The founder of the Virgin Group, Sir Richard Branson, has become the most high profile figure so far to film a video for the Out4Marriage campaign, which calls for global equal marriage for gay couples.

A 20-year-old woman has been jailed after she launched a physical attack on a young lesbian who had kissed her partner on a train.

World Club champions Leeds Rhinos are dedicating their Stobart Super League Round 24 fixture against Widnes Vikings on Friday August 10 to celebrating lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality.

Over 45,000 people around Europe have had their in the European LGBT survey, so far. Are you one of them?

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… the lapine Ms O’Hare will be joined by Kaydee Langer, Anna Rexia, Candy Warhol, and the religious voive of the nation, Miss Smilin’ Kanker.
My basement, 10pm, no cover charge.

You may have noticed a lack of referendum blogging round these parts.  I admit I can’t be bothered.  I don’t even know if I’ll vote. That for me is terrible.  But both sides and the issue itself are not energising me anyway. Or they are making me terribly angry at the inaccessibility, scare tactics and [...]

Members of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender groupcommemorated the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO) with a message of hope and appeal for dialogue and change.

That’s one of the things he says in this video shot by GQ while he was bing shot by Mario Testino for the magazine.

Deciding how to vote in the upcoming referendum on the European fiscal treaty is very difficult because every second economist has a diametrically opposing and equally passionate view from the economist before, and if people whose whole raison d’etre is understanding these complex things can’t agree, how are we non-economists supposed to know who’s right?
So if your brain is a little fried from trying to work it out, take a break with this much simpler question: which of the two cutest visitin…

If you’ve spent any time in Dublin gay clubs over the past year or so you’ll know identical twin Venezuelan dancers Emilio and Orlando – at least to see! They’re hard to miss. Check them out in this sweet clip.
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47 percent of Russians believe the media can turn people gay, a state-owned polling agency says.

Governments, organisations and individuals around the world have been marking this year's International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia today.

Angela Eagle, the first female MP to enter a civil partnership, has called on the government to introduce marriage equality legislation and take gay couples out of 'limbo'.

Well, you make and do, I'll criticise. Pantibar, 10pm, no cover charge.

The consequences of abandoning marriage equality plans in the face of opposition by would-be theocrats would be disastrous for the Tories, for LGBT people and for democracy, Adrian Tippetts argues.

A group is reportedly targeting websites related to the Eurovision Song Contest in Azerbaijan in protest at a 'parade of homosexuals' it believes will take place.

Hundreds of people have signed a petition to the New York Times saying it 'sexualised' the death of a transgender woman in a report this weekend.

Some of the country’s most senior politicians responsible for the education sector have come out in support of the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO), May 17.

The Archbishop of York has said that while allowing gay couples to marry in civil ceremonies may meet their 'emotional needs', if they are not experiencing legal discrimination it would be a 'misuse of the state'.

Given that today is International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHOT), it is a great opportunity to make your voice heard in the EU LGBT Survey!

Peter Bone, one of the most outspoken Conservative party critics of the Government’s plans for same sex marriage equality, has lost his place on two influential House of Commons committees.

Today is International Day Against Homophobia & Transphobia (IDAHO Day), it is a day when we are thankful for how far we have come but try to remotivate ourselves for the fights we have ahead. What does homeophobia/transphobia mean to you?

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… and that seems like a good excuse to post this clip again. Big Bird singing at Henson’s memeorial service at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York. It remains one of my all time favourite clips on YouTube – sweet, moving, sad, and wonderful.
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Today is International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO), the event is being marked internationally and has grown hugely over the past number of years.  UN agencies and major human rights organisations are invovled in marking the day and launching initiatives, research and policies promoting good practice. Senior Irish Politicians involved in the education sphere [...]

Ben and Jerry's the ice cream maker that had already launched a special scoop, Apple-y Ever After, to celebrate equal marriage for gay couples sent the UK Minister for Equality, Lynne Featherstone her own personalised ice cream tub.

Michael Cashman has become the first member of the European Parliament to join the Out4Marriage campaign. The former star of British soap opera EastEnders says that equality should also mean that straight couples should be entitled to hold civil partnerships should they wish, something that the Government is not currently...

I always like this vista when I pass it.

