HEADLINES
GLEE, MODERN FAMILY & PROJECT RUNWAY SCOOP GLAAD AWARDS:
The most gay-friendly comedy and reality television shows were honoured at the second 2011 GLAAD Media Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday.
UK: DECADE-LONG CELIBACY TO DONATE BLOOD:
Gay men in the UK will finally be allowed to donate blood, but only if they've been celibate for at least a decade.
PINK LOERIE ART COMPETITION LAUNCHED:
The Pink Loerie Mardi Gras & Arts Festival has launched a regional LGBTI fine art competition set to form part of this year’s event in Knysna.
PROFESSOR: GAYS CAUSED FALL OF ROMAN EMPIRE:
An Italian academic is under pressure to resign after he claimed in an interview that gays were the cause of the collapse of the Roman Empire.
UGANDAN STUDENTS ‘PAID TO BE GAY’:
Supporters of Uganda's anti-gay bill are moving to revive the bill while a university group claims that students are being paid to ‘become gay’.
CHRISTINA’S ‘BEAUTIFUL’ MOST INSPIRATIONAL GAY SONG:
Christina Aguilera's song Beautiful is the most inspirational pop song for gay people according to a new poll.
GAY ‘CAVEMAN’ DISCOVERED:
Archaeologists have uncovered the 5,000-year-old remains of what they believe was a gay or transsexual person in the Czech Republic.
ALMOST 9 MILLION LGBT AMERICANS:
A new study suggests that there are around nine million LGBT people in the US, but at least 19 million have had same-sex sexual experiences.
MORE CLAIMS THAT MALCOLM X WAS BI:
A new book adds to evidence that US civil rights leader Malcolm X was bisexual and claims that he had an affair with a white man.
LESBIAN COUNTRY SINGER ANNOUNCES ENGAGEMENT:
Openly lesbian country singer Chely Wright has announced that she is engaged to a civil rights campaigner.
PREACHER BLAMES GAYS FOR TSUNAMI:
An American preacher has blamed the repeal of 'Don’t Ask, Don't Tell' for causing the recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan.
BRITNEY PREMIÈRES ‘TILL THE WORLD ENDS’ VIDEO:
Britney Spears has premièred the stunning video for Till The World Ends, the second single off her new album. Watch it here.
PLANS TO CREATE GAY CEMETERY:
A US undertaker is planning to create a gay-only section in an Atlanta cemetery to honour gay people's "sense of community".
WOMAN ATTACKS ‘GAY’ GAUGUIN PAINTING:
A crazed woman attempted to damage a world famous painting by Gauguin, claiming that the work was "evil" and "homosexual".
GAY BASHER SAYS HE’S GAY TOO:
The man arrested for the brutal beating of a gay man in New York City says he can't be charged with a hate crime because he's also gay.
DJ & HIP-HOP PRODUCER ARRESTED FOR PUBLIC GAY SEX:
A popular New York DJ and hip-hop producer has been arrested for receiving oral sex from another man in public.
COURT UPHOLDS WALMART FIRING OF ANTI-GAY WORKER:
A US Court of Appeals has upheld Walmart's firing of an employee who told colleagues that gays are sinners and are going to hell.
GAY BRIT THREATENED WITH EXECUTION:
A gay British man has returned to the UK after he was arrested, beaten and threatened with execution while working in Saudi Arabia.
GAY OLYMPIAN CAMPAIGNS AGAINST HOMOPHOBIC BULLYING:
New Zealand Olympic speed skater Blake Skjellerup has joined a campaign urging Prime Minister John Key to address homophobic bullying.
DOZENS ARRESTED IN SHANGHAI GAY BAR RAID:
Over 60 people were arrested during a raid on a new gay bar in Shanghai, China, over the weekend.