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Last week, over 15 LGBT groups in Hong Kong announced their withdrawal from the Sexual Minorities Forum, a government consultative body to address LGBT-related issues, and accused the government of using the body as a cover for its failure to introduce measures to prevent discrimination.

Hong Kongers