A two thousand-strong crowd turned out for Delhi’s third annual Pride over the weekend, the first to be held since homosexuality was decriminalised last year. (more…)

Ilene Chaiken, creator of both The L Word and it’s reality series spin-off, The Real L Word, is developing a new show about a lesbian doctor. (more…)

The best-selling fourth book by lesbian author Sarah Waters, The Night Watch, is being adapted into a television drama for BBC 2. (more…)

Iranian queer-feminist photographer Tara Inanloo has been granted asylum in the UK as a political refugee, her facebook support page has announced. Inanloo, 21, believed she would be executed if forced to return home due to the nature of her work.

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A Bristol councillor has been suspended from the Conservative party after complaining that the openly gay actor Sir Ian McKellen was visiting local schools.
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They came. We saw. But did it conquer? Lip Service’s brief but memorable showing on late night BBC3 is over, writes Chloe Setter.

It managed some impressive viewing figures, drawing in a 9% audience share – double the usual for that slot – and more than 500,000 each week, not including repeats and iPlayer downloads. But did people actually like it? And will there be a second series? (more…)

This week’s hero is: Anne Lister (1791–1840)

Also known as: Anne was also known affectionately as ‘Fred’ to her lover, and – less affectionately – ‘Gentleman Jack’ to her neighbours. She was played by Maxine Peake in the BBC drama The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister aired in early 2010. (more…)

A French lesbian couple are set challenge the country’s gay marriage ban in Constitutional Court. (more…)

Soap actors Brooke Vincent, Sacha Parkinson and Antony Cotton are publicising Manchester schools-based anti- homophobic bullying scheme “Taking Action Together” as part of Anti-Bullying Week. (more…)

An Australian private school has been accused of discrimination after banning a lesbian student from attending a formal dance with her female partner. (more…)

People who are gay, lesbian or bisexual are coming out earlier than ever before, according to gay rights group Stonewall. (more…)

Lip Service, the iconic new lesbian TV series that’s had us glued to our TVs for the last month, is released on DVD today (Monday 15 November 2010). (more…)

A long-running study of 78 lesbian-parent families has found that none of the adolescents in the study have been physically or sexually abused by parent. (more…)

The fourth annual Gaywise Festival, GFest, launched yesterday with a series of exhibition openings and talks. (more…)

Gay, lesbian and bisexual charity Stonewall have named former shadow Home Secretary Chris Grayling their Bigot of the Year, for saying that Bed and Breakfasts should be allowed to turn gay couples away. Former professional ruby player, Gareth Thomas, was awarded the Hero of the Year prize. (more…)

Ten years ago, in the picturesque town of Olympia, Washington, Ladyfest was born.

Emerging from the embers of the influential riot grrrl scene, this new DIY, non-profit festival embraced the resurgence of grass-roots feminism sweeping the USA and Europe. (more…)

This week’s hero is: Claude Cahun (1894-1954)

Also known as: Lucy Renee Mathilde Schwob

Our heroine’s social scene: The surrealist hangouts of 1920s-1930s France, and Nazi-occupied Jersey in the Channel Islands (more…)

Male and female life models are required for anatomy lessons on the fourth series of the Channel 4 series ‘The Sex Education Show’. (more…)

Trainee Police Constable Lara Goldie, 28, killed herself after being bullied by her instructors, an inquest heard yesterday. (more…)

A lesbian couple’s application for a civil marriage licence was today refused by Greenwich register office in south-east London, sparking a new legal challenge against the ban on same-sex marriage in the UK. (more…)