International Meeting Against Homophobia From May 1st to May 17th International Day against Homophobia from May 1st to May 17th is nearing. The 7th Meeting which will end with “Anti-homophobia and Anti-transphobia Demonstration” is going to make its central activities in Ankara in May. Kaos GL which fights against…

Young gay men and women of Middle Eastern background face particular troubles in Australia – not in the streets, but behind the closed doors of their family homes. David Marr reports. "My brother has a gay son. He came to me black and blue. The father, the sister and the…

Last Sunday Sergey Kondrashov was arrested in Saint Petersburg, Russia for holding up a banner that read: “A dear family friend is lesbian. My wife and I love and respect her … and her family is just as equal as ours." In just five days Sergey will go to…

April 11th 1020 - Stephen Gray Dr Robert Spitzer has said he would like to retract a study he conducted on the result of ‘gay cure’ therapy which has been used to claim that some gay people are able to turn straight. In 2001, Dr Spitzer presented the controversial paper…

April 10th 2012 - BBC Miss Universe says it will allow transgender women to compete in its pageants starting in 2013, a week after a current contestant was reinstated. Twenty-three-year-old Jenna Talackova, a Vancouver resident who was born male, will be able to compete in the Miss Universe Canada…