A Toronto comedian and a Vancouver restaurant to pay $22,000 in compensation for the comedian's anti-gay, profanity-laced verbal attack on two lesbian audience members. The British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal said the comments were discriminatory.

Malaysian school authorities have sent 66 Muslim teenage boys to a correctional camp to learn "masculine behaviors" after their teachers identified them as effeminate.

Hungarian lawmakers approved a new constitution Monday that was blasted by rights groups and the political opposition for measures considered extremely conservative.

Gays in the tiny Balkan country of Montenegro have begun preparations for their first gay pride parade planned for May 31, but with some trepidation.

Several hundred demonstrators gathered outside the locked doors of a London pub Friday evening to to attended a 'kiss-in' protest after a gay couple claimed they were thrown out for kissing.

British health officials said Sunday that gay men will soon be allowed to donate blood for the first time, provided they are not sexually active.

Archeologists have unearthed the skeleton of a late Stone Age man they believe -- based on how he was buried -- is the first known gay caveman.

A Dublin, Ireland, gay couple became the public face of civil unions in the Irish State on Wednesday when they were among the first gay couples legally joined under legislation that passed last year allowing same-sex civil partnerships.

Police in Shanghai raided a popular gay over the weekend, taking more than 60 people into custody for several hours.

More powerful messages: BeLonG To Youth Services in Ireland has launched a new advocacy campaign targeting anti-gay bullying.

Uganda's infamous anti-homosexuality measure -- euphemistically referred to as the "Kill The Gays" bill -- that was scheduled to undergo debate in that country's Law and Parliamentary Affairs committee this week, has apparently been shelved.

The Ugandan Parliament will reconvene next week and is expected to consider the anti-homosexuality legislation often referred to as the "Kill the Gays" bill.

The Isle of Man, a self-governing British dependency, is the newest country to grant same-sex couples the right to civil partnerships.

A Canadian florist has refused to provide wedding flowers to a same-sex couple, according to the event's planner, a violation of the New Brunswick Human Rights Act.

MEXICO CITY -- More than 700 gay and lesbian couples have married in Mexico City since the capital city enacted the first law in Latin America explicitly allowing same-sex unions, just one year ago.