The manual used by US psychiatrists to diagnose mental illness no longer lists transgender as a ‘disorder’.

Pop star Madonna has escaped a hefty fine for speaking out for gay rights in Russia as the UN late last week delivered withering criticism of the country's anti-gay 'homosexual propaganda' laws operating in several regions after ruling the legislation goes against basic human rights.

Human rights advocates are once more calling on the Ugandan Government not to pass legislation known as the ‘kill the gays’ bill. The legislation could be approved by Christmas.

In perhaps one of the bigger shocks of this year, evangelical US pastor Ted Haggard – who to this day continues to refute he is gay despite a three-year long drugs and porn fuelled affair with a male sex worker – has come out in support of same-sex marriage during a live online debate.

All charges have been dismissed against two LGBTI rights activists who earlier this year chained themselves to a vehicle dubbed the ‘Hate Truck’ during a protest in Lismore against controversial Christian preacher Peter Madden while on his ‘Queensland Election Prayer Rally Tour’.

Advocates for gay Christians and others have said the “completely outrageous” actions of a Sydney doctor and member of the controversial Exclusive Brethren Christian sect to “cure” a young gay man of his homosexuality by chemically castrating him should serve as a reminder to the community about the dangers of so-called reparative therapy.

Debuting in 1972, Number 96 broke new ground in Australian television for its treatment of then-taboo subjects like homosexuality, nudity and interracial romance. As the show marks its fortieth anniversary, its creator David Sale reflects on its cultural impact and the shape of TV today.

In 2010, Argentina became the first nation in South America to legalise same-sex marriage. But as its gay rights advocates tell Katie Hoskins, the fight for same-sex equality is far from over.  

With the world’s best tennis players in Melbourne this week for the start of the year’s first grand slam tournament, fallout over the widely reported anti-gay views of the sport’s greatest ever female player Margaret Court has continued with organisers forced to distance themselves from her comments, while a leading psychologist has said that Court’s support for ‘gay conversion’ therapies was also deeply concerning.

Ghanaian President John Atta Mills has attacked the UK for insisting Ghana legalise homosexuality or risk losing bilateral aid.

PERTH: The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) has ended with a sense of deflation, after leaders of member nations in Perth over the weekend ruled out supporting a Commonwealth-wide decriminalisation of homosexuality despite being urged to do so by Australia’s Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd.