A case which involves a group of four HIV-positive gay men - who allegedly raped victims lured on the Internet, drugged them and infected them with the HIV virus - has shocked the Netherlands and gay communities worldwide.
For the third year running, Sri Lanka's Equal Ground presented its annual weeklong celebration of gay pride in a country where homosexuality is still a criminal offence. Roscoe gives us a run down of the event.
The US government has reaffirmed its policy that bans anyone who ever had sex with another man from donating blood for life despite recommendations by the American Red Cross and two other blood donation centres to lift the ban.
If you are a lesbian, heterosexual man or woman in Melbourne, the management of a gay bar can now legally refuse you entry after a tribunal ruled that the bar has the right to protect their gay male patrons from being harassed and/or "gawked at" as if they were exhibits in a zoo.
The decision to allow openly gay soldiers to serve in the British military has not provoked the massive discord or animosity that opponents predicted would occur.
Not only is the 33-year-old Osaka's youngest ever MP; come July, she will also be the country's first openly gay politician to run for for a seat in the House of Councillors, the upper house of the Diet of Japan.
How is the IDAHO Hong Kong march different from gay pride if the territory were to have one? Connie Chan, a lesbian activist and co-organiser of the third annual International Day Against Homophobia in Hong Kong shares her views. Fridae's Elaine Chan reports from Hong Kong.