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Police in Brighton are investigating a homophobic assault on a man in the Dukes Mound area by the seafront, after three men approached him as he was walking home at around 1.30 a.m. on Friday 27 August. Read more »

The South East pub operator Faucet Inns has acquired one of London’s most iconic gay pubs, Compton’s, in London’s Soho district. Read more »

Canadian filmmaker’s LA Zombie joins Serbian horror picture and film depicting a wartime London invaded by Nazis at international festival. Read more »

An amateur football club in eastern France has denied a player’s request to return to the team in an attempt to avoid homophobia Read more »

New decision opens doors to LGBT couples in certain Italian churches Read more »

The Australian Olympic swimmer who caused controversy with a comment on Twitter last week will keep her underwear deal with Davenport and Sunrice, but lose her Jaguar. Read more »

The closing of a gay nightclub in Moscow was against the law, it emerged this week. Read more »

Newly elected Liberal Democrat MP Stephen Gilbert speaks out in support of LGBT marriage equality and explains why LGBT rights organisations should be fighting for marriage equality now Read more »

Legislative Council votes in favour of new legislation, with a single Parliamentary vote left to decide the bill’s fate. Read more »

T-Mobile has issued a statement with regard to recent complaints that its network blocks access to gay resources online. Read more »

More than just the world’s biggest mug-clunking, beer-swilling and sausage gobbling festival in the world – on the first Sunday of Munich’s macho beer festival, the Oktoberfest turns a bright shade of pink when the Braurösl tent is filled to the rafters with 8,000 gay men. Most of them in scrumptiously tight-fitting… Read more »

PC Mark Carter appeared at Leeds Crown Court yesterday to plead not guilty to five sexual assault charges relating to alleged events in December 2009. Read more »

Popstar Lady GaGa is reportedly training to become an ordained minister in order to perform gay marriages for her LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered) fans. According to British tabloid, the Daily Star, the bisexual singer has been spurred on by the continuing row over gay marriages in California. Read more »

A Vatican official travelling in Mexico has condemned the country’s capital for legalising same-sex marriages, saying that such unions are only an imitation of heterosexual marriages. Read more »

Serbian gay rights groups are in the process of planning a gay Pride Parade in Belgrade next month. It will be the first such parade to take place in nearly a decade. Read more »

An MP from the Faroe Islands has refused to attend a state banquet held in honour of Icelandic prime minister Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir’s official visit. Read more »

A book detailing the history of homosexuality in the Conservative Party and how its attitudes to it have changed over the decades is to be published by Biteback Publishing next year. Read more »

According to new research published today, reckless sexual behaviour among a subset of young gay men is fuelling the HIV epidemic in Europe and the UK. Read more »

Approximately 400 same-sex couples have married in Mexico, six months after the law permitting gay marriage came into effect. Read more »

Australian Olympic swimming champion Stephanie Rice has been dropped by Jaguar, with whom she had a sponsorship agreement, following her homophobic Twitter comment last Saturday. Read more »