Legislation for the option of civil marriage for Israeli citizens who cannot be wed via religious institutions, including same-sex marriage and marriages between members of different faiths, like Muslims and Jews, was rejected by the Israel parliament, or Knesset.

A Lithuanian MP notorious for his anti-gay views has said gays should be driven from the country, interrupting a press conference in the Parliament building.

For the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia 2012, over 50 European politicians and leaders from EU institutions have joined forces to tell LGBT teenagers they are working to make things better.

The Advertising Standards Authority has responded to claims by a religious blogger that correspondence it sent him requesting he comply with an investigation into a Coalition for Marriage advert amounted to 'persecution'.

A Danish vicar has apologised to the bereaved partner and daughter of a woman he refused to bury because she was a lesbian.

A short film set in the Austrian army has been released free online ahead of the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia tomorrow.

Michael Barron, Executive Director of BeLonG To will address the first UN meeting to stop homophobic bullying in schools at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) this afternoon.

My gurl Jenny just spotted this poster in Taylor Square in Sydney Australia. There are going to be a lot of disappointed Irish queens at that.... quiz?

A former Danish government minister as equated gays with the hermaphrodite 'killer snails' plaguing the country in an argument against gay marriage rights.

The Advertising Standard Agency has upheld complaints about an advert by Irish bookmaker Paddy Power which asked viewers to 'spot the trans lady'.

Two men were sentence for jail terms and deportation from the UAE following a complaint from a member of the public.

I get asked this a lot. The age ranges are startling to me. Given that I didn’t figure it out until I was 20, I’m flabbergasted these kids have figured things out, in some cases, before they’ve learned to read. Nobody has asked me this who isn’t 100% committed to making sure that the child [...]

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The One Direction US invasion gets a helping hand fromthe cast and crew of the Broadway production of Anything Goes.
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I'd forgotten a young Clive Owen was even in the movie version of Bent till I stumbled across this famous (and unexpectedly hot) scene while trawling YouTube.
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Men in Black 3 star Will Smith has said that the debate about wether gay couples can marry is all about “about semantics."

The Israeli newspaper Haaretz has become the latest publication around the world to call on its Government to introduce full marriage equality. Israel recognises same sex marriages, so long as they are conducted outside of the country. Within Israel, only religious marriages can take place, so gay and straight couples...

Rapper Jay-Z has backed US President Barack Obama's announcement last week that he supported equal marriage rights between gay and straight couples.

So, it's Tuesday and I'm only recapping. Why? Well, to be honest, this is shite. Sorry but it is. I was sold The L Word in Glasgow and by gum that's what I want!

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Paul Cameron, founder of the Family Research Institute has said US President Barack Obama's support of equal marriage rights for gay couples lends 'credence' to claims that he had gay relationships and that the 'the long term goal of the homosexual movement' is to ensure children can 'try' or 'maybe be forced' to...

The UN's human rights office has released a video of High Commissioner Navi Pillay speaking on the human rights of LGBT people around the world ahead of the International Day Against Homophobia on Thursday 17 May.

Police in Portsmouth have launched a new operation to target homophobic abuse following reports of anti-gay message directed at people outside gay and gay-friendly venues in the city centre.

A Pathé report on a very intimate men's fashion show from 1951 where the camp and revealing designs are only out-gayed by the models and the men in the audience. Some of the ass-cheek baring designs are actually pretty outrageous, especially for 1951. And if you were in any doubt as to the gay intentions of the designer, he gives a very camp narration explaining his designs: "For leisure, could you resist this hand-knitted, slip-over, double-barred in white?"
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51 percent of Britons think the government should go ahead with its plans to allow gay and straight couples equal access to civil marriage.

Stephen Spillane writes that gay members of the Church of Ireland must immerse themselves more following its recent vote on marriage and 'normative' relationships.

The UK's leading LGBT media outlets have issued a joint statement today calling on readers to respond to the government’s consultation on how to introduce civil marriage equality between gay and straight couples in England and Wales.

The editor of Telegraph Blogs has told PinkNews.co.uk he did not accidentally tweet the outcome of a government investigation into Catholic schools and the Coalition for Marriage's anti-gay marriage petition after a dinner with Michael Gove.

