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While the world's attention has been focused on Burma's bloody crackdown of human rights protests, judges in Hong Kong were considering whether to award the top prize of a new literary competition to a Burmese gay novel. Dinah Gardner was in Rangoon to bring you this report.

Dinah Gardner meets versatile Chinese actress Tian Yuan who played the sexy singer, Yip, in hit lesbian movie Butterfly fame.

Rice and potato queens have often been the subject of discussion on Fridae and elsewhere. What about rice and potato queen dykes? Lesbian columnist Dinah Garder explains why "Asian girls just do it for her" and attempts to uncover the differences between gay men and lesbians who profess a preference for a certain race.

According to a new US survey, lesbians have been found to be twice more likely to be overweight or obese than straight women. At the same time, the study also revealed that lesbians were more at ease with their bodies than straight women. Dinah Gardner has lesbians weigh in on the issue.

Would it be a bittersweet treat or a tragic mistake? Fridae's lesbian columnist Dinah Gardner wonders if sex with an ex could ever be baggage-free.

He's cute, has a good sense of humour; and is still single. Meet 27-year-old Didier Zheng who's the host of China's first gay Internet TV show. He tells Fridae in an exclusive interview about the government's restrictions on the show and the observations he has gleaned while hosting.

Fridae's Beijing correspondent Dinah Gardner travels to Lhasa, Tibet and speaks to young gay and lesbian Tibetans about their lives in the city's small yet flourishing queer scene.

The US hit lesbian drama series, The L Word, is the most watched TV series by lesbians around the world from New York to Beijing to Kuala Lumpur. Dinah Gardner investigates the cause of this global lesbian phenomenon.

During a busy lunch hour on Valentine's Day in Beijing's central business district, six lesbians and gays handed out 200 red carnations wrapped in leaflets calling for the acceptance of gay love and marriage. A Beijing exclusive by Dinah Gardner.

Imagine a village full of lesbians, and according to Shitou, the lesbian filmmaker of a new documentary, Women 50 Minutes such a village does exist. Fridae's Dinah Gardner speaks to the filmmaker who is perhaps better known as the star of the country's first lesbian movie, Fish and Elephant (2000).