by Fife College journalism students
Kansas state House of Representatives have passed a bill allowing people to refuse service to homosexuals on religious grounds.
The bill was passed 72-49 as a move to safeguard against same-sex marriage's deeply opposed across many southern states.
A leading gay rights campaigner and former Italian MP has been arrested following a peaceful protest at the Sochi Winter Olympics.
Vladimir Luxuria, who was dressed in rainbow colours and carrying a banner reading “Gay is OK”, was taken away by four unidentified men as she tried to enter the ice hockey arena at the Games.
A new bill which toughens laws for gay people and those who don’t report them has been passed in Uganda.
The new regulations will increase the penalty for any gay person in the country, as well as making it illegal for anyone not to report a homosexual to the authorities, making life almost impossible if you are out of the closet.
