The Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams has told a private meeting of influential MPs that he is not prepared to allow Church of England buildings to host religious civil partnerships. The government intends to implement a House of Lords amendment to the Equality Act that would allow churches, synagogues, mosques and other religious buildings [...]

Krystian Legierski has become Poland’s first openly gay elected official. The nightclub owner, entrepreneur and LGBT rights activist won a seat on Warsaw city council last month. The Green party member ran on a Social Democrat ticket. Mr Legierski, who is black, has suffered racism and homophobic but told Gazeta Wyborcza that although his election [...]

If it makes Kristin Chenoweth feel any better, Newsweek is in dire financial straits. The wee Emmy winner penned an angry comment (one of many, actually) on the weekly’s website Friday, up in arms over an article titled “Straight Jacket,” which argued that gay male actors, such as Glee‘s Jonathan Groff, have a hard time pulling off heterosexual romantic leads. [...]

Stephen Baldwin, the lesser known of the Baldwin brothers, known for his recent appearance on UK’s Celebrity Big Brother and The Celebrity Apprentice in the US, has been mouthing off about homosexuality in a recent interview with The Guardian. Baldwin, brother of Alec, Daniel and Billy, is a born again Christian, with a history of [...]

A few weeks ago, a young gay couple decided to be the first to “marry” in the African nation of Malawi where homosexuality is against the law.  As a result, they were arrested and are awaiting trial. Although spokespersons for the Malawi government have stated the couple’s arrest was as much for their own protection [...]

Recently, Bernice King, the youngest daughter of the late and great Civil Rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., has taken the lead role as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), which was founded by her father in 1955 after Rosa Parks was arrested for failing to give up her seat on a [...]