s third annual Pride celebrations

Over 52,000 people are believed to have attended a rainy Liverpool Pride 2012, organisers have said.

August 7, 2012

Argentina: Gay couple legally recognised as fathers

A gay couple in Argentina have been legally recognised as the fathers of their baby boy born by surrogate. Alejandro Grinblat and Carlos Gustavo Dermgerd had a son named Tobias on June 29th in New Delhi. He was carried by a Canadian surrogate mother.

August 7, 2012

US: Delaware governor says state could legalise marriage equality in 2013

The governor of Delaware is confident that his state will legalise marriage equality in 2013. Jack Markell, a Democrat, told the Huffington Post that work on legislation "probably will" start as soon as the next session.

August 7, 2012

Malaysian gay couple hold wedding celebration

A gay couple in Malaysia have held what is considered to be the country's first gay wedding celebration. Ngeo Boon Lin, a Malaysian-born pastor and his new husband, African-American music producer Phineas Newborn III, celebrated with a front of a crowd of family members, friends and journalists.

August 7, 2012

Mitt Romney ‘supports rights of gay Scout members’

US presidential candidate Mitt Romney is against many gay rights measures, but he does back the right of gay people to join the Scouts. In 1994, he said that while the Boy Scouts of American should be free to set its own policies, he agreed that it should allow gay people to be members, staff and volunteers.

August 7, 2012

Mika comes out as gay

The singer-songwriter, who has previously claimed he was bisexual, has now revealed that he is gay.