Two New York high school teachers that were allegedly discovered naked together in a classroom have been charged with misconduct, according to reports. (more…)

Registration opened this week for the Briton and Hove Pride parade, one of the biggest events on the UK LGBT calendar. The event will take place on Saturday 7 August, at the end of the week-long summer festival. The theme of the parade this year is Pride and (No) Prejudice. (more…)

Music makes you gay. I’m sorry to be the one who has to break it to you, writes Bianca Camminga, we don’t even really know each other, but you best come to terms with the fact because it’s pretty much widely known and accepted.

I’m not just talking disco here people, there is a list and it is long. In censorship circles this little known factoid is actually often referred to as the ‘truth’. I understand it may be hard for you to take, I also struggled initially, but you’ll come round. (more…)

After granting the first “sex not specified” certificate to Norrie May-Welby earlier in the month, the Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages in New South Wales, Australia, has withdrawn the status. (more…)

50 protesters from humanist, secular, women’s and gay organisations yesterday accused the Pope of “covering up child sex abuse by Catholic clergy,” calling him a “protector of paedophile priests” and “an accomplice to sex crimes.” (more…)

Two antique wooden dildos have been sold at auction for £3,600. (more…)

Holocaust scholars have attacked plans to include images of lesbians kissing in a monument dedicated to thousands of homosexuals persecuted by the Nazis, saying it distorts history. (more…)

The leader of the British National Party (BNP) said he has made the party more gay friendly, despite claiming that he finds gays “creepy”. (more…)

A new law introduced has made it a criminal offence to use threatening behaviour or materials that are intended to incite hatred against someone because of their sexual orientation. (more…)

A US federal judge has ruled that Mississippi school officials violated a lesbian student’s constitutional rights by banning her from wearing a tuxedo or taking her girlfriend to the prom. (more…)

Another party political gay rights row has broken out after David Cameron was filmed stumbling over his words in an interview with Gay Times magazine. The Conservative Party leader was asked why he allowed free votes rather than force his MPs and MEPs to vote for gay equality measures. (more…)

A lesbian wedding that got out of hand ended up with one bride spending a night in a cell after assaulting a bouncer, a court has heard. (more…)

New research into clinical trials in the USA has found that lesbian and gay participants are sometimes being deliberately excluded from participation. (more…)

A transgender woman in the US state of Maryland is suing her local government under the anti-discrimination laws that she was involved in drawing up. (more…)

Mississippi teen Constance McMillen may have been banned from going to her high school prom with her girlfriend, but her luck is starting to turn. Appearing on the Ellen DeGeneres Show on Friday, she was presented with a $30, 000 cheque by the openly lesbian presenter. The money was raised by digital media website Tonic.com, who wanted to contribute to her higher education. (more…)

Your Homes Newcastle is recruiting for people to join its Board. Could you step up to the challenge? (more…)

The Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement (LGCM) has condemned an “outrageous” High Court decision to give a Catholic adoption agency an exemption from allowing gay parents to adopt. (more…)

A journalist from the Independent on Sunday wants to hear what you think about the portrayal of lesbian/bisexual women in film, particularly if you’ve seen Julianne Moore’s new film Chloe.

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The US Episcopal Church has approved the election of an openly lesbian bishop in Los Angeles.

The Rev Mary Glasspool, 56, was selected by the US Anglican body last December, but her appointment was condemned by conservative Anglicans. (more…)

A Catholic adoption agency that refuses to consider gay couples as parents has won its High Court appeal.

Leeds-based Catholic Care launched the legal action, saying it would have to give up its work finding homes for children rather than comply with legislation stating it could not discriminate against prospective parents who are gay. (more…)

Lady Gaga’s latest music video has provoked a decency debate in the US with a FOX News commentator declaring it “poison for the minds for our kids”. (more…)

The Pope has confirmed the date of his controversial first visit to the UK. (more…)

Are your L Word DVDs worn out? writes Kaite Welsh Did your ex steal your copy of Aimee et Jaguar? Never fear, the London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival is on hand to provide you with some new favourites. (more…)

The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) recognised outstanding achievement in the fields of television and journalism this weekend, at the 21st Annual GLAAD Media Awards. (more…)

Australia has become the first country to openly acknowledge  the existence of people who feel that they do not define as male or female. (more…)

A US prom has been cancelled after a female student asked to attend the event with her girlfriend.

The event at Itawamba County Agricultural High School in Fulton, Mississippi, was cancelled by the school board because of “distractions in the educational process”. (more…)

Queer Up North International Festival has revealed the first glimpse of the line up for their May 2010 event. Europe’s first queer arts festival, based in Manchester, celebrates its 18th anniversary this year. Organisers have decided to commemorate the milestone by re-presenting key works from past years alongside their usual programme of world or European premières, and new commissioned work. (more…)

A South West charity has come under fire after advertising a job for specifically lesbian, gay and bisexual applicants. (more…)

Microsoft has been accused of censorship after its search engine Bing was found to filter non-pornographic lesbian and gay searches in Arabic countries. (more…)

New research by the University of Malmo in Sweden has found that young Swedish women are more likely than their peers in other countries to have sex with and have sexual thoughts about other women. Young Swedish men were also found to be “sexually fluid”. (more…)

West Yorkshire adoption agency Catholic Care have told a High Court judge that they would rather close down than place at-risk children in the care of gay couples. (more…)

The Conservative Party has compiled a list of out lesbian and gay candidates who will stand in the next general election. (more…)

Women across the world have today celebrated the 99th anniversary of International Women’s Day (IWD). (more…)

Angelina Jolie has been confirmed as the actress who will play Kay Scarpetta in a film version of lesbian novelist Patricia Cornwell’s best-known character. (more…)

Last week the editor of Pink News publicly ‘outed’ herself as straight in the Guardian. ‘So what?’ some might sigh. Surely in this modern world of alleged equality, we gays should well know how sexuality is not a factor in how well someone can do a job? But if this is the case, asks Chloe Setter, how come so many people have got their pink knickers in a twist? (more…)

The launch of an online networking site for professional lesbian women raised nearly £700 for charity. (more…)

Coronation Street has confirmed it will run its first lesbian storyline with characters Sophie Webster and Sian Power, who are best friends in the soap. (more…)

Slovakia will become the final country in the European Union to hold a gay Pride festival. (more…)

The House of Lords has voted in favour of allowing civil partnerships to take place in churches, synagogues and other religious buildings. (more…)

The editor of the gay news website Pink News has ‘come out’ as straight. (more…)

A third of the lesbian and gay community in Edinburgh have been physically assaulted because of their sexuality, according to a study by gay rights charity Stonewall Scotland. (more…)

Education officials in South Africa are investigating reports that a girls’ boarding school dormitory was closed and 27 pupils expelled after lesbian relationships were discovered there. (more…)

A new rule preventing the promotion of lesbian and gay marriage came into force in Lithuania on 1 March. (more…)

Alison Goldfrapp has spoken about her ‘outing’ by The Times newspaper last year in an interview with the same publication. (more…)