Against Me! singer Tom Gabel reveals plans to begin living as a woman in the new issue of Rolling Stone. Gabel, who has dealt privately with gender dysphoria for years, will soon begin the process of transition, by taking hormones and undergoing electrolysis treatments.   Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/tom-gabel-of-against-me-comes-out-as-transgender-20120508#ixzz1uONRsL93

A prominent Russian gay rights activist was convicted on Friday of spreading "gay propaganda" among minors in the first such ruling in Russia's modern history. Full story here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/04/nikolai-alexeyev-russian-gay-rights-activist-propaganda_n_1477867.html?ref=gay-voices

http://www.guyanatimesgy.com/2012/05/07/gay-community-feels-excluded-from-wider-society-–-study/ The Lesbian, Gay, Transgender and Bisexual (LGBT) community here said they have experiences that go well beyond the realm of law enforcement and the criminal system with some of them finding it hard to be accepted as a part of the wider society.

Study finds current laws discriminatory against gays       Written by Clifford Stanley    Guyana Chronicle Saturday,…

A group of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights activists is firing back at an anti-gay group's planned protest of Walt Disney World's unofficial "Gay Days" event. Deeming themselves the "Non-A-Holes," or "average Americans against hatred," the group is hoping to raise enough funding to have a banner flown…