A new study in the Canadian Journal of Economics provides the first evidence on sexual orientation and economic outcomes in Canada. The study found that gay men have 12 percent lower personal incomes and lesbians have 15 percent higher personal incomes than heterosexual men and women.

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have published a study showing that the degree of internalized homonegativity (negative attitude towards homosexuality) among homosexual men is what predicts poor mental and sexual health – not the act of being homosexual.

Homosexual behaviour is largely shaped by genetics and random environmental factors, according to findings from the world's largest study of twins.

A British theatre production investigating homosexuality, cross-dressing and gender has been invited to Israel to encourage artistic dialogue.

Members of the Swedish Temperance movement, IOGT-NTO are leaving the organisation in droves after the movement decided to exclude a controversial pastor who has openly slammed homosexuality from the pulpit.

While the biological basis for homosexuality remains a mystery, a team of neurobiologists reports they may have closed in on an answer -- by a nose.

Homosexuality is not a crime, Singaporeans argued their government ahead of a parliamentary debate on the most extensive revision of the city-state's penal code in 23 years.

Differences in sexual behaviours do not fully explain why the US HIV epidemic affects gay men so much more than straight men and women, claims research published ahead of print in the journal Sexually Transmitted Infections.

A compelling new study from the September issue of the Journal of Modern History reviews historical evidence, including documents and gravesites, suggesting that homosexual civil unions may have existed six centuries ago in France.

New findings that one in 20 North Carolina men who have sex with men (MSM) reported using crystal methamphetamine during the previous month suggests increased risk for spreading HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases (STD), according to researchers from Wake Forest University School of Medicine and colleagues.

The American Psychological Association is starting the first review of its 10-year-old policy on counseling gays and lesbians, a step that gay-rights activists hope will end with a denunciation of attempts by therapists to change sexual orientation.

Russian police detained gay-rights activists, including two European lawmakers, as they gathered in central Moscow yesterday, while members of a hostile crowd shouted, "Death to homosexuals!" and punched and kicked the demonstrators and pelted them with eggs.