A window in London-based gay and lesbian bookshop Gay's the Word has been smashed. Uli Lenart, manager of the shop, told The Bookseller that the window had been vandalised in the early hours of Sunday morning when the shop was empty. The damage done to the window was in the region of £500, but Lena…

A MAN claims he's dumped his girlfriend and is now gay after taking drugs to ease the pain of a broken foot. Scott Purdy identified as a heterosexual before his go-karting accident. But the 23-year-old claims he quickly went off women and ended things with his girlfriend of six months, after being…

Arab LGBT activists "are defying state-sponsored repression and social stigma" despite legal hurdles, Human Rights Watch and the Arab Foundation for Freedoms and Equality has said. HRW released a report on the challenges and the progress of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) communities…

China’s answer to Twitter, Sina Weibo, today (April 16) withdrew its short-lived ban on homosexual content, after people came out as gay to protest the ban. On Friday (April 13), Weibo—one of the country’s most popular social networks—issued a statement that it had begun a three-month “clean-up” ca…