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Barclays Bank becomes the first bank and joins Google to support Singapore's largest LGBT-supportive public rally to be held June 30.

The lawyer for Dharun Ravi, who was found guilty of spying on and intimidating his gay roommate, and sentenced to 30 days in jail last month, has filed a notice to appeal his hate crime conviction.

Darwin, the capital city of Australia's Northern Territory, has been selected to host the 3rd Asia Pacific Outgames in May 2014.

With less than a month to go before the annual Pink Dot Singapore event slated to be held Jun 30, this year's campaign video dubbed Someday, "invites Singaporeans to envision a future in which Singapore's LGBT community will be able to openly celebrate their diversity, free of discrimination and prejudice."

Openly lesbian Muslim activist and author Irshad Manji spoke about her faith after she had one event at a university in Yogyakarta cancelled, and another in Jakarta stopped midway where she had to leave under heavy police escort as religious extremists violently protested the event. 

The burnt body of a 16-year-old female teenager described in a local media report as often dressing as a man and who has been missing for three weeks has been found in the town of Gua Musang in the state of Kelantan.

For the first time in 20 years, gay and bisexual men accounted for most of the new infections detected in the first half of 2011, according to statistics provided by the Ministry of Health.

Over 1,000 people joined an anti-lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rally last Saturday.

Despite Taiwan's reputation as one of Asia's gay-friendliest territories, about 30 per cent of those surveyed have considered taking their own lives, and of these 18 per cent have actually attempted suicide while over half said they had been targets of verbal harassment, physical violence and sexual abuse.

Fridae's original domain name Fridae.com has been returned to the company following a decision by the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) this month.