Through dirty looks or sly comments, which were thrown my way and uttered either in the halls of my secondary school or by teammates of an all girl’s football team (half of whom I have spotted inside The George), I was made to feel ashamed.

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Good Dolly! This is a real war pic and not a staged erotic shoot.

Via Queerpop where it says:
Found in the December 2002 issue of B&W magazine, in an article about the man who took the picture, Horace Bristol; he was a member of a Navy unit of photographers, and thus ended up being on the plane the gunner was serving on, which was used to rescue people from Rabaul Bay (New Britain island, Papua New Guinea), when this occurred:
"...we got a call to pick up an airman who was down in...

President Barack Obama has continued to speak out in favour of equal marriage while attending a celebrity laden fund-raiser in New York. After being introduced by openly gay star Ricky Martin, President Obama said: that all people are "equal in terms of dignity and in terms of respect."

Depending on your point of view/taste/drug regime you will either love or hate Jedward's at their first Eurovision press conefrence in Baku - but euther way you've got to love their insane popcorn outfits.
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Running all this week in Pantibar's basement as part of the Dublin International Gay Theatre Festival is No Fats, No Femmes:Tales Of Dialing-Up, Coming Out and Getting Off.
From the USA, writer/performer/bear Tim Paul shares his salacious stories from his 17 year romp with the internet. On the ultimate hunt to find the mustachioed man of his dreams on-line, he falls prey to a series of unwitting seducers, from a sociopathic nanny and a Mormon with a secret past, to a twink turned porn star a...

A month remains until the close of the government's consultation on how to implement civil marriage equality for gay and straight couples.

An event launching a report on the way the internet affects LGBT life in Iran will be hosted in London this week, days after it was announced that the country was to execute four men on sodomy charges.

My answer to that questions is; is it arse? As long as women are treated differently, earn less and have to fight for reproductive rights, there will be women fighting the good fight.

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One half of the double-act which won Britain's Got Talent on Saturday night says her co-star harbours an attraction for a male cocker spaniel.

Of the members of Parliament to have made early public statements on marriage equality, those who are likely in principle to vote for the government's proposals to allow gay couples to marry outnumber opponents three to one.

Suffolk's LGB&T Network hopes to celebrate the region's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals when the event returns this June.

Stephen Twigg, the first openly gay man to be elected to the UK's House of Commons, has declared his support for marriage equality in the Out4Marriage campaign.

The General Synod of the Church of Ireland has passed a motion affirming the church’s traditional teaching that marriage should be “of one man with one woman”.

A commentator for a British online magazine has said campaigners 'demonise' the working class by supporting equal marriage rights for gay and straight couples.

The General Synod of the Church of Ireland has passed a motion confirming its opposition to the recognition of gay marriages and describing straight unions as the only 'normative' context for a sexual relationship.

This year’s Dublin Writers Festival hosts some of our favourite authors and poets. Here’s a little preview of who is coming to town this June. We are truly spoiled for choice this year, with readings, discussions, debates, workshops, performance and screenings taking place in venues all over the city.

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Within days of President Obama formally declaring his support for equal marriage, the American magazine Newsweek has named him the first ‘gay’ president in its front cover.

For all the anti-equality campaigns by some politicians and right-wing religious groups, United Kingdom has been chosen as the best place in Europe for gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people in terms of legal rights, according to a study by the International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA) Europe.

Consecrative MP for Caulder Valley, Craig Whittaker says he worries that changing the law to allow gay couples to marry could lead to legalisation recognising three-way relationships or polygamy.

Two senior Conservative ministers have come out against prime minister David Cameron’s plans to introduce equal marriage for same sex and opposite sex couples. Defence Secretary Philip Hammond said the plans were “too controversial” while Families Minister Tim Loughton told a constituent that marriage must only be between…

A woman who made startlingly graphic and homophobic comments during an anti-discrimination legislative hearing in Lincoln Nebraska, the video of which went viral within days, has been described as having ‘mental health problems’ and being diagnosed with schizophrenia.

The Governor of North Carolina, Democrat Beverly “Bev” Perdue, has denounced the recent passage of Amendment One, which outlaws all civil unions outside heterosexual marriage, which she said made the state “look like Mississipi.”

