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Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, one of the most watched shows on Amercian TV will soon hit Australia, who is set to produce its own local version featuring five local gay maestros.

After years of pervasive state censorship, Singapore looks to relax its ban on gay-themed movies and publications. Just a decade ago, the Censorship Review Committee called for the continued ban of material that "encourage(s) homosexuality."

Two men have been sentenced to life imprisonment for Australia's worst serial killings, known as the Snowtown 'bodies-in-the-barrels' murders, believed to be motivated by the killers' hatred of homosexuals and paedophiles.

A full-fledged public high school for GLBT students re-opens this Monday after a US$3.2 million expansion amidst criticism that such a school promotes segregation, whilst its defenders say it protects students from harassment.

In his farewell Independence Day address last Saturday, Malaysia's Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has once again lashed out at gays and 'western' culture.

A sexually explicit interview where Arnie confessed to engaging in group sex with other bodybuilders has surfaced at a time when the bodybuilder-turned-actor-turned-politician is taking pains to win conservative votes in the upcoming California election.

The alleged murderer in the prison cell slaying of defrocked priest John Geoghan, who reportedly molested 150 boys in 30 years, hates gay men and planned the killing weeks in advance, said the District Attorney.

Reichen and Chip, the winners of The Amazing Race 4 finale which was telecast last Thursday in the US have said that they are still together, contrary to Internet rumours - that the pair broke up after the 45,000-mile race.

More than half of Americans believe that marriage should be between a man and a woman only and would support a law that would forbid same-sex marriage; 26 men have been arrested and will be tried for having sex in an adult bookstore in Virginia despite the US Supreme Court ruling that struck down Texas' sodomy law.

A group of activists on Sunday disrupted a mass at a Roman Catholic church - protesting its stance against same-sex marriages.