Aug 30: UK:  English Club Wins Gay World Football Championship.  English club Stonewall Lions FC has convincingly won the Gay World Football Championship today at Leyton Orient’s league ground, the Matchroom Stadium, in London.
Aug 30: UK:  More Controversy at Manchester Gay Pride as Business Group Speaks Out Against Commercialisation.  The row over the ‘commercialisation’ of Manchester Gay Pride deepened yesterday when the chair of the Village Business Association (VBA) hit out at the ‘establishment’, saying that Gay Pride in the city had lost its direction.
Aug 28: USA:    Hope.  By Cyndi Lauper.  The Grammy and Emmy award-winning singer, songwriter, and actress endorses Barack Obama.  “I believe that a President Obama would deliver on the promises that have been made to the LGBT community for so long, like inclusive workplace non-discrimination legislation, the end of  “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”, and finally the passage of hate crimes legislation that includes everyone, not just some.”
Aug 27: UK:  THT Launches ‘Connect’ Counselling for Gay Men.  Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) is launching ‘Connect’, a new low cost counselling service for gay or bisexual men based in King’s Cross, London, next month.
Aug 24: UK:    Manchester Gay Pride in Pictures.  Thirty photographs from yesterday's event, the 18th Pride in the city.
Aug 23: UK:  Gay Youth Defy Manchester Pride With ‘Pride Not Profit’ Placards.  A small group of gay youngsters incurred the wrath of Manchester Gay Pride Festival organisers with a number of placards and t-shirts that read Pride Before Profit and Pride Is a Protest.  Minutes before the march moved off from Liverpool Street, Festival director Jackie Crozier went up to David Henry of the Queer Youth Network....
Aug 22: UK:  In Doncaster, Gay Pride OK but Royal British Legion Veterans Day Parade Taboo.  OpEd.  For years, UK Gay News has backed Gay Prides in such cities as Moscow and Warsaw whose mayors have not permitted planned events, citing varying reasons ranging from the lack of facilities of a local council through to the downright homophobic attitude.
Aug 21: UK:  England Tipped to Win Gay World Football Championship.  The British team Stonewall FC is strongly tipped to win the Gay Football World Championship which opens in London this Sunday, August 24. The world title event has the official backing of the Football Association.
Aug 20: UK:  Roads Closed in Central Manchester for Gay Pride.  Details of road closures during Manchester Gay Pride’s ‘Big Weekend’ and the Pride Parade have been unveiled today by the festival organisers.
Aug 20: USA:  Gay Friendly American Airlines Launches In-Flight Mobile Broadband Internet.  American Airlines, the first US airline to target the gay community, chalked-up another ‘first’ today when it launched an in-flight broadband Internet, developed by Aircell’s Gogo, facility for passengers.
Aug 20: Lithuania:  Gay Fury as EU Anti-Discrimination Road Show Truck Banned Again from Lithuanian Cities.  The European Union’s “anti-discrimination road show” truck has been barred from parking on municipal land in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius by the city’s mayor. 
Aug 20: Australia:  Gay Blood Ban Hearing: Questions for Gay Donors Would Take Too Long, Red Cross Claims.  Questions  necessary to establish if a potential gay blood donor is able to give blood would take too long, Dr Brenton Wylie, from the Australian Red Cross, told the anti-discrimination Tribunal today.
Aug 20: USA:  Gay Movers and Shakers Launch Community Website to Elect Barack Obama.  Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender supporters of Barack Obama yesterday launched an online community web portal for information and discussion about the Presidential election campaign, and easy to use tools for getting involved.
Aug 19: Uganda:  Please Mr President Don’t Bash Us – We Are Gay, but Still Ugandans.  The following is an ‘open letter’ from a gay Ugandan to the President of his country, Yoweri Museveni.  It comes after President Museveni publicly praised Anglican bishops for resisting homosexuality, as reported last weekend in New Vision.
Aug 19: UK:  Gay Pride Organisers “Delighted” at Turn Out for Foyle Festival Launch.  The organisers of Foyle Gay Pride in Northern Ireland said today that they were “delighted” with the turn out for the launch of the 2008 festival, which continues until August 24.
Aug 19: Australia:  Gay Blood Ban Hearing: Red Cross Ignores Concerns from Experts and AMA.   The Australian Red Cross has ignored the expert opinion of its chief medical advisor on low risk sexual activity between men, it was claimed today.
Aug 18: Australia:  Gay Blood Ban Hearing: Screen Donors for Risky Sex, Not Partner’s Gender – Aids Expert.  An Australian Aids expert has told the Tasmanian inquiry into the gay blood ban that it is time for donors to be screened for risky sexual activity, not their partner’s gender.
Aug 18: Belgium:  Book for Belgian Primary School Children and Their Teachers Addresses ‘Gay Issues’.  The Flemish GLBTQ youth movement Jong & HiB has developed an original ready-to-go lesson package, meant for use in primary schools.  The folder is printed and distributed by the Province West-Flanders.
Aug 16: UK:  Thousands at Swindon Gay Pride.  Thousands turned out for the first-ever Swindon Gay Pride, held today in the Town Gardens.  See also:  Swindon Gay Pride in Pictures.  14 photographs from the first-ever Swindon Pride. 
Aug 15: Australia:  HIV Infection From Gay Blood Donation Likely “Once Every 5769 Years”.  The Tribunal hearing a case against the Australian Red Cross gay blood ban has been told today that if the current bar on gay blood donation is lifted, a single HIV-positive blood donation from a gay man will slip through clinical screening in Tasmania once every 197 years.
Aug 13: Australia:  Bio-Ethicists Address Gay Blood Donor Hearings.  Two bio-ethicists today addressed the inquiry underway in Tasmania into gay blood donation.
Aug 12: Australia:  Tasmanian ‘Gay Blood’ Inquiry Hears that Safe Sex Works.  An inquiry into the current ban on gay blood donation has heard that safe sex is effective in reducing HIV risk.  Social researcher, Associate Professor Anne Mitchell, today told the Tasmanian Anti-Discrimination Tribunal that risky sexual activity is not as widespread amongst gay and bisexual men as some studies suggest.  Full witness statementof Prof. Anne Mitchell.
Aug 8: UK:  New Magazine for Gay Women Launches in UK.  A new, sophisticated, gay lifestyle magazine for women launches in print on Monday in the UK.  It is be online from today.
Aug 8: UK:  Surprise, Surprise ... Dancing Queens at Manchester Gay Pride!  Just as the movie Mamma Mia soars its way to the top of the UK box office, Manchester Pride have confirmed that the Abba tribute band Björn Again will be performing on Sunday August 24 during “The Big Weekend”.
Aug 7: Australia:  Gay Blood Ban Hearing: Red Cross Accused of “Scare Tactics”.   Gay activists have accused the Red Cross of scare tactics on the first day of a hearing into Australia’s gay blood ban, in Hobart today.
Aug 7: UK:  Gay Split in Anglican Church Is Re-run of Row Over Evolution and Votes for Women – Tatchell.  “The Archbishop of Canterbury is willing to include and embrace homophobes within the Anglican Communion, but we all know that that he would never seek a similar accommodation with racists and anti-Semites,” Peter Tatchell pointed out yesterday.
Aug 5: Australia:  Groundbreaking Gay Blood Ban Case Starts Thursday.  The first full hearing in a groundbreaking gay blood ban case begins in Hobart, Tasmania, on Thursday before the Tasmanian Anti-Discrimination Tribunal.