Police in Manchester have bailed a man arrested on suspicion of rape. Shortly after 2.30am on Tuesday police received reports that a man had been raped at the Basement Complex, a gay sauna on Tariff Street. "An investigation was launched and a 31-year-old man from the Miles Platting area was arrested on suspicion of rape on Wednesday 30 January 2008," Greater Manchester Police said in a statement. Full story...
Westminster police held a meeting today to reassure local businesses that homophobic hate crime is being tackled in the borough and that numbers of LGBT liaison officers will not be watered down.
Manchester city council is holding an event to honour Alan Turing, the gay mathematician who is hailed as one of the founders of computer science.
The United Reform Church has become the first major Christian denomination in the UK to criticise Uganda's proposed anti-homosexuality bill.
The Australian federal government has opted not to quash laws allowing legally-binding civil union ceremonies for gay couples in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT).
The local MP of a straight couple who are fighting to get a civil partnership has said she is supporting them and will raise the issue in parliament.
Technology entrepreneur and trans woman Kate Craig-Wood has been named the South East’s Entrepreneur of the Year and will now compete for the national title at a ceremony in London today.
London's Transgender Day of Remembrance vigil was attended by the friends and family of two trans women murdered in the UK in the last month.
A survey of New Jersey voters has found that a slim majority are opposed to legalising gay marriage. The research, carried out by Quinnipiac University, found that 49 per cent of 1,615 voters were opposed, with 46 per cent in favour.
A US trans woman who is serving life in prison for murdering her wife has had her request for hair removal therapy blocked again.
A lawsuit has been filed on behalf of 19 patrons who were detained in a police raid on a gay bar in Atlanta, US.
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