Fridae

Fridae will launch a new Chinese language personals site, which will be Asia's first personals online service, customised for and dedicated to the needs of the native Chinese gay and lesbian communities, particularly in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Gay men who engage in receptive anal sex recommended to undergo regular anal Pap smears to screen for cell changes that could lead to anal cancer.

Gay Singaporean composer Mark Chan will conduct music accompaniment for Little Toys, a classic Chinese silent film with a vibrant and modern score at its world premiere at the 2003 Hong Kong Arts Festival on Feb. 28.

A 68-year-old American millionaire was arrested in Bangkok on child sex charges is now waiting for an extradition hearing at the request of the Mexican authorities.

More than 140 floats will parade up Oxford Street on Saturday March 1 as part of the 25th anniversary of the world's most glamorous civil rights protest - the 2003 Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade.

Two public elementary school teachers in Matsue, Japan have been arrested after one of them drugged a young woman and performed indecent acts on her to titillate the other.

The number of HIV diagnoses increased by 14 percent among men who have sex with men (MSM), from 6,614 to 7,521 between 1999 and 2001; CDC Calls for Prevention and Testing.

Russian newspapers have proof that the Tatu girls' controversial image is all a sham after the girls who claimed they were lesbian lovers were photographed with their boyfriends in a Moscow nightclub.

According to the country's health authorities, more people contracted HIV through male-to-male sexual contact compared to heterosexual contact last year.

The (US) National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs has expressed concern about the results of a new US study which shows that urban gay men are just as likely as heterosexual women to be victims of domestic violence.