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Thai media features same-sex couples as parliament considers civil unions
As public hearings are underway before the bill will be proposed to parliament for debate, the English-language local media appears to be covering the issue positively with interviews with same-sex couples who speak about the discrimination they currently face and their hopes for the future. |
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Uruguay becomes 12th country to legalise same-sex marriage
Lawmakers in Uruguay on Wednesday voted 71-21 to legalise same-sex marriage, making the South American country the 12th in the world and third in the Americas to do so. |
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Not prepared to wait
Following the Singapore High Court's decision to dismiss a challenge to the country's anti-gay sex laws, Tania De Rozario recaps a long list of injustice and discrimination suffered by gay people, and argues why equality is needed right away. |
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Singapore High Court upholds anti-gay sex law
In dismissing one of two legal challenges in which plaintiffs sought to have the country's anti-gay sex law declared unconstitutional, the judge concludes that while anal and oral sex in private between a consenting man and woman is considered "acceptable," the same conduct was "repugnant and offensive" when carried out between two men, "therefore no reason to strike down... s 377A... as arbitrary or discriminatory." |
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Gay son of "reparative therapy" pioneer talks about coming out to his father
Richard Socarides, an attorney and Senior Advisor during the Clinton Administration, shares his experiences coming out as gay while he was in this twenties to his father who was already at the time a preeminent scholar on the “gay cure” and widely regarded as the father of conversion therapy. |
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Vietnam's first-ever gay sitcom gets more than one million YouTube views
Produced by a 21-year-old student, My best gay friends has become a nationwide phenomenon with the first episode of the 15-part series breaking the one million view mark on Youtube over the weekend |
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The 5th ILGA Asia Conference 2013: The Phoenix Rising
From 29 to 31 March, the biggest ever international conference for Asian LGBT activists was held in Bangkok. Ng Yi-Sheng reports.
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