A kissing protest has taken place outside the Dáil to highlight the lack of hate-crime legislation to prevent homophobic attacks.

Records detailing Cork's long history of LGBT activism are to be digitised and preserved for the future in the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI).

A bus driver in England has been suspended amid claims he refused to drive a vehicle with a rainbow-coloured service number on the front.

It was glitter, knee socks and glam all the way as the Pride parade took over Cork city, bringing this year’s Pride Festival to a close with a splash of colour.

It starts in O'Connell Street at 1pm, before making its way on to Eden Quay and Liberty Hall.

Latest: The Bishop of Ossory has apologised following comments made a priest in Co Kilkenny who compared gay people to zombies.

Direct provision does not work, and it has to be abolished. And for LGBT asylum seekers within the system, the experience can be even worse, writes Evgeny Shtorn.

The Vatican has issued a document rejecting the idea that people can choose or change their genders.

The friends of a transgender woman who died in Direct Provision have been left devastated after she was buried without a ceremony or anyone close to her present.

Cork's Gay Project have today launched two policy papers on how to make Cork the best place to be LGBT.

Rugby international Lindsay Peat, one of the country’s most versatile female athletes who has represented Ireland in three different sports, has revealed that she was once the subject of homophobic sledging in an All-Ireland ladies football final.

The trauma of marriage break-up for Irish gay fathers who come out after having children during a heterosexual marriage has been revealed in a study.

An Instagram account that published comic strips depicting the struggles of gay Muslims in Indonesia has disappeared following a frenzy of outrage online in the world's biggest Muslim nation.

Several people have been detained in Chechnya, Russia, on suspicion of being gay in a throwback to an earlier crackdown, activists said.

New proposals to overhaul sex education in schools are being described as a matter of "life or death".

Children's Minister Katherine Zappone has launched a national competition to find a 'symbol' to allow businesses, and youth based clubs, a way to show solidarity with all young people.

An American high school teacher who refused to use a transgender student’s new pronouns has been fired.

An LGBT group is set to be established in Leinster House to organise conferences, campaigning, and social events. In addition it will provide a supportive space for staff and politicians. Ceann comhairle Sean Ó Fearghaíl has told Cork senator Jerry Buttimer he supports his proposal for the special forum and models in other parliaments are being examined.

When it comes to knowing and showing how to conduct your affairs properly, the IRFU appear to be leaving every other major sporting NGB or alphabet sporting organisation in the shade.

New research from 'BeLong To' shows that nearly half of those surveyed feel reluctant to open up about how they feel.

The UK’s Supreme Court has made a compelling case for deciding in favour of a Belfast bakery in the ‘gay cake’ row, overturning a lower-court ruling that the decision not to bake a cake — iced with the slogan ‘Support Gay Marriage’ — was discriminatory.

Older LGBT people often ‘return to the closet’, afraid that their sexuality may be an issue for their carers, and so they become invisible within the health system. A new campaign offers reassurance, writes Paula Fagan.

The contestants’ identity will be revealed on Friday night.

Several major international companies operating in the North have called for same-sex marriage to be introduced.

Latest: The Taoiseach has said Pope Francis must follow up his words with actions.