Along with electing their President, Americans in 11 states approved constitutional amendments codifying marriage as an exclusively heterosexual institution.
London Police are hunting a gang of teenagers who struck at least four times in 15 minutes, killing a man and injuring at least five others apparently for being gay.
Health officials in Taipei have started tracing 15 men with HIV/AIDS and their sexual partners after they were arrested at a gay party early this month.
Alan Hollinghurst, author of The Line of Beauty, a tale of a young, gay man dazzled by drugs, power and money won the Booker Prize, one of the world's most prestigious literary awards.
Italian researchers say they have discovered how male homosexuality could be passed from one generation to the next despite the fact that gay couples do not procreate.