Queen Latifah set to headline Long Beach Pride Festival
Actress Queen Latifah has been announced as the headline act for this year's Long Beach Lesbian and...
Worcestershire plans county-wide picnics for Pride
The county of Worcestershire will be celebrating the Pride season with a series of picnics across the county.
India’s largest transgender festival begins
Koovagam, the largest transgender festival in India, and in Asia, has opened in the eponymous village near the south Indian town of Villupuram, roughly 160 km southwest of Chennai.
Tennessee’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill to be dropped
The so-called 'Don't Say Gay' bill, which would have interdicted elementary and middle school teachers from discussion of homosexuality and gender identity, looks set to be dropped without a vote, after a key Republican sponsor announced that he simply would not bring it up, local media organisations report.
Romney’s openly gay spokesperson resigns due to anti-gay backlash
Richard Grenell, the openly gay man who was appointed as foreign policy spokesperson by Mitt Romney's presidential campaign, has resigned from his position, due to fierce opposition from anti-gay conservatives, the Washington Post reports.
Russia: Police arrest gay rights activists in St Petersburg
Russian police force have arrested seventeen gay rights activists during a May Day rally in St Petersburg, which recently passed a law that banned what it called 'homosexual propaganda.'
Law to wipe gay sex convictions given royal assent
The Protection of Freedoms Act, which will enable men to wipe the records of thousands of convictions for consensual gay sex under now-repealed laws, has received Royal Assent today.
Catholic group: Objections to anti-gay marriage petition in schools are ‘sinister and illogical’
A religious group unofficially representing the Catholic Church in the media has said questions over the legality of promoting the Coalition for Marriage anti-equality petition to schoolchildren are 'illogical and sinister'.
Boy Scouts of America official resigns in protest over expulsion of gay mother
A regional official of the Boy Scouts of America has resigned in protest at the expulsion of a gay mother from her son's group for being a lesbian.
Convicted murderer ‘killed neighbour after second gay advance’
A convicted murderer has told a court he killed his neighbour, claiming he became 'very, very angry' after the man made a sexual advance.
