NBC’s reality talent show The Voice includes four openly gay contestants. Tyler Robinson, Vicci Martinez, Nakia and Beverly McClellan are among the 32 contestants vying to win NBC’s challenger to Fox’s 10-year-old hit American Idol. “Growing up Mormon was difficult for someone like me,” Robinson, 20, said on the show’s premiere. “I’m gay. Doesn’t define [...]

Ricky Martin has revealed that he believed homosexuality was “evil” before he came to terms with being gay. The star, who came out last year, said: “Being Ricky Martin back then and what I was feeling were not compatible. I was the sex symbol and I needed to dance and I needed to make girls [...]

Historians and archaeologists are dubious over media reports that refer to a recently unearthed skeleton as a ‘gay’ caveman. The remains, found outside of Prague in the Czech Republic, are of a man lying on his left side and facing west, which is how many women of the time were laid to rest. The man [...]

The British government is to lift the ban on gay men giving blood, ruling that a blanket ban is discriminatory and could be in breach of the Equality Act. However, lifting the ban will only apply to gay men who have not had sex for 10 years prior to donating blood. The Sunday Times reports [...]

A new biography of African-American civil rights leader Malcolm X details his “early homosexual relationship with a white businessman,” among other things that he glossed over or ignored in his own accounts, reports The New York Times. The biography, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, was published Monday by Viking Press, three days after the [...]

Elizabeth Taylor’s estimated $360 million may land in the hands of manager and close friend Jason Winters, on whom Taylor “relied in her final years,” according to the Daily Mail. Winters, who is openly gay, met Miss Taylor the late 1990s through their work with Aids victims. The two developed a strong friendship that included [...]

More than 80,000 people have signed a petition calling on Apple to remove a ‘gay cure’ app from its iTunes store. The company is coming under increased pressure to remove the Exodus International app. Apple has not commented but critics have pointed out that it routinely removes apps deemed offensive. Banned apps include one mocking [...]

New Irish foreign minister Eamon Gilmore criticized New York St. Patrick’s Day organizers for excluding the gay community. Gilmore believes that by excluding LGBTs, the parade does not encapsulate “Irishness,” because Ireland is a very accepting place – the Irish pride themselves on equality. “This issue of exclusion is not Irish, let’s be clear about [...]

Gayxample, the new gay-themed series that premiered on Saturday March 12th online through the website: www.gayxample.net with its first chapter “The homophobic nephew.” A potential audience of over 1,800 million people have the opportunity to see on-line each of the chapters in this new series that stands as a showcase for gay Barcelona to the [...]

Insurance giant MetLife will be honored by gay rights group Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) at their annual gala in New York City. MetLife will receive the group’s 2011 Straight for Equality in Business award on Monday, March 14 as part of PFLAG’s third annual Straight for Equality Awards Gala to [...]