June marks LGBT month for the United States, a move campaigners says is designed to “renew our commitment to the struggle for equal rights for LGBT Americans and to ending prejudice and injustice wherever it exists.” (more…)

Tonight (Monday 31 May 2010) the BBC airs The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister, a period drama  based on the fastidiously-detailed diaries of an 18th century gentlewoman. Here Kaite Welsh gives the lowdown on what to expect from the scandalous Miss Lister. (more…)

The BBC will screen a drama next week based on whom many regard as Britain’s first modern lesbian.

The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister, starring Shameless actress Maxine Peake in the title role, is based on the decoded diaries of Anne Lister – a Yorkshire landowner and industrialist who died in 1840 aged 49. (more…)

Over half of Americans now accept lesbians and gay men, according to a new poll.

US pollster Gallup found that 52% of Americans now believe lesbian and gay relationships to be “morally acceptable” – a 12% increase from 2006, when the question was first asked. (more…)

The headliners for this year’s Manchester Pride will include Beverley Knight and Belinda Carlisle, organisers confirmed today (26 May). (more…)

A lesbian kiss between two characters in ITV soap Coronation Street has been cleared by communications regulator Ofcom, following complaints. (more…)

A new report published by Stonewall reveals that lesbian, gay and bisexual asylum seekers are being failed by Britain’s immigration system. (more…)

This week’s heroine is: Josephine Baker (1906 – 1975)

Also known as: The ‘Creole Goddess,’ ‘Black Pearl’ and ‘Bronze Venus.’ (more…)

Doncaster Pride has received a £24,500 grant from the National Lottery following the council’s decision to scrap funding for the event last year. (more…)

US rock star Courtney Love has claimed she had a one-night stand with English supermodel Kate Moss while in Italy a decade ago. (more…)

Juno actress Ellen Page is star in a film about a dying woman who struggles to secure pension benefits for her lesbian partner. (more…)

Reports of a violent police crackdown on marchers in Saturday’s Slavic Pride in Belarus are continuing to emerge following the release of seven marchers arrested during the event. (more…)

The first openly lesbian bishop has been ordained in California by the US Episcopal Church.

Mary Glasspool, 56, becomes the second openly gay bishop in Anglican church history, after Gene Robinson was ordained in November 2003. (more…)

Former education secretary Ed Balls has come out top for his gay voting record ahead of a Labour Party leadership election vote. (more…)

Today is International Day Against Homophobia (IDAHO) – a day to highlight the inequality and homophobia that LGBT people still face across the world. (more…)

This week’s heroine is: Dusty Springfield (1939-1999)

Also known as: Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O’Brien OBE (no wonder she ditched it for something snappier) (more…)

A lesbian filmmaker and activist from Iran has said she fears for her life after being refused asylum in the UK. (more…)

The Conservative’s new Minister for Women and Equality, Theresa May, is being urged to resign from her position due to her voting records on key equality legislation. (more…)

ITV’s Tonight programme which aired last night (Thursday 13 May 2010), showed an investigation into attitudes towards homosexuality in the UK and the rise in homophobic hate crime. (more…)

Lady Sovereign has confirmed reports that she is a lesbian.

The 24-year-old rapper fuelled media speculation whilst participating in this year’s Celebrity Big Brother, when she told fellow contestants that she had slept with women. (more…)

A US Baptist Minister has resigned from an anti-gay therapy group following allegations that he holidayed with a male prostitute. (more…)

Prime Minister David Cameron has made Theresa May the minister for women and equality. (more…)

Current laws that allow lesbian and gay asylum seekers to be deported to countries where they face persecution are being challenged as part of a three-day hearing at the Supreme Court in London. (more…)

Queer women in the West have never had it so good. Visibility turns the extraordinary simply ordinary, and every woman in the public eye who comes out as lesbian or bisexuality helps thousands of other women to come out too. (more…)

A military student at the University of North Carolina in the US claims she has been told she will have to pay $80,000 after revealing she is a lesbian and breaking the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy of the American army. (more…)

An American university has rescinded their original offer for Dr Jodi O’Brien to head up their College of Arts & Sciences, after allegedly being coerced by donors to drop the openly gay candidate.

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How queer is Gay Pride? With its corporate sponsors and expensive after-parties, Prides across the UK seem happy to forgo politics for pop – and stepping into the gap are proudly queer alternative festivals. But do either sides truly represent LGBT culture? Siobhan McGuirk investigates…

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Conservative Margot James has become the second publicly out lesbian in Parliament after winning the Stourbridge seat in the West Midlands. (more…)

Country music singer Chely Wright has announced she is a lesbian.

The 39-year-old, known for 1990s singles ‘Shut Up and Drive’ and ‘Single White Female’, told People magazine she “hid everything” because she was worried her sexuality would alienate her from the conservative country music community.

“There had never, ever been a country music artist who had acknowledged his or her homosexuality,” she said.

“I wasn’t going to be the first.”

She added: “Nothing in my life has been more magical than the moment I decided to come out.”

Wright releases her new album Lifted off the Ground and memoir Like Me later this week.

Gay rights charity Stonewall has launched a guide on how to support young people who are lesbian, gay or bisexual. (more…)

L Word actress and screenwriter Guinevere Turner was among a host of stars that completed Stonewall’s seventh annual Brighton Equality Walk last weekend. (more…)

Pop star Pink was among a host of stars who performed at the annual gay and lesbian benefit dinner of the LA Gay and Lesbian Center last weekend. (more…)

An influential prospective Conservative MP was this weekend exposed as the founder of a church that claims to ‘cure’ homosexuality with prayer. (more…)

You’ve set the date for your big day. You’ve read all the legal stuff about notifying the registrar, you’ve picked the venue and maybe even trawled through a few of those bridal magazines with endless pictures of ceiling-high cakes and improbably-scaffolded dresses. But how do you make the day right for you? Lorraine Douglas has some tips… (more…)