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Larry Kramer, a prominent 76-year-old American playwright, author, public health advocate, and LGBT rights activist, said in an interview that he sees himself as a gay person before anything else and wonders why some (gay) people today do not identify themselves as gay.

Pakistan's Supreme Court also recommended that transgenders be allocated a certain number of government jobs and specifically as tax collectors to utilise their "special skills".

Singapore's most anticipated public rally to support the freedom of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people (LGBT) to love is back for the third year on June 18.

The 33-minute documentary, which is the first project of its kind about the Yogyakarta Principles and LGBT rights in Asia, will be screened in Hong Kong, Beijing and Cambodia in May while many other countries including the Philippines, Indonesia and Thailand are in the process of planning events around the video. Watch the trailer now.

A gay professional volleyball player, who was taunted with incessant homophobic chants during a April 2 semifinal match which caused him to come out publicly, was later honoured by fans who held demonstrations against homophobia at a later game.

"Privacy aside, is a question on someone's sexuality really so negative and undeserving of a response?" Asked The China Post in an editorial following a public debate with gay and women's groups expressing their outrage after a would-be presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen was asked to clarify her sexual orientation.

Gay men in UK may soon be allowed to donate blood but only as long as they have not had sex with another man in the past decade.

BeLonG To Youth Services in Ireland has launched a new campaign, Stand Up! LGBT Awareness Week! to provide an annual focus for promoting friendship amongst young people as a way to combat homophobic bullying.

Police say they were investigating the bar for staging "sex shows"; bar's DJ says he believes the raid to be the result of fierce competition among local bars.

Some 188 nightspots, fitness centres, saunas and other gay venues nationwide are expected to participate in a pilot scheme in which condoms and lubricant packs will be dispensed free of charge.