When I was 17 years old I was already a ditzy queen and turned up on the wrong day to register at art college. And so instead of registering with a big group of other excited and nervous teenagers about to start college together, I found myself surrounded by all the older students who were returning to college for another year, and who were all greeting each other loudly after the summer holidays and knew exactly where they were and what they were doing. I felt awkward and shy. And when I found…

Just as Australian military marks the twentieth anniversary of making it possible for gay men and women to serve openly in the military, the victims of a Facebook hate page that revealed and threatened gay members serving therein, have filed a law suit over the army’s handling of the scandal.

The Law Society, which represents solicitors in England and Wales, has banned a conference organised by the World Congress of Families, an organisation that considers only a heterosexual marriage as the centre of a “natural family.”

Iran court sentence four men from the town of Choram, in the Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, to death by hanging for sodomy.

Four men named ‘Saadat Arefi’, ‘Vahid Akbari’, ‘Javid Akbari’ and ‘Houshmand Akbari’ are due to be executed shortly after their verdict was approved recently by high court judges, according to…

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I just haven't decided what age yet.
Pantibar, 10pm, no cover charge.

And yet Lucille Ball still manages to steal the picture. 
Check out the full size pic of MGM's stable of stars from 1943 by clicking on the pic. And then click again on the bigger pic to full size it so you can check out details like Lucille's gorgeous belt detail.
Full list of who's who below.

Front Row: James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan, Lucille Ball, Hedy Lamarr, Katharine Hepburn, Louis B Mayer, Greer Garson, Irene Dunne, Susan Peters, Ginny Simms, Lionel Barrymore
Second Row: Har...

Every person who comes out acts like a beacon to so many people. Tom Gabel, lead singer and guitarist with Against Me! will be no exception, congratulations to her for standing up for her truth

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The vice presidents of Costa Rica, Alfio Piva and Luis Liberman have said, in an interview with Amelia Rueda, that gay couples deserve the same rights as heterosexuals, though they stopped short of endorsing equal marriage.

More than half of Americans have said that they approve of President Obama’s support for equal marriage, though 60% of the respondents also said that this announcement would have no bearing on their voting decisions, according to a Gallup/USA Today poll released this evening.

A startlingly homophobic and inaccurately graphic video of a woman testifying at non-discrimination ordinance hearings in Lincoln, Nebraska, has gone viral in the LGBT blogosphere, within a day of its being put online.

Or that if you lick an ass and don’t take a drug afterwards you’ll die in half an hour? Or that a huge percentage of gay men molest boys in school grounds because the boys don’t have AIDS yet? Or that Hilary Clinton “went gay” because she had a lesbian roommate in college who probably seduced her with Rohypnol? Or that gays become sadistic, commit treason, and curse after sex? Or that bisexuals “always” become insane? Oh, and lots more fun stuff!
This is the kind of anti-gay crazy I can get …

Mohammed Hasnath, the man fined for putting up stickers in east London declaring it a ‘gay free zone’ has been jailed for possessing material from terrorist group al-Qaida.

Students at the University of Wolverhampton who launched an 8,500-strong petition in favour of marriage equality for gay and straight couples will be holding an awareness day next week.

President Obama has, at last, moved with the flow of history and an unstoppable global trend towards equality, writes Peter Tatchell.

Matthew Todd writes that he has watched the Conservative party’s evolution with nervous optimism and that if those MPs now speaking out against marriage equality have their way, the ‘dark and divisive’ instincts of Conservatism will be revealed to a new generation.

Celebrities including Stephen Fry, Britain’s Got Talent judge David Walliams and The Saturdays have already pledged their support of introducing equal marriage in the UK.

Next Thursday, May 17th, the Transgender Equality Network Ireland (TENI) will be launching a book, Touching the Surface: Trans Voices in Ireland. This landmark publication celebrates trans experiences from across Ireland and will be launched by the Deputy Lord Mayor, Cllr. Maria Parodi.

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An FDA panel in the US has approved the administration of the drug Truvada to at-risk but uninfected people in an effort to prevent the spread of HIV, though experts warn condoms must remain the ‘bedrock’ of such efforts.

The gay partner of a deceased Catholic priest has been told he is allowed to have his lover’s pension, despite the cleric’s vow of chastity.

