Lesbian MSP Ruth Davidson has launched her bid to lead the Scottish Conservative

Party. A former BBC journalist, she is said to be Tory leader David Cameron’s

preferred choice for the job and has been praised for her “charisma”.

Three gay men have been attacked in the US state of Utah in the last

two weeks. LGBT community activist Eric Ethington told the Salt Lake

Tribune: “This is what happens when our local government refuse to take

the problems in our state seriously.”

Ahead of the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the

United States, Republican member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives

Sally Kern has renewed her claim that homosexuality has killed more

people in the United States than terrorism.

A gay group in Taiwan presented a petition to the government on Friday,

with the aim of persuading lawmakers to introduce civil partnership legislation

that would grant same-sex couples the same rights as married straight couples.

And finally: Jessie J has revealed the full extent of the injury that has kept

her off the stage this summer, which resulted in a bone transplant in her

ankle, but she insists she’s now coming back “even harder”.

Thats all from us today. Join us again tomorrow.