Britain's first out gay ambassador took up his post in Luxembourg this month.

James Clark, 41, and his partner, Anthony Stewart, are living together in the official ambassador’s residence.

Singapore’s Registrar of Societies refused to register the gay organization People Like Us on March 31 and ordered its members to cease activity.

The agency said registering the group would violate the Societies Act’s ban on organizations that are “likely to be used for unlawful purposes or for purposes prejudicial to public peace, welfare or good order in Singapore” and its ban on organizations that are “contrary to the national interest.”

People Like Us said it would launch an appeal to the Minister of Home Affairs. However, on April 7, the ministry suggested that would be pointless.

“As the mainstream moral values of Singaporeans are conservative, it is hence contrary to public interest to grant legitimacy to the promotion of homosexual activities and viewpoints,” the ministry said in response to a press inquiry.

For the time being, People Like Us has halted activity, but a spokesman said the organization’s more than 1,000 members will continue to advocate for gay rights individually.

Gay sex is illegal in Singapore under “gross indecency” laws that allow for up to two years’ imprisonment.

Protesters from the British gay group OutRage! harassed Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor on Palm Sunday as he entered London’s Westminster Cathedral for mass.

“Your church protects pedophile priests, while persecuting gay people in loving relationships,” chided OutRage!’s Peter Tatchell. “You support legal discrimination against gay people and oppose gay equality and human rights.”

Murphy-O’Connor remained impassive as he and his aides pushed through the group.

The protesters said they were punched and shoved by clergy and congregants who called them “sick” and “unnatural” and ripped placards from their hands.

The signs read: “Vatican Blocks Gay Human Rights at U.N.,” “Catholics! STOP crucifying queers” and “Gays are not ‘intrinsically disordered’ – Shame on Catholic Catechism!”

“We were protesting against the Vatican’s blocking of a U.N. vote last week which would have condemned homophobic discrimination and the imprisonment, torture and murder of gay people,” Tatchell said. “In over 70 countries homosexuality is still totally illegal, and in seven Islamic states homosexuals face the death penalty. The Vatican opposed the U.N. resolution condemning the persecution of lesbians and gay men. It mobilized the Islamic countries to block the vote in the U.N. Human Rights Commission.”

In a first, a Canadian gay military man has publicly married his partner, the Kingston (Ontario) Whig-Standard reported April 6.

Navy Officer Cadet Jason Stewart, 19, married Joey Schwehr, 20, in Toronto April 3.

The couple will live together in married quarters at Canadian Forces Base Kingston. Stewart is a first-year cadet at Royal Military College.

The two men met just four months ago.

“Our first date was at the Second Cup downtown and we sat there for hours just talking and talking,” Schwehr told the Whig-Standard. “It was instant. He told me that he loved me and I felt the same way toward him. Everything seemed to connect and we just hit it off. We both felt really strongly for each other.

“It’s just one of those things that you know,” Schwehr said. “You don’t want to let that person go to find out five years from now that they were the person you were supposed to be with for the rest of your life.”

Full same-sex marriage is allowed in Ontario, British Columbia and Quebec where it was legalized by each province’s highest court over the past 11 months. Foreigners can get married in the three provinces as well.

The federal government supports the court rulings and is preparing to open up marriage nationwide.

An unscientific poll conducted by the website of the Toronto gay magazine fab found that only about one-third of gay people care about having access to full marriage.

Thirty-six percent of respondents said gays should “settle for marriage and nothing less,” while 47 percent said gays should “go for something like civil unions and develop our own customs as long as we have the same rights as straight married couples.”

Eleven percent refuse “to buy into the heterosexist, oppressive institution of marriage” and 7 percent wish gays would “help lead a movement to abolish the institution of marriage.”

Over the past 11 months, top courts in the provinces of British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec extended full marriage to same-sex couples. In response, the federal government is planning to open up marriage nationwide.

A gay man is using Britain’s new sexual-orientation anti-discrimination law to fight the Roman Catholic Church after a Catholic charity refused to hire him because he’s gay.

The 27-year-old social worker, who was not named in news reports on the matter, was offered a job by Apostleship of the Sea, which ministers to the crews of ships in British ports; but the offer was withdrawn after the charity learned the man has a same-sex partner.

There is an exemption in the anti-discrimination law for faith groups but it is under assault in a separate case now before the High Court, according to The Independent newspaper.