The traditional Chinese folk art of making edible sugar drawings is apparently rarely seen anymore. The best part is at the end when he puts it on a stick for the kid to eat – though seems a (delicious) pity to eat it.
You might want to skip ahead a bit because the first minute is just him melting the sugar in a small wok.
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Contrary to what you've probably heard, the Christian church's idea of marriage has not been the same for thousands of years. In fact, it used to be perfectly fine with gay marriage. And gay marriages between men were recorded in Ireland too.
Read the full text HERE.
Prof. John Boswell, the late Chairman of Yale University's history department, discovered that in addition to heterosexual marriage ceremonies in ancient Christian church liturgical documents, there were also ceremonies called ...

It's probably a little longer than it needs to be, but it's very fun, and very smartly done. (And on a totally ancilliary point, Cybil's wardrobe is so gorgeous - so daytime chic)
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New Zealand's prime minister has said he is 'not personally opposed' to allowing gay couples to marry, but added that it was not part of the government's legislative programme.

A motion to affirm the Church of Ireland's view of straight marriage as being the "only normative context for sexual intercourse" has been removed from this week's General Synod meeting after it provoked complaints.

Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has found himself responding to allegations that he bullied a gay classmate while at prep school.

Bristol Palin, daughter of former Governor of Alaska and 2008 Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin has criticised Barack Obama for letting his children's views contribute to his support of marriage for gay couples.

The daughter of Cuba’s president praised US president Barack Obama yesterday after he came out in support of equal marriage rights for gay couples.

Did you hear the one about the organisation ‘representing’ newspapers copyright in Ireland sending threatening letters to voluntary organisations/charities who publish links to newspaper articles on their own websites about items that may be of interest to readers? (Breathe it’s a long sentence I know, sorry). That’s links dear reader- not complete articles or scans [...]

And to think he nearly got turfed off The X Factor because he was too shy to dance. That’s when I fell in love with him. Remember? He ran off in an frustrated embarrassed teenage huff and Simon Cowell had to go after him and persuade him to stick with it? That was the pinnacle of Mr Cowell’s career as far as I’m concerned. If he never did anything else – he saved Zayn for the world.
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The US Defence Secretary, Leon Panetta, said today that the repeal of the 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' (DADT) policy, which prohibited openly gay personnel from serving in the military, has not affected military morale or readiness.

In the wake of a national outcry over the homophobic killing of a young man, the Chilean Congress has approved an anti-discrimination bill that outlaws discrimination on the grounds of race, religion, gender, and/or sexual orientation.

When asked if he would follow in the footsteps President Obama in supporting equal marriage for same-sex couples, Taoiseach Enda Kenny refused to be drawn.

The Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, was forced to apologise today, just hours after the Washington Post reported that he had held down a gay classmate, and cut off his bleached blond hair when he was a student at an elite private school.

Stonewall, the UK's leading LGBT charity have said they're "disappointed" that gay marriage wasn't included in the Queen's address to Parliament yesterday.

It's very therapeutic you know. And Dolly knows most of you could do with some therapy!
Pantibar, 10pm, no cover charge.

British girl group The Saturdays have lent their support to the Out4Marriage campaign and urged the public to get on board and support marriage equality for gay and straight couples.

A petition has been launched by AllOut.org to deliver a thank-you card to US President Barack Obama for his support for marriage equality for gay couples.

A footballer in Northern Ireland has received waves of criticism for a series of tweets in which he suggested gays 'anal a girl', adding that he would walk away from gay critics without 'turning his back' on them.

The Church of Ireland General Synod will discuss this week the 'hurt and injury' felt by gay people as a result of the actions taken by those within the denomination in addition to a motion affirming its view that gays should not be allowed to marry.

Religious figures are among those joining the new video campaign for marriage equality, Out4Marriage.

Ana Matronic on fine fun drag form wanting to "have a kiki".
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President Obama declared yesterday that he believes same-sex couples should be granted the right to marry.

London sexual health clinic 56 Dean Street is asking members of the gay community to design an innovative HIV or sexual health awareness campaign.

Oxford will be hosting a 'drag race' this month to raise funds for the city's pride event in June.

