"Gay people cannot just blame straight people for not understanding us," says Rev Oyoung Wen Feng, an openly gay Malaysian-born, New York-based author and pastor, who will be speaking in Singapore, Taipei and Malaysia this month.
The only openly lesbian member of the Australian cabinet has announced that her partner is expecting the couple's first child; news of the pregnancy is expected to respark another round of debate about same-sex marriage.
A couple in their late twenties is said to be the first lesbian couple to publicly marry in Malaysia and have a wedding banquet for 400 guests, according to local media.
A candlelight vigil for Aleesha will be held in Kuala Lumpur on Jul 30 to "stand for the justice she was denied and to remember her courage in fighting for what is due to her."
After a 17-year wait, ILGA, which was the first international LGBTI organisation to get ECOSOC consultative status in 1993 but only to lose it the following year, has finally regained its status.
The head of Singapore delegation, Minister of State for Community Development, Youth and Sports, Halimah Yacob reiterated that the government has no plans to repeal the law against male-to-male sex when asked to clarify the status of lesbians in Singapore.
A 26-year-old transgender, who took her case to court after the National Registration Department refused to update her name and gender on her identity card despite having undergone a complete sex reassignment surgery, has lost her case.
Ladlad, a LGBT political party, has called the regulation which bans gay and lesbian prison wardens from frisking and conducting strip searches on jail visitors of the same sex “a clear case of discrimination”.
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