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A 26-year-old transgender, who took her case to court after the National Registration Department refused to update her name and gender on her identity card despite having undergone a complete sex reassignment surgery, has lost her case.

The "Rip & Roll" safe sex campaign posters which feature a real-life gay male couple in an embrace will be reinstated across Brisbane bus shelters after it became clear the complaints were part of a concerted campaign by the Australian Christian Lobby.

Eight months the suicide of American student Tyler Clementi that got the country talking about the issue of bullying on school campuses and anti-bullying efforts, his former roommate, who faces a 15-count indictment of hate crime charges, stood in court for the first time on Monday.

Taiga Ishikawa has become the first openly gay politician in Japan to win an election. In an interview with the Japan Times published last month, he says he hopes to enact a partnership ordinance that would allow unmarried couples regardless of gender to have equal rights as married couples.

A gay professional volleyball player, who was taunted with incessant homophobic chants during a April 2 semifinal match which caused him to come out publicly, was later honoured by fans who held demonstrations against homophobia at a later game.

Openly gay actor Sir Ian McKellen is on his third month of his nationwide "role model" tour of secondary schools on behalf of Stonewall, the gay equality charity that he co-founded in 1989. Over last two years, he had toured 54 secondary schools and has inspired not only students but teachers to come out to their supervisors.

ABS-CBN highlights Filipino representation at the recent Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation Media Awards which honours media outlets and TV shows for positive representations of LGBTs and the issues affecting their lives.

Gay couples and those seeking political asylum make up the 180 Malaysians who have sought asylum in the United Kingdom since 2005.

Germans in the 19th century "invented" the modern gay rights movement and modern conceptions of homosexuality can be traced to an anti-sodomy law, a Maryland historian argues.

A gay couple in New Jersey, US who were chased and beaten by Burger King employees following a 2007 altercation have been awarded US$3.15 million in a civil suit.