The next wave of anti-gay legislation may be on its way in Russia as lawmakers prepare to draft a bill that would make coming out as LGBT publicly a criminal offense, Newsweek reports.

The critics have weighed in and the people have spoken: the biggest piece of turkey leftover from Thanksgiving is "Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas."

A Latvian lawmaker was forced to resign her position after her scandalous comments about gays posted on Twitter.

What is the secret to success in Major League Baseball? In the case of former New York Mets and Philadelphia Phillies centerfielder Lenny Dykstra, it could be gay extortion. TMZ reports.

“Don’t Say Gay” is now one signature away from being the law of the land from Pensacola to Key West.

DES MOINES (AP) — An Iowa group that advocates for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights is turning its attention to a lesser-noticed segment of that population: the aging and elderly.

NEW YORK -- "Duck Dynasty" star Willie Robertson will talk about his outspoken father as he helps Fox News Channel ring in the new year.

Local groups, following national trends, have come out in support of Planned Parenthood.

The worlds of reality TV, fundamental christianity and hate speech converged Monday when Michelle Duggar, star of the TLC's "19 Kids and Counting" leant her voice to a homophobic and transphobic robocall campaign aimed to put pressure on council members in Fayetteville Arkansas to vote against a nondiscrimination ordinance that would protect its local LGBT citizens.

Former half-term Governor of Alaska and failed 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has been busy playing Santa Claus in Alabama to a pair of anti-gay congressmen with money from her political action committee Sarah PAC.

BAUCHI, Nigeria (AP) — A Nigerian Shariah court has freed two men accused of gay sex and belonging to a homosexual club, saying the prosecution failed to prove its case.

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) — Two South Texas men have been indicted on federal hate-crime charges for the March 2012 torture of a gay African-American man in Corpus Christi.

Move over Michele Bachmann, "crazy" has a new face!

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A second Oregon judge says he is no longer performing weddings after a federal judge overturned the state's ban on same-sex marriage last year.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Four of the 17 Republican presidential candidates have pledged to support a federal constitutional amendment defining marriage as a union between one man and one woman, an anti-same-sex marriage group said Tuesday.

At least four people were injured Sunday after a gay club in the city of Tolyatti in southernRussia was attacked, local LGBT activists said, according to a report from BuzzFeed.

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — A human rights network says four young men convicted of having gay sex have been whipped publicly in an Islamic court in northern Nigeria.

Russian police have jailed six members of an anti-gay Neo-Nazi group, which aims to torture gay teens by humiliating and beating them and posting the recorded incidents online, Gay Star News reports.

Six men from Tunisia were sentenced to three years in jail on Dec. 10 for engaging gay sex acts, local LGBT rights group Shams reports, according to Gay Star News.

Ari Gold releases vibrant collection

Our duty is to publish a weekly LGBT newspaper for South Florida, but we do not operate in a vacuum.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit Monday against Clark County school officials, saying they failed to stop a bully who harassed two boys in a junior high band class almost daily, leading one of them to contemplate suicide.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The ACLU of Kentucky filed a motion in federal court Tuesday asking a judge to hold county clerk Kim Davis in contempt of court for failing to comply with the Supreme Court and issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

A California theater fired one of its actors after he threw out a heckler for shouting anti-gay epithets at the cast. In a recent article in Gay Star News, The Repertory East Playhouse in Newhall fired actor John Lacy, who played the role of Big Daddy in its production of Tennessee Williams’ "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," after he jumped off the stage and confronted an audience member who was making noise and yelling "faggot" during emotionally tense scenes.

Beware! If you plan on sending mail with a Harvey Milk stamp to members of the American Family Association, an infamous LGBT-hate group, your mail will probably never be read.

ADDIS ABBA, Ethiopia — Two groups in Ethiopia say they will hold an anti-gay demonstration in the capital.

The World Meeting of Families, the central religious event of Pope Francis’ first visit to the United States, is intended to convey a message of love and joy as it seeks to promote church teaching on marriage. Yet four weeks away from its opening in Philadelphia, friction is mounting as lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Roman Catholics lobby for a broader role in the event and organizers move to limit them.

MARICOPA, Ariz. (AP) - A member of the Ak-Chin Indian Community in a same-sex marriage is suing the tribe to recognize the union.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) _ As the days and hours ticked by until gay and lesbian couples began lining up for marriage licenses at Alabama courthouses, state Chief Justice Roy Moore said he kept waiting for someone to try to stop it.