We all need more Pride.

Former Irish President Mary McAleese has warned that the Catholic Church’s teaching on homosexuality is "evil."

Former England international John Fashanu has admitted that he paid his late brother Justin £75,000 not to reveal he (Justin) was gay before his death in 1998.

A gay priest prevented from working as a hospital chaplain after marrying his partner will learn the outcome of an Appeal Court challenge in England over his claim he was discriminated against.

A cinema has cancelled a screening of a film promoting therapies to "cure" gay people.

Meanwhile, coach John Kavanagh spoke about what is next for Conor McGregor after his ten round bout with Floyd Mayweather in August.

A gay man in central China has successfully sued a mental hospital over the use of forced conversion therapy.

Crawford graduate Stephen Doyle visited Russia to create portraits of gay people living under that country’s oppressive sexuality laws, writes Ellie O’Byrne.

Human rights activists have said senior officials in Chechnya humiliated people being held and tortured at detention centres during an anti-gay purge.

A man who came out as gay to his family when he was 95 years old has shared his story in a touching video.

Just guys being bros, bros being dudes, dudes being pals.

Attempts to introduce same-sex marriage in the North are set to be thwarted for at least another five years after the Democratic Unionists insisted they would continue to block a law change.

Christian bakers found to have discriminated against a gay man by refusing to make a cake bearing a pro-gay marriage slogan have lost their appeal against the ruling.

A woman has taken to the airwaves after being refused service by a printing company because of her sexual orientation.

This year a group of self-proclaimed homophobic men were given the chance to prove that they are heterosexual.

The Bishop of Grantham has become the first in the Church of England to publicly reveal that he is gay and in a relationship.

A man has been set on fire in what police are describing as a homophobic hate crime.

Author Matthew Todd and members of Irish support agencies talk to Sharon Ní Chonchúir about the need for ongoing progress.

Ireland is lifting the lifetime ban on gay men donating blood.

Pope Francis said gays and all the other people the church has marginalised, such as the poor and the exploited, deserve an apology.

THE difficulty with writing a column with a longer lead time than I’m used to (with this column, it’s ten days) is that I’m often wary of writing about a particular event or incident.

The Orlando massacre at a popular gay nightclub shows no one yet has “found the magic bullet” to prevent Americans from being inspired to violence by jihadist propaganda on the internet, Attorney General Loretta Lynch said as she visited a city still shaken by the shootings.

Gay and lesbian couples are continuing to be discriminated against by employers, including the Government, who are refusing them the right to leave their pension to their same-sex widow or widower if they die, it has been claimed.

Families of some of the 49 people killed in a massacre at an Orlando gay nightclub mourned and buried their dead, a day after US president Barack Obama met survivors and said the United States must act to control gun violence.

The governor of Istanbul has banned gay, lesbian and transgender individuals from holding pride parades at their usual venue, citing security concerns.

A pro-Brexit campaign has sparked a furious reaction by drawing links between the killing of at least 50 people in a US nightclub and the EU referendum debate.

US authorities are investigating whether anyone helped the gunman who massacred 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, but said they did not believe anyone connected to the shooting posed a current danger to the public.

The hashtag #TwoMenKissing is trending on Twitter as those online begin to weigh in on Sunday's Pulse nightclub shooting.

A hairdressing salon in Cork City has stepped in to offer free haircuts to two people who allege they were denied a haircut in a barber shop due to discrimination.

Ian McKellen has criticised India’s use of a British colonial law to crack down on homosexuality, telling a newspaper in Mumbai that the country needs to “grow up”.

Mexican president Enrique Pena Nieto on Tuesday proposed legalising gay marriage, a move that would enshrine on a national level a Supreme Court ruling last year that it was unconstitutional for states to bar same-sex couples from wedding.

The Italian parliament cleared the way to approving same-sex civil unions and granting some rights to unmarried heterosexual couples in a confidence vote called by prime minister Matteo Renzi to force the bill into law.

Italy has joined the rest of Europe in giving some legal rights to gay couples.