One brave gay New York subway passenger has become a global internet sensation after boldly standing up to a hate-speaking homophobic preacher during a packed train trip late last week.

US national team footballer Robbie Rogers has become the first active international player to reveal they are gay, after coming out in a blog post late last week.

Hollywood star Jodie Foster left plenty in the entertainment world and elsewhere confused yesterday while many others were inspired after delivering a cryptic and rambling speech at the Golden Globe Awards where she publicly hinted for the first time she was a “loud and proud” lesbian.

The openly lesbian queen of US daytime television, Ellen DeGeneres, will be coming to Australia later this year to spend time with Australian partner Portia de Rossi and film segments for her highly rated talk show.

The founder of PFLAG (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays), Jeanne Manford, has been remembered in the US and across the world as a pioneering ally of the LGBT community following her death this week at her Californian home, aged 92.

The re-election of President Barack Obama has been described as a watershed moment for LGBTI rights in America, with yesterday’s election day also seeing the first openly gay politician to be elected to the US Senate as well as marriage equality legislation successfully passing for the first time via ballot box in not one, not two but three states.

Barack Obama has been re-elected as president of the USA with many crediting his ability to reach out to minority groups such as Hispanics, the African-American community and LGBTI people as key to defeating Republican opponent Mitt Romney.

Wouldn’t it be great if we all had a publicist to clean up the mess we make in taxis at drunk o’clock every weekend? Well, if you’re Paris Hilton, you do.

As pressure continues to build on Australia’s major sporting codes to do more to tackle homophobia, controversy has erupted on the baseball fields of North America after Toronto Blue Jays player Yunel Escobar was spotted displaying an anti-gay message on his eye-black strips used to deflect sun glare.

Locating information on the internet about bisexuality may be a little easier now with reports Google has decided to modify its auto-complete search function so it will no longer block the term ‘bisexual’.

Matrix director Lana Wachowski has this week publicly discussed for the first time her much-talked about transition to female which she revealed was decided upon after a family dinner in Sydney a decade ago.

A young gay footballer who was forced to miss his first American college football game through concussion says he has even more pain to deal with now after he was kicked off the team for kissing his much-older boyfriend.

Famed American author, essayist, screenwriter and political activist Gore Vidal has died aged 86 at his home in the Hollywood Hills.

The US Democratic Party seems like it will soon make marriage equality a part of its party platform as a new poll shows 65 per cent of Democrats supporters back same-sex marriage.

Dharun Ravi has been sentenced to 30 days jail for spying on his former gay Rutgers University roommate, Tyler Clementi, who later committed suicide.