The contributions of slain San Francisco politician Harvey Milk and the Stonewall riots in New York City in 1969 that helped launch the LGBT rights movement will soon be taught in California classrooms alongside well known activists such as Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks who are credited for making a lasting impact on civil rights in the United States.
As China's gay population is hardest hit by HIV/AIDS, senior Chinese health officials, representatives from civil societies and other delegates met to discuss a new five-year strategy to scale-up HIV prevention programmes and treatment, and promote community-based organisation participation.
Loving Parents of LGBT (同志父母愛心協會), Taiwan's first official group for parents of LGBT people, was launched last Friday, Jul 8 at a press conference held at the at the Legislative Yuan. (New audio clip and video added.)
Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad stunned many on Monday by calling homosexuality "unnatural", and a "disease" which is "spreading fast" in the country.
The US embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan reportedly held a LGBT Pride Celebration ceremony on June 26 which has since drew the ire of conservative Islamic groups with one deeming the event the second most dangerous attack by the US against Pakistan, following missiles fired from unmanned drones.
Thirteen US Democratic senators released a video on Wednesday morning as part of the online "It Gets Better" video campaign, aimed at preventing suicide among LGBT youths.
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is expected to appoint a senior coordinator for sexual orientation and gender identity who will be responsible for advising the USAID administrator on this agenda.
Hundreds of members of Chennai's LGBT community and their allies including staffers from the German and US foreign office marched in the southern Indian city on Sunday morning.
New York, the the birthplace of the gay and lesbian rights movement in the United States, has become the sixth and the most populous US state to legalise same-sex marriage.
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