MANCHESTER, United Kingdom -- Roger Crouch, the father of a 15-year-old boy who killed himself in May 2010 after apparently suffering from anti-gay bullying, and who then turned tragedy into a campaign for greater awareness and prevention of bulling in Britain's schools, has died.

A vote on Nigeria's proposed anti-gay law is scheduled for next week, according to the group Nigerian LGBTIs in Diaspora Against Anti Same Sex Laws.

St. Petersburg's parliament on Wednesday said it would review a controversial bill banning so-called "gay propaganda that targets children." The law -- which has been slammed by critics as too discriminative -- has been postponed in order to clarify its wording.

Russia’s second city has passed a law banning so-called “gay propaganda.” The law, which has been rushed through the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly, prohibits so-called propaganda of “sodomy, lesbianism, bisexualism and transgenderism, and pedophilia to minors.”

The Mayor of a small town on Peru’s coast is blaming the presence of the metal strontium in its water as the basis for increased homosexuality in his town.

Pakistan has ordered cellular phone carriers to ban the use of about 1,500 words from text messaging that government officials have deemed indecent or offensive -- including the words "gay," "lesbian," and "homosexual."

SHEFFIELD, England -- In a study released this week to coincide with Britain's National Anti-Bullying Week, researchers from the Centre for Education and Inclusion Research at Sheffield Hallam University have revealed that many schools in the United Kingdom fail to properly address homophobic bullying.

A gay, albino Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) refugee has been refused asylum in South Africa in what advocates say is an increasing pattern of refusals for LGBT asylum seekers.

Two regions of Russia – Arkhangelsk and Ryazan – have passed laws banning what they call gay "propoganda" -- laws that have been deemed constitutional by Russian courts despite the chilling of free speech and the attack on LGBT organizing, and ability to protest that they represent. Now the St. Petersburg region wants to introduce a similar law.

LIVERPOOL, England -- The city of Liverpool is installing new street signs in the city's famed gay quarter, the first of which was unveiled outside the Lisbon pub on Stanley Street.

A Ugandan court on Thursday sentenced a man to 30 years in jail for the brutal slaying earlier this year of David Kato, one of Uganda's leading gay rights activists.

CUMNOCK, Ayrshire, Scotland -- Following an emotional ceremony at Old Cumnock Old Parish Anglican Church in the town center, a funeral procession of around 800 friends, family and well-wishers wound their way through the town of Cumnock to the town's cemetery, to pay their last respects to 28-year-old Stuart Walker.

LONDON -- British politician Alan Craig -- head of Britain's christian political party, Peoples Christian Alliance -- has compared gay rights campaigners to Nazis.

The suicide of 15-year-old Jamie Hubley last month -- the Ottawa teenager who had suffered from being bullied -- has renewed a fierce and politically charged debate in Canadian society: Do public figures, as role models for youth, have a responsibility to out themselves?

Zoo keepers in Toronto are planning to separate a pair of inseparable, and -- according to some zoo staffers -- "gay" male penguins so that they can be paired with females for breeding.