Venerablis, a website run out of the Vatican, has been reported as being a gay dating site for Catholic priests.

Despite assurances that he would attempt to overcome internal party differences to push for a bill to legalise civil unions for same sex couples, Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk has backed down in the face of strong opposition and says it is now unlikely that Poland will legalise same sex unions in the immediate future.

“We in Australia pride ourselves on a fair go, but the current inequality in our law means that same-sex couples are forced to travel oversees in order to marry,” says South Australian Labor Parliamentarian, Hon Gerry Kandelaars MLC, who will be progressing his motion in support of marriage equality to a vote on Wednesday in the South Australian State Legislative Council. 

So after months spent compiling data and accumulating survey results and opinions, the Pew Research Centre in the US has confirmed what most of us already know – Ellen DeGeneres is the world’s most recognisable lesbian.

While same-sex marriage is illegal in the Philippines, Archbishop Oscar Cruz, the head of the country’s Catholic Church, says he has no problem if a gay man and a lesbian were to wed.

Out thespian and TV star Neil Patrick Harris is set to take Broadway by storm when he tackles the role of Hedwig in a new production of John Cameron Mitchell’s acclaimed cult musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch.

Marriage equality advocates have presented a 14,000-strong petition to parliament ahead of Thursday’s Senate vote that could allow for the recognition of overseas same-sex marriages. 

Robert Biedron, Poland’s first and only openly gay member of parliament, was attacked and verbally harassed after attending Warsaw’s annual Pride parade.

The newly opened Chicago-based National Gay and Lesbian Sports Hall of Fame has announced its first inductees and the inaugural class includes members of the media, pro athletes and the Outsports group.

Actor Jane Lynch, best known as Sue Sylvester in the musical series Glee, has announced she will split from her wife, Dr Lara Embry.

Tony Abbott’s former parliamentary secretary, Liberal Senator Cory Bernardi, says he has been “proved correct” that allowing marriage equality will lead to demands from fringe groups to endorse polygamy and bestiality.

In light of the June 11 decision by Russia’s state Duma to make law the bill outlawing the ‘propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations’, the International Olympics Committee (IOC) has confirmed their support for LGBT athletes in the lead up to the 2014 Olympics set to be held in Sochi Russia in February 2014.

He’s the singer we love to hate – but it could be that former homophobe Chris Brown is turning over a new leaf. 

After a stellar performance in the All Blacks victory against France on the weekend, NZ rugby star Israel Dagg was a less than shining example off the field when he took to twitter to sledge Auckland Blues player Brendon O’Connor.

A petition has been raised to urge the federal and state governments to include sexuality and gender identity in the new Health and Physical Education curriculum.