The North Wales Police Department on Friday said that it will be reinforcing its commitment to equality and diversity by displaying rainbow flag stickers at police front counters across its jurisdiction to encourage LGBTQ people to report anti-gay bias-based crimes.

Homophobic language and bullying are prevalent in schools across Northern Ireland with 98 percent of lesbian, gay and bisexual youth reporting hearing homophobic language in school from pupils, teachers, non-teaching staff and visitors to schools, according to a new study released Wednesday.

Britain's Tory led government has announced that it will reduce financial aid to nations that persecute their LGBTQ citizens.

Anna Grodzka is looking at the possibility of being the first transgender person to win a seat in the Polish Sejm (Parliament), after a new anti-clerical party stormed the national parliamentary elections winning an unprecedented third place finish.

The only openly gay and lesbian Bar in Uganda has been forcibly closed, according to its owner. The landlord padlocked by the property and said the bar was noisy and attracted “strange” persons frequenting it.

British Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday urged reluctant Tory members of Parliament, as well as the Tory party regulars, to support same-sex marriage.

MOSCOW -- Police detained dozens of anti-gay protesters and gay rights activists during a gay pride rally in central Moscow on Saturday.

BELGRADE, Serbia -- Fearing a repeat of last year's violence in the Serbian Capital, authorities have banned Sunday's planned LGBT pride parade and all related public activities.

TORONTO, Ontario — Canada’s National Post newspaper on Friday issued a public apology for publishing an offensive, transphobic advertisement on Thursday that was purchased by the anti-gay Institute for Canadian Values (ICV).

A transphobic advertisement appearing in Canada's National Post on Thursday is calling on the leaders of the three national political parties “stop teachers from confusing” children on issues of gender identity and expression.

The European Parliament has petitioned the World Health Organization to cease classifying transgender people as mentally ill, and to eliminate the current classification pf "gender dysphoria" as a "mental and behavioral disorder" in the WHO’s International Classification of Diseases.

The independent Senator who represents Trinity District in Ireland's parliament, the Seanad Éireann, garnered the support of the Irish capital city's town council Tuesday evening to secure his nomination as a presidential candidate, entering a race already occupied by six other candidates.

Police in the northern Mumbai suburb of Oshiwara staged a raid on a "gay" party at a beach house in the popular Versova Beach area early Sunday arresting 133 persons, including transgender Bollywood film star Bobby Darling on charges of "indecent behavior."

The mayor of the German capital city has been reelected for a third term. Klaus Wowereit, who became the first openly gay leader elected to a German political state office winning his first term as Berlin's mayor in 2001, is known for his populist style of leadership favored by the city's citizens.

The British Equalities Minister, Lynne Featherstone, is unveiling plans for introduction of a measure before Parliament that legalizes same-sex marriage in Britain before 2015. Featherstone, a Liberal Democrat, has also vowed to make Britain "a world leader for gay rights."