The film adaptation of Rainbow Boys, a popular American award winning series of coming-of-age romance novels, breaks the traditional stereotypes of gay men in Thai cinema.
Hong Kong has reported the largest increase in the number of HIV cases in the third quarter of this year, with a large increase in the number of cases among men who have sex with men. In Manila, 29-year-old man sued his employer for firing him after he participated in a "symbolic wedding" with his partner of five years.
Fresh from its success with Nation.V in Phuket, Thailand, Fridae has announced Ministry of Sound, Taipei to be the host of SnowBall'5 on December 23. The party will feature one of LA's hottest DJs, Kimberly S, who is in constant demand to spin at the hottest dance events in the US and some of Hollywood's elite movie premiere parties.
A new anonymous clinic targeting Thai MSM which will provide free HIV and STI testing has opened in Bangkok. In Singapore, a gay web site has been banned while another fined. George Takei, Star Trek's Mr Sulu has come out last week surprising fans around the world.
A survey of some 2,000 people will be used to assess the general Hong Kong public's likely reception to proposed anti-discrimination laws. In Tennessee, a judge has shut down the ex-gay Love In Action Ministry, a "treatment" centre which claims to help gays "turn" straight.
The inaugural Girl Pride Asia festival will be held in Phuket, concurrently with Nation.V from Nov 4-6. Despite being in the works for over a year, plans for Singapore to be home to Britain's Warwick University's branch campus have fallen through. In HK, activists criticised its leader who disgreed with a recent ruling which decriminalised gay acts between men under 21.
Teens are coming out earlier than ever before, according to a new US study that's also featured in the Oct 10, 2005 issue of Time magazine. In Germany, health authorities are alarmed over a surge in the number of new cases of HIV particularly within the gay community, meanwhile, gay Arabs have a new magazine to call their own.
Despite having hosted the Nation party which is one of Asia's largest gay and lesbian events for four consecutive years until it was banned this year, Singapore will unlikely be hosting any major gay events anytime soon as the Prime Minister said that such events are "offensive to a large number of Singaporeans."
In Hong Kong, the government has appealed a recent High Court ruling that struck down a law prohibiting consensual gay sex for men under 21, meanwhile Catholic politicians who support same-sex unions and/or abortion rights, and other laws that violate church doctrine may be barred from Sacrament as the world's bishops meet in Vatican City.
Taipei gay activists have protested new draft blood donation legislation ahead of the city's third pride parade to be held this Saturday. In Nepal, gay rights organisation Blue Diamond Society highlights Police harassment and brutality against LGBTs while in landmark case in Russia, a court has ruled that a man cannot be denied a job because he is gay.
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