Openly gay Senator David Norris announced that he was withdrawing from Ireland’s presidential campaign, after scandal erupted stemming from disclosure of letters he wrote to Israeli judicial authorities, seeking clemency for his former partner who had been convicted of raping a Palestinian teen in 1997.

The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), meeting in Geneva on Monday, voted to grant UN accreditation to the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA) -- one of the oldest international organizations fighting for LGBT rights.

A lesbian couple were among the first responders to assist victims following the shooting massacre in Norway on Friday, when gunman Anders Behring Breivik went on a shooting rampage at a youth camp on Utoya island.

Though LGBT people are already deemed criminals in the West African nation of Ghana, it seems that persecution of gays and lesbians is only slated to get worse, as police services in the western portion of the nation have been ordered to round up all suspected homosexuals.

India's health minister on Monday called homosexuality is a "disease" that is "spreading fast" throughout the country.

As the annual Toronto Pride parade worked its way through the city's LGBTQ community on Sunday, an Islamic religious scholar addressing a 9,000-strong crowd at the annual Journey of Faith Islamic conference said that, in countries governed by Islamic law, homosexuals caught in the act should be executed.

A church in Auckland, New Zealand, has come under attack from vandals after it put up a "gay-dar" billboard on Friday depicting a spectrum from gay to straight, with a cross acting as a gauge.

Russian police have arrested at least 14 LGBT activists for holding a unauthorized gay pride demonstration in St Petersburg on Saturday.

Hong Kong has hired prominent local psychiatrist Hong Kwai-wah, who specializes in “treating unwanted homosexuality,” as a trainer for its social welfare staff.

Voters in Liechtenstein have overwhelmingly backed a new law giving gay and lesbian couples the right to formally register their partnership.

The United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday approved a resolution supporting equal rights for all, regardless of sexual orientation.

A married man vacationing in Istanbul, Turkey, is behind an elaborate internet hoax in which he posed online as an oppressed Syrian-American lesbian blogger who was abducted by government security agents.

An estimated 8,000 protesters -- many throwing stones, bottles, bricks, firecrackers, and eggs -- brought an abrupt end to the first gay pride to be staged in the port city of Split, in southern Croatia on Saturday.

Thousands took to the streets of Tel Aviv on Friday as the city celebrated the culmination of Gay Pride Week with its annual pride parade.

The mystery surrounding the kidnapping of a lesbian blogger in Syria deepens as media outlets report they are unable to verify the woman's identify or the facts surrounding her disappearance, fueling speculation of an elaborate internet hoax.