Having become the first country in South America to allow gay couples to marry, Argentina has passed a bill giving transgender citizens the right to have their gender recognised in law.

(thanks Peter)

Though I’m not totally sure exactly what part of the body I’m looking at. I think it’s a hip/tummy…

(thanks Orla)

Claiming Our Future are holding a major public event on Saturday 26 May in Croke Park on democratic and political reform.  The movment is about alternatives and has organised events in the past twelve months on income inequality and sustainable development and economics. This time the debates will centre on local government and the way power and decision [...]

In a bill that is the first of its kind, California looks set to partially ban so-called ‘conversion’ or ‘reparative’ therapy that claims to ‘wean people off’ their homosexuality.

Anna Nicole Smith’s daughter Dannielynn is absolutely beautiful, isn’t she? You can see her mother in that face.
Hopefully little Dannielynn will fare better than her tragic mother and brother. According to this article, her protective father only takes her out in public once a year, to the Kentucky Derby, which is probably a good thing. But good Dolly she’s pretty as a painting.

Politicians and gay rights activists have begun to react to President Obama’s announcement today that he supports equal marriage for same-sex couples.

He’s been under increasing pressure over gay marriage the last few days, and he has finally come out in support in a TV interview.

A two-block street in San Diego’s Hillcrest neighbourhood will be re-named in honour of Harvey Milk to mark his 82nd birthday.

Barack Obama, the president of the United States, has announced in an interview with ABC News that he thinks gay couples should have the same legal right to marry as heterosexual couples.

An advert for a t-shirt bearing the slogan ‘Lesbian wanted’ has been rejected by Facebook advert regulators, the Danish producers said today.

With equal marriage laws absent from the Westminster government’s legislative agenda for the coming year, Scottish campaigners say Holyrood is in a position to become a ‘beacon’ of equality by introducing the laws first.

A Conservative MP for Yorkshire has issued a fresh warning that polygamy could be the result of marriage equality for gays.

NAT has launched a new report outlining steps to increase HIV testing at a time of financial pressure on the NHS.

A man who received homophobic abuse on Twitter from a footballer at his club has organised a charity match to draw attention to homophobia in the game.

Brigitte Goldberg, one of two trans candidates in the recent French Presidential election, yesterday expressed herself only slightly moved by the replacement of right-wing Nicolas Sarkozy with socialist Francois Hollande.

Loreen loves THIS.

A gay US student who took a stun gun to school and discharged it to scare off bullies has been expelled from his school in Indianapolis.

The leader singer of Against Me! has revealed she is transgender and will begin living openly as a woman under the name Laura, becoming the first major rock star to come out in this way.

A film by a gay man whose partner died before they could legally marry and his plea for marriage equality on the anniversary of the accident which took his life has been viewed half a million times in three days.

A Russian trans woman refused asylum in Sweden appears today to be defying Swedish authorities by refusing to aid them in their efforts to deport her to Russia.

Voters in North Carolina have approved Amendment One, which introduces a constitutional ban on gay marriages and outlaws even civil unions. The amendment reads: “Marriage between one man and one woman is the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized in this State.”

John Bercow, the Speaker of the House of Commons, is expected to champion the rights of LGBT people in the Commonwealth in a speech next week, the Independent reports.

The Fucking World According To Molly (below) continues in Pantibar’s basement till next Saturday as part of the Dublin International Gay Theatre Festival. Info and tickets at the link.

(pic by Ronan/Gobsmacked Media)
Next week we will be hosting another show, No Fats, No Femmes.
Info about all the shows running at the festival at the festival website.

According to the PinkNews.co.uk voters panel, an invited group of readers representing the LGBT population, LGBT people feel more favourably towards the Conservative Party following the pledge by prime minister David Cameron to introduce marriage equality, although they might not necessarily vote for him. Panel members…

This clip has been cropping up all over the gay internet and a number of you have sent it to me. It’s a sad, personal story told by a young American gay who hopes telling people about his experience will help the push for marriage equality.
I’ll be brutally honest and say that that as a short film, it doesn’t do much for me. I find it mawkish, manipulative and overly sentimental – like a segment in an American talk show – and that never moves me. I don’t want to be told what to feel, I want yo…

A Gallup poll has found that half of the US population believe that same-sex couples should have the same wedding rights, and legal rights born thereof, as heterosexuals, reinforcing other polls that have found a majority support for equal marriage.

