The US is expected to sign the UN gay rights declaration sponsored by France and the Netherlands last year - making it the last Western nation to do so, says report.
A shocking report by ActionAid has revealed that not only lesbian women in South Africa are being raped by men who believe it will "cure" them of their sexual orientation, the crimes have gone unrecognised by the state and unpunished by the legal system.
It may be a case of all or nothing as the California Supreme Court considers eliminating the term "marriage" from state statutes and treat both kinds of couples - same-sex and opposite-sex - equally.
In an unprecedented move, organisers of Moscow Pride say they have filed an appeal to the European Court of Human Rights against their city for banning 155 gay pride marches in May last year.
Olympic gold medallist Matthew Mitcham led some 10,000 marchers through the city's Oxford Street gay district in a colourful parade that showed its usual mixture of sequins, flesh and gay rights messages. Photos by Justin Ellis and Nat Cagilaba.
With the 31st annual Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade - the largest of its kind in the world - upon the city this weekend, Fridae's Sydney correspondent Justin Ellis finds the parade to still be relevant to LGBTs today.
The California Supreme Court has to decide whether to defer to the voters of whom 52 percent support a same-sex marriage ban, or reaffirm their original ruling that preventing gay people from marrying is unconstitutional.
Boo Junfeng's short film Tanjong Rhu and Kan Lume's Female Games will premiere in Singapore at the 22nd Singapore International Film Festival, April 14-25.
Gay Asian viewers have expressed their outrage that the words "gay" and "lesbian" in Milk writer Dustin Lance Black and actor Sean Penn's Oscar speeches have been muted out during the recorded broadcasts.
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