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At least 60 American corporations including Apple Inc, Nike Inc, Facebook Inc, Morgan Stanley, Intel Corp, Xerox Corp, AIG Inc and Cisco Systems Inc have indicated that they will sign on to two legal briefs to signal their support for same-sex marriage.

Sunday night marks the final mass held for gay Catholics at its central London church because the leader of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales said it conflicted with religious teachings on sexuality.

France's lower house of parliament on Tuesday approved a sweeping bill to legalise same-sex marriage and give the same rights to all married couples to adopt children.

The Rights and Liberties Protection Department and the House committee on Legal Affairs, Justice, and Human Rights have held the first of a series of public hearings to consider civil unions that would allow same-sex couples equal marriage rights.

A bill to legalise same-sex marriage in Britain cleared a major hurdle Tuesday, which may see the UK joining a growing list of countries around the globe 

'Tomboy' students at Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University (SSRU) in Bangkok are demanding the right to attend school wearing pants as part of their uniforms after their professors banned them from doing so, reported the Bangkok Post.  

A gay South Korean man has been awarded refugee status in Canada as South Korean conscripts, especially homosexual ones, are "highly likely to face abuses."

Abdul Rohman, a faculty member at Indonesian Islamic University, writes in The Jakarta Post that it is imperative to foster dialogue between religious groups and gay communities, and for religious groups to reach out to them and learn how to synchronise their situation with Islam.

Intersex people, who are biologically not entirely male or female, will be able to list their gender on passports as "X" while transgender people will be able to pick whether they are male or female without having to undergo surgery, if their choice is supported by a doctor's statement.

Religious authorities in the Indonesian province of Aceh say they are unsure of how to handle a case involving the marriage of two lesbians as same-sex marriages are not dealt with under local Islamic laws.