Fridae

From 10 April to 4 May, Singaporean theatre company Wild Rice is restaging their all-male version of The Importance of Being Earnest, a sparkling comedy by 19th century gay icon Oscar Wilde. We talk to director Glen Goei and 'leading lady' Ivan Heng – both of them local gay icons themselves.

From 29 to 31 March, the biggest ever international conference for Asian LGBT activists was held in Bangkok. Ng Yi-Sheng reports.

Singapore's anti-gay sex law, section 377A, was challenged today in the nation's High Court by human rights lawyer M. Ravi.

Singaporean artist Felicia Low is creating an educational comic about teen love and sexuality, based on interviews with three young women: one straight, one bisexual and one lesbian.

This week, the Love and Pride Film Festival presents four LGBT-themed films for Singaporean audiences. We focus on a festival highlight: Vu Ngoc Dang's Lost in Paradise, which may be Vietnam's very first gay movie.

A rising star in Cambodia's contemporary art scene, Vuth Lyno creates photographic portraits of LGBTs in his country. Fridae talks to him about his work before his presentation in Singapore as part of TheatreWorks's Superintense on Sat, 19 Jan. His exhibition Thoamada II will be open from 26 Jan to 2 Mar in Phnom Penh.

There aren't many openly LGBT parents in Singapore, but there are some who're willing to share their stories. Meet K, a bisexual mum, and P, a gay dad.

Editors Audrey Yue and Jun Zubillaga-Pow have curated a solid collection of essays looking at LGBT Singapore from multiple perspectives, examining in particular the coexistence in the nation of institutionalised repression and tolerance of the gay community.

Best known for Rainbow Massacre, legendary Malaysian drag queen Shelah is playing her final show in Kuala Lumpur on Friday, Nov 23. Ng Yi-Sheng speaks to actor Edwin Sumun about showbiz, activism and how the reemergence of Shelah was in response to an ignorant local politician who said that pondans and mak nyahs should not be allowed to exist.

Fridae speaks to Vietnamese-American novelist Monique Truong, bestselling author of The Book of Salt which is set in 1920s Paris and features a young gay character – a Vietnamese cook who lives in the household of famous lesbian writers Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas.