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Newsletter Issue 605
Oct 4, 2012
Agenda
Hong Kong

Pink Season 2012

2012-09-29 - 2012-12-04
Penang

Freedom Film Festival 2012 Penang

2012-10-06
Shinjuku

BAD BOYS vol.21

2012-10-06 - 2012-10-07
Johor

Freedom Film Festival 2012 Johor

2012-10-13
Sarawak
Freedom Film Festival 2012 Sarawak
2012-10-20
Sabah
Freedom Film Festival 2012 Sabah
2012-10-27
Singapore

Freedom Film Festival 2012 Singapore

2012-10-28
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News / Features
News

Singapore: Bus driver to face disciplinary action for gay slur

In a first of its kind case to be reported, an employee of a bus company in Singapore will face disciplinary action after using a gay slur on a female passenger in public.

News

Jakarta's Q! Film Festival to only release daily schedules due to security concerns

The 11th annual Q! Film Festival, which started last Friday and will run until Oct 6, will only release the screening schedules on a daily basis due to threats from extremists and religious groups.

News

Lesbian heiress "moved" by dad's offer of US$68 million reward for son-in-law

Gigi Chao says in an interview that she's a "really lucky girl to have such a loving daddy" and that his views is not based on his own non-acceptance but society's non-acceptance of same-sex couples.

News

California bans gay-conversion therapy for minors

California will be the first state in the US to ban "reparative therapy" or "conversion therapy" – a practice that was been roundly discredited by mainstream mental health organisations – for gay teens.

Feature

Pink Season: Hong Kong's LGBT festival, Sep 29 - Dec 4

Fridae's Hong Kong Correspondent Nigel Collett speaks to Pink Season Coordinator Tay Her Lim and gives readers a preview of the events happening in conjunction with the 2nd annual Pink Season in Hong Kong.

Lifestyle

Pet Shop Boys talk pop music, unveil video for new single ''Leaving'

Pet Shop Boys unveiled the video for their new single "Leaving" that is one of the finest tunes on their new album, "Elysium."

HTC One X+

Is the newer, faster HTC smartphone a better choice compared with the Samsung Galaxy S III and Apple iPhone 5? Here's what we think.

Celeste and Jesse Forever

Celeste and Jesse attempts to change Hollywood's romcoms forever.

Taken 2

Taken 2 extends Luc Besson's unlikely vision of a totally serious action film.

The Words

More potboiler than literary morality tale, The Words surprises as much as it disappoints.

Rihanna's new single "Diamonds"

Whether you love Rihanna's new single or you're still warming up to it, I think we can all agree that the pop star needs to be applauded for surprising us with a song that unveils a tone we have not heard from her before.

Review: Super Slim PlayStation 3

Sony's latest PS3 is the smallest in the series, but retains the powerful gaming and multimedia capabilities of its predecessors.

Watch Ellie Goulding 'I Know You Care' video premiere [Review]

Hot on the heels of the release of her new single "Anything Could Happen," the British songstress has released a brand-new video for "I Know You Care," one of the most touching tracks on her terrific new album "Halcyon" that she co-wrote with Justin Parker.

GF*BF

A piece of Taiwanese nostalgia that shirks examinations of love, gender and sexuality in favour of plain sentimentality.

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