Dharun Ravi has been sentenced to 30 days jail for spying on his former gay Rutgers University roommate, Tyler Clementi, who later committed suicide.

R&B and disco singer Donna Summer passed away on Thursday at the age of 63 following cancer-related complications.

Bold and the Beautiful star Joanna Johnson has come out as a lesbian in an interview and revealed she is married to Los Angeles club promoter Michelle Agnew.

A study by the University of Washington has found people do have an inbuilt ‘gaydar’ which can function for some individuals with an accuracy of over 80 per cent.

Against Me! punk rock singer Tom Gabel has come out as transgender and revealed plans to live as a woman with the support of her wife and band.

Pressure has heaped on Prime Minister Julia Gillard following US President Barack Obama’s decision to air his personal support for same-sex marriage during a television news interview overnight.

Gay children’s author and illustrator Maurice Sendak died on Tuesday morning at the age of 83 after suffering a stroke four days earlier.

British Prime Minister David Cameron has denied claims that he is backing away from his promise to extend the marriage laws to allow same-sex couples the right to marry.

US Vice President Joe Biden has been praised and then criticised by marriage equality advocates after he declared over the weekend on national television that he was “absolutely comfortable” with same-sex marriage before his office attempted to downplay the comments.

WORLD: The Republican Party now has its first openly gay state lawmaker with first term Missouri representative Zach Wyatt publicly coming out.

An Iranian man has been hanged to death in the conservative Muslim country for taking part in homosexual activities, according to recent media reports.

A Catholic priest in Northern Ireland is on sabbatical leave and has asked to be moved from his parish after he “inadvertently” showed images of gay pornography to parents of children preparing for their First Holy Communion a month ago.

Over a quarter of a million people have signed a petition calling upon the Boy Scouts of America to reinstate an Ohio woman as leader of her seven-year-old son’s local pack after officials earlier this month decided to kick her out for being lesbian.

The US psychiatrist who recently repudiated a controversial and much-criticised study claiming gay people could change their sexual orientation if they were “highly motivated” enough has now also publicly apologised to the gay community and victims of reparative therapy.

Viewers tuning into the morning news on a regional Canadian broadcaster last Friday morning got more than the usual round-up of politics, sport and crime when a technical error by a cable company led to three minutes of hardcore gay pornography being screened instead.