The Equality Forum reports that 471 of the nation's 500 biggest companies now include sexual orientation in their employment discrimination protections.

In South Africa, a Pretoria High Court judge has ruled that a church acted illegally when it fired a music teacher at the church's Art Academy after it found that he was in a homosexual relationship.

A new online reporting facility for victims of homophobic and transphobic bullying has been launched by Educational Action Challenging Homophobia (EACH). The scheme is available to young people throughout the UK, and to adults in the West Country of UK.

Under Saddam Hussein, gay life in Iraq existed relatively peacefully in a "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" sort of vein. Since the US invasion and the rise of sharia law, gays have been routinely rounded up, raped and murdered.

An Australian teacher quit his 15-year-long teaching gig after students put two and two together and found him on a gay sex site.

What message will Gov. Palin be sending the nation's LGBT teens tonight?

The gay and lesbian media company Gaydar is expanding its empire into China, the world's largest internet market, with a social networking portal that will target a gay population of more than 50 million people.

English club Stonewall Lions FC has convincingly won the Gay World Football Championship today at Leyton Orient’s league ground, the Matchroom Stadium, in London.

John McCain states loudly and clearly that he supports the ban on openly gay soldiers.