The second sexuality rights festival will be held at the Annexe Gallery with the launch of Body 2 Body, the first anthology of Malaysian queer short stories and essays on Aug 15.
While same-sex marriage supporters stage rallies across Australia on Saturday, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's Labor Party voted on the same day to retain the country's ban on same-sex marriage.
A masked gunman walked into community center on Saturday night and "fired all over the place", killing a 16-year-old teen and 26-year-old youth counsellor.
Just days ahead of Saturday's same-sex marriage right rallies to be held in its seven capital cities, PM Kevin Rudd says that his government will not change its stance in only recognising marriage as being between a man and a woman.
After three men were reportedly attacked last Friday in what has been classified a hate crime, an athlete has been treated for his injuries after a man fired two explosives at a track and field event on Tuesday.
Australians in the capital cities of Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth, Hobart and Canberra will take to the streets on Aug 1 to demand equal marriage rights for all regardless of sex and sexual orientation.
Singapore's fifth gay pride season is back with a bumper crop of events, and the announcement of the winners of the inaugural Rascals Prize and 2nd Dignity Award.
India's Supreme Court has refused to temporarily suspend a lower court's verdict legalising gay sex among consenting adults while it hears two petitions seeking to have the high court's decision overturned.
Tom Duane's hair-raising speech at 3am last Friday morning in the New York Senate chamber - in support of a bill that will cap housing costs for people living with HIV/AIDS - has made waves in the blogosphere.
Standard Chartered Bank has launched "Anti-HIVirus software", a campaign to address protection methods against HIV/AIDS and dispel myths about the disease in a series of six short animated videos.
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