PinkNews.co.uk readers Adam Williams and James Swinburne were among the first couples to record an Out4Marriage video. Having supported the Coalition for Equal Marriage from its inception, they recorded a beautiful video this week to kick start the Out4Marriage campaign.

PinkNews founder Benjamin Cohen’s Grandparents say “We think the law should be changed so to allow gays or straights to be married with the same rights as a straight couple” as they come Out4Marriage.

A new cross party and cross media campaign, Out4Marriage.org, to support changing the law to allow gay couples to marry has launched to help spread the message that most people in Britain and indeed the Western world, are happy to “come Out4Marriage”.

The poor exhausted mite! And then once he’s asleep you could kiss his eye-lids with little butterfly kisses. And then you could… well, never mind.
Poor Zayn was so exhausted during a radio interview that he got all confused and confuddled and conflated Malibu and Miami (or something) and the others correct him and laugh at him, and Dear Dolly, look at that last GIF – where he’s giving out to himself for being stupid. Have you ever seen anything more adorable?

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A Welsh Government investigation into PinkNews.co.uk's revelation that the Catholic Education Service encouraged schools to promote a petition against same-sex marriage has concluded that this may have led to schools breaking laws on political balance.

Yvette Cooper, the shadow home secretary, has said it is 'utterly ludicrous' to blame the Coalition government's plans to allow gay couples an equal right to civil marriage for the Conservative party's losses at local elections last week.

Euronut Donal Mulligan is bringinging his all-singing all-dancing, all-glitter Eurovision viewing party extravaganza to Pantibar on the big night again this year and at this stage the production values of the party are almost as high as the event itself. In fact, considering that the Eurovision is happening in Azerbaijan this year, the party may actually supass the actual event!
To get you in the mood (and prove I'm not kidding about how seriously these Euronut gays take their Eurovision-vie...

The new President-elect of France, François Hollande, the country's first Socialist president in nearly two decades, is expected to push equal marriage and adoption rights for gay couples in the European country.

A recruitment drive targeting gay men has lead to a significant reduction in the waiting times for Australian women seeking sperm, according to experts.

A 'gay airline' has been launched dedicated to delivering passengers to the EuroGames 2012 in Budapest.

US gymnast Josh Dixon has come out during his bid to represent the US at the London Olympics this year in a move which would make him the country's first openly gay gymnast at the competition.

US wrestling champion CM Punk has apologised after telling a Twitter user who was ‘sickened’ by the idea of homosexuality to kill himself.

Morning Gaelickers! Let’s start this morning with some postive news from wait for it, the Daily Fail! I know! We posted this story yesterday on our Facebook
page. New York’s lesbian political power couple unveil wedding invitations (but won’t reveal the details of the dresses)

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Three judges from Iowa, who in a historic ruling voted to extend marriage to same-sex couples, and who were subsequently ousted through an orchestrated campaign by right-wing groups, have been honoured by Caroline Kennedy through the Profiles in Courage Award.

The former president of the United States, Bill Clinton, has spoken out against North Carolina’s Amendment One, as the state goes to the polls tomorrow morning.

Following US vice-president Joe Biden’s announcement that he supports equal marriage, the US education secretary, Arne Duncan, has followed suit by saying he supports the move in a live interview with MSNBC.

A mother from Indiana, US, has said that she would gladly ask her gay son to carry a stun gun to school again, in order to confront homophobic bullies, even as the teenager now faces expulsion from the school.

Ahead of the vote tomorrow, recent polls in North Carolina have suggested that Amendment One, which would introduce a constitutional ban on equal marriage, and outlaws even civil unions, looks set to pass. According to US media reports, supporters of the amendment are driving a record turnout in early voting, which is also…

The House of Chiefs in South Africa, also known as the National House of Traditional Leaders, have asked for the parliament to delete a clause in the constitution that guarantees equal rights for gay and trans people, a local news publication reports.

The anti-equality Coalition for Marriage (C4M), formed by an alliance of faith groups to oppose the extension of marriage to same-sex couples in the UK, claims on its website that it now has half-a-million signatures in support of its petition.