An openly gay man living with HIV has been appointed to the Constitutional Court of South Africa by the country's President.

Edward Young has finally proved he is entitled to a war pension, writes Jonathan Dart.

A Revengers Comedy by Steven Dawson - Sex and Cyanide - these are a few of my favourite things.

Kuwait : Under instructions from the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Interior Lieutenant-General Ahmed Al-Rujaib and Assistant Undersecretary for Criminal Security Affairs Lieutenant Ghazi Al-Omar, the Criminal Investigation Department raided a number of restaurants on New Year’s eve and arrested several youngsters — male and female — for drinking alcohol and taking part in ‘wild’ parties. During the raid police also arrested 22 gays, reports Al-Anba daily. The places targeted included cafés and restaurants inside commercial complexes in Salmiya.

Portland became the nation's largest city with an openly gay mayor Thursday as a longtime City Hall insider took the oath of office.

The UK Football Association is planning a new campaign to show homophobia the red card Homophobia has replaced racism as the taunt of choice among bigoted football fans. Now that overt racism is, thankfully, unacceptable and a disciplinary offence, head-bangers on the terraces have turned their perverted minds to homophobic chants instead.

Three other Missouri jurisdictions already recognize same-sex relationships

Chief executive of leading HIV and sexual health charity Terrence Higgins Trust Nick Partridge has been knighted.

Rock Hudson....Hudson was Hollywood's archetypal closeted leading man: wooing Doris Day as the ultimate "manly man" on screen, all while concealing his gay relationships off screen. Hudson shocked his fans when he announced that he had Aids in July 1985. He died three months later.

Alice Springs is to be outed in a television documentary called Destiny in Alice as the lesbian capital of Outback Australia. The documentary takes a satirical and light-hearted look at the town's culture of same-sex love.