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The appeal of Boy’s Love comic stories is seen as unlike romance between a boy and girl that comes with pressures such as pregnancy which can negate the purity of romantic desire.

  Activists say the EU’s selection of an anti-gay academic speaker in Singapore is contrary to both the EU and the UN’s stance on LGBT rights.

  The hook-up app is considered as public service in conveying information to the LGBT community about HIV and shows that people in China are beginning to be more tolerant towards gay people.

  Seoul Metropolitan Government fails to enact human rights charter due to pressures from anti-gay groups over inclusion of sexual identity or orientation clause.

  Hundreds of Indians took part in a gay parade in the capital New Delhi for the first time since the Supreme Court reinstated a colonial-era ban on same-sex relations.

Outrage over the murder of a Filipino transsexual, allegedly at the hands of a US Marine, has obscured rather than highlighted the troubling vulnerability of sexual minorities to discriminatory violence in the Philippines, according to a recent report by The China Post.

Community Business, an NGO dedicated to “advancing corporate social responsibility in Asia”, according to its website, has just announced the launch of its trailblazing LGBT Workplace Inclusion Index in Hong Kong.

If the story of one couple sharing a life together in rural China can serve as an early indicator, then the situation for gay Chinese men may be showing signs of  change—for the better.

Speaking at a forum on ‘gender identity disorder’, a social science lecturer at a Malaysian University has said that rape and “environmental toxins” are among several factors that encourage people to become transgender.

  The Calcutta International LGBT Film and Video Festival has just kicked off in Kolkata, promising to bring together artists and activists in a a bid to shed light on the state of sexual rights in the region and beyond.