Gays

We are not gays: Zimbabwe president Mugabe tells United Nations

That Zimbabwe has one of the worst LGBT rights records in well known, but it was made clearer when the country's president Robert Mugabe used the UN platform to express his disgust towards homosexuality.

Gays 'not accepted' on sports field, face abuse: Survey

Only one percent of people feel that gays are "completely accepted" on the sporting field, while others have been subject to verbal and physical abuse for being homosexual, a new international survey said Sunday.

Russia dismantles memorial to Steve Jobs' after Tim Cook comes out

Promoting "traditional values", President Vladimir Putin last year signed a law prohibiting the spread of "gay propaganda" among minors.

Obama's gay vision lights fire under US's Bible Belt

President Obama's views on same sex marriages is likely to prove highly divisive in America's vertically split society