(Dublin) Nearly 20 percent of LGBT Irish citizens have attempted suicide and one in three has self-harmed at least once according to a report issued by the government on Monday. It also found widespread physical attacks and rampant school bullying toward the LGBT population. The report, Supporting LGBT Lives: A Study of ... Full story...
(Rome) The Archbishop of Canterbury sought Thursday to downplay the implications of the Vatican's unprecedented invitation for Anglicans to join the Catholic Church as he arrived in Rome for his first talks with the pope on the new policy.
(Manila, Philippines) A Philippine gay rights group is waging a legal battle to be allowed to run in next year's polls after the Elections Commission ruled it cannot register as a political party on grounds that it advocates immorality.
Vigils will be held on Sunday across the country to honor the lives of Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado of Puerto Rico and Jason "Jaysen" Mattison Jr.
(Hong Kong) A prominent mainland Chinese director banned by Beijing from making movies brought his new gay romance film to Hong Kong on Friday for what is likely the last of a handful of screenings on his home soil.
(Toronto)Canada's Federal Court says the country's refugee board must reconsider the case of a lesbian who deserted the U.
(Washington) More than 150 Christian leaders, most of them conservative evangelicals and traditionalist Roman Catholics, issued a joint declaration Friday reaffirming their opposition to abortion and gay marriage and pledging to protect religious freedoms.
(San Francisco) The Miss California USA pageant director who became embroiled in a war of words with former title holder Carrie Prejean has donated 30-seconds of free ad time to the state's largest gay rights group.
(San Juan, Puerto Rico) Murder charges were filed Wednesday in the slaying of a gay teenager whose decapitated, partially burned body was found last week, while U.
Jason Mattison Jr., 15, an openly gay high schooler, was found dead last week in his aunt's home; the suspect charged, Dante Parrish, 35, was a family friend.
(New Brighton, Minn.) The split over gay clergy within the country's largest Lutheran denomination has prompted a conservative faction to begin forming a new Lutheran church body separate from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
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