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Public protests and demonstrations will be allowed in Singapore - at a designated park - with several restrictions, officials announced this week.

Matthew Mitcham, the only openly gay male athlete competing at the Beijing Olympics, won a gold medal in the men's 10m platform on Saturday night.

Leo Abse, a British politician recognised for having taken a leading role in decriminalising sexual relations between adult men in England and Wales, has died at age 91.

In the biggest celebrity union since California's Supreme Court overturned a state ban on same-sex marriage, US talk show host Ellen DeGeneres and her long-time partner actress Portia de Rossi marry on Saturday.

Panama, the southernmost country of Central America, has repealed its 60-year-old sodomy laws.

Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss says he supports the repeal of his country's 145-year-old British-era law which criminalises same-sex sexual relations.

Only 11 of the 11,000 athletes at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games are known to be openly gay or bisexual - and of which only one is a gay man.

Gay relationships can "reflect the love of God" in a way that is comparable to marriage, wrote Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams eight years ago in private letters that have been leaked to the media.

Men who have sex with men (MSM) are 19 times more likely to be infected with HIV than the general population, yet nearly half of the 128 country reports fail to provide any data on MSM, says AIDS group amFAR.

People Like Us, a gay and lesbian group, are inviting submissions for The Rascals Prize, the first ever award for research work related to the subject of LGBT and Singapore.