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The five-month-old twins are called Yash and Roohi One of Bollywood’s most powerful men and India’s most famous gay man has become a father to twins. Karan Johar is a director, producer and talk show host who has made a string of Bollywood hits. As one of the most recognized faces in India he is extremely influential Johar’s twins were born in February via a surrogate mother, but he only shared a photo of them recently on Twitter. The photo is of Johar’s...

Vittorio Petruzzelli hung himself outside his boyfriend’s flat, and died two days later. Vittorio Petruzelli, a 26-year-old gay man from Manchester, tragically took his own life in April after struggling to come to terms with his sexuality. He was found outside his boyfriend’s flat at 12:20am on 3 April, slumped against a drainpipe after hanging himself. At the inquest, boyfriend Warren Osborne said: “I first met Vittorio on 7 December 2013 after we started exchanging messages over Facebook. We got on so...

The video had been seen 150,000 times and shared across dozens of sites by the time it was pulled A gay PR manager was jailed after secretly filming sex with a man in the closet and uploading the video to Xtube. Matthew Christian, a 44-year-old from London, met the victim on dating site barebackparty.com and had sex. Without the knowledge of the closeted bisexual man, the video shows his face clearly on film. None of his friends, family or work colleagues knew...

Gay guy attacked on evening after Pride in London speaks to GSN from his hospital bed about facing a lifetime of impaired vision A gay man is facing a lifetime of blindness in one eye after an attack and robbery outside a gay club in London. Lewis Davis, a 37-year-old marketing assistant for luxury beauty brands, was out with two friends celebrating after Pride in London on Saturday night (8 July). Arriving into Soho at 8.30pm, the three friends realized the main...

John Walker has defeated the government in a case that could change the lives of thousands of same-sex couples. A gay man has won a landmark legal battle to give his husband the same pension rights as a wife would receive. Ex-cavalry officer John Walker, 66, was told by Court of Appeal judges two years ago that his attempt to claim equal pension rights for his husband had failed because his pension had been accrued before civil partnerships were recognised by...

Matthew Leveson's parents finally get the chance to lay their son to rest A gay man’s remains have been found in Australia – ten years after he vanished. Matthew ‘Matt’ Leveson was last seen leaving ARQ, a night club in the Sydney neighborhood of Darlinghurst, on 23 September 2007. He was accompanied by his then 45-year-old boyfriend, Michael Atkins. CCTV footage shows Atkins buying duct tape and a mattock (a pickaxe-like tool) on the same day. He has been tried for Leveson’s murder and...

He was coloring in a park when he says he was attacked by five men A gay disabled man who was allegedly beaten and gang-raped by five men has bravely spoken out about the attack. Steven Greyeyes-Clouse, who has developmental disabilities, is autistic and has cerebral palsy, was sitting in Sacramento Park filling out an adult coloring book on 26 May. He said four men approached him and exposed themselves. Attempting to flee from the group by going to the bathroom, an older...

A gay man in Berlin has reportedly been attacked by a family. The 35-year-old man was walking through Neukölln, a neighbourhood in the south-east of the city, on Friday when he was attacked. The group of men, women and children, who have been identified as a family, verbally insulted the man. The men also punched and kicked him before a female passerby intervened and called the police. The man has since been taken to hospital but the attackers have not yet been identified...

Tributes are being paid to a gay man killed in the Ariana Grande concert bombing. Martyn Hett, 29, has been confirmed dead by loved ones following a terrorist attack at the Manchester Arena. Posts from family, friends and worried strangers had been shared tens of thousands of times in a bid to track him down after the attack. Just an hour before the attack he wrote on Twitter: “When you sneak out for a toilet break on the Macy Gray song and...

He tells us his story from hospital A gay 40-year-old in Namibia set himself alight during a row after finding his boyfriend with a woman. Kasera (name changed) is a gay man but his partner of five years Dandu (name changed), aged 32, does not identify as gay. I found Kasera sitting in hospital with bandages covering his head, arms and part of his face. He told me: ‘I have been in hospital since the 14 April. ‘On that particular day I had been...

Brazil has had marriage rights for LGBTIs since 2013. LGBTIs in Brazil are fortunate to have many of the same legal protections available to non-LGBTI people. Even so, Bruno was nervous about coming out to his family. So much that he feared being kicked out of his home by his own relatives. His family’s reaction to his coming out will surprise you. Watch his story below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLEccUahmzcVD3oun1fIfLRxTo7j05kToh&v=nVQTLBXZDzQ Micro Rainbow’s mission is to create tools, programs, and policy recommendations that enable LGBTI people to...

"I can't breathe!" Uber’s latest commercial features a gay man who discovers he’s sharing a ride with his longtime crush. The spot, which debuted in the Philippines this week, is based on a true story, one recounted in a series of tweets by an Uber user who realized the guy he was sharing an UberPool with was someone he’s been pining over for years. The spot ends with the tagline “Because sometimes, it’s more than just a ride. It’s the moment you’ve...

Kelly Schneider says he doesn't deserve forgiveness for killing Steven Nelson Kelly Schneider sat in an Idaho courtroom on Monday (10 April) with his head bowed and for more than an hour listened as the family of Steven Nelson spoke about the man Schneider killed. When they were through, a judge sentenced Schneider to 28 years to life in prison. It as nearly a year ago that Schneider used an online ad offering sex for payment to lure the gay man to...

Bias crimes in the Big Apple have spiked in 2017. A gay man was viciously attacked on a New York subway Thursday by a stranger because of his sexual orientation. The unnamed victim, 29, was on his way from Bed-Stuy in Brooklyn to Manhattan when he was accosted on the C Train. The assailant, who was not apprehended, punched and spit on the man as he shouted homophobic slurs. The NYPD says there has been an increase in bias crimes reported in...