Human rights activists around the world today will observe the seventh edition of the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO).

SANTIAGO, Chile — The gruesome murder of a young gay man at the hands of alleged neo-Nazis, which outraged Chileans, has spurred passage of a hate-crime law in Chile.

Wednesday night, the nation's congress voted 25-3 to approve the hate-crimes bill.

Gay-rights activists and their allies waved the national flag after the bill was approved.

In March, Daniel Zamudio was found in a park where he had been repeatedly beaten and tortured. His attackers carved Nazi swastikas all over his body, among other mutilations.

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras -- The body of a missing journalist, who was gay, was found Monday along a roadside near the village of Aldea Guasculile in Olancho province north of the nation's capital, authorities said.

Erick Martinez, 32, who worked with an LGBT organization called Asociacion Kukulcan, had been reported missing by his family on Saturday.

The cause of death has not yet been determined, but authorities said the body showed signs of a brutal beating as well as strangulation.

Two Muslim gay men, deeply in love, tied the knot in France with the blessing of an imam.

Ludovic Mohamed Zahed, a French man of Algerian origin, and his South African partner Qiyam al-Din, were reportedly married in accordance to the Sharia (Islamic law) in the presence of a Mauritian imam named Jamal who blessed their union on Feb. 12, 2012, according to a report in Albawbaba on April 2.

The two were previously able to marry in South Africa under the country’s same sex marriage laws, which also permits gay couples to adopt but France does not recognize same sex unions.