Over 350 LGBT business executives (including Fridae Chairman Paul Thompson) and allies from more than 26 countries, representing more than 80 organizations and government agencies, gathered in London to share their best practices and ideas for creating workplaces where LGBT people are safe, accepted, and valued.
Ismaili Queers: Advocates for Pluralism, a community group of LGBT-identified Shia Ismaili Muslims, proudly marched as a solo contingent for the first time at the Toronto pride parade on Jul 1.
Human rights activists are demanding an investigation into the case involving athlete Pinki Pramanik, who was arrested on charges of rape and facing claims she is a man, then held in a male prison ward and filmed in a video while undergoing a gender determination test that later went viral.
Long known to be in the "glass closet" – a phrase used for a person who is known to be gay but is not out publicly, CNN anchor Anderson Cooper has confirmed this week that he is gay.
Queensland's Liberal National Party government have not only voted to downgrade civil partnerships to “registered relationships”; same-sex couples and singles will also be denied the right to have a child by surrogacy under plans flagged by the state government.
Alex Au, a Singapore gay activist, social commentator and former Fridae columnist, has been awarded the Humanist of the Year 2012 by the Humanist Society (Singapore) for being a "vocal defender of Singapore’s secularism and an outspoken critic of religious extremism, pseudoscientific institutions and creationism."
A gathering held to mark the end of this year's International Day Against Homophobia (IDAHO) celebrations in the Cameroonian capital of Yaoundé turned violent after a mob forced their way into the venue.
Luka Rocco Magnotta, a 29-year-old Canadian porn actor, was arrested Monday in Berlin after a week-long international manhunt and expected to stand trial in Canada for murdering a 33-year-old Chinese man, who is believed at one point to have been his lover.
Sri Lanka's LGBT community, long struggling for acceptance, celebrate their eighth Pride Festival this week and are featured in a special issue of Sri Lanka's Life Times in which it declared: "Life Times Sri Lanka supports the decriminalisation of private acts between consenting adults, gay or straight!"
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