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Education ministry’s updated policy encourages schools’ understanding of sexual orientation and gender identity.

Some 16 percent of men who have sex with men in the urban centres of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City are estimated to be living with HIV.

BBC explore the push for same-sex marriage in Taiwan in the eyes of one gay couple and their family.

In speech denouncing same-sex unions, Duterte goes back on a 2016 campaign pledge.

In electing Tomoya Hosoda to office, Japan becomes first country in the world to elect transgender man to office.

“Gay moment” in remake of Disney classic opposed by conservative groups in Asia.

More than 75 organisations, businesses, and academics sign statement demanding discrimination based on sexuality or gender identity be criminalised.

Funds are being raised to publish a Legal Guidebook for LGBT Couples & Families in Singapore.

Laxmi Narayan Tripathi convinced India’s Supreme Court to think beyond male and female.

Hong Kong is named a finalist—alongside Washington DC and Guadalajara—for sports and cultural festival.