KAMPALA, Uganda -- Police in Uganda should urgently and impartially investigate the killing of the prominent human rights activist David Kato, Human Rights Watch said today.

Kato had dedicated his life to fighting for the rights of lesbians, gays, bisexual and transgender persons (LGBT) in Uganda, facing threats and risks to his personal safety.

MANGAWHAI HEADS, New Zealand -- The community is stepping up to help the Northland lesbian couple whose business was destroyed in what is believed to be an anti-gay arson attack.

The Mangawhai Heads packing shed of Lindsay Curnow and Juliet Leigh's company Blooming Bulbs was burnt down on Jan. 15, a week after anti-lesbian hate graffiti was sprawled on their house, car and the shed.

Police believe the fire was arson and are seeking whoever is responsible.

Cultural and political homophobia in Latin America remains starkly lethal, as evidence from two divergent societies there demonstrates.

In Honduras, there have been three new murders of LGBT people in recent weeks, bringing the death toll in the officially approved assassination campaign of queers to 31.

Meanwhile, in Brazil a new study by a gay group tracking homophobic and transphobic violence shows that an LGBT person is murdered every day and a half, a significant increase from three years ago, when it was one murder every three days.

Two young men who filmed themselves having sex have been sentenced to death by stoning in Iran.

The film was discovered on the mobiles of Ayub and Mosleh, 20 and 21 years old, by agents of the Iranian regime in the Kurdistan city of Piranshahr in northwest Iran.

Pictures of President Ahmadinejad and a headshot of Supreme Leader Khamenei pasted over a donkey were allegedly incorporated into the film.

Reports say that the young men’s stoning was immediately ordered for this Friday "to instill fear in the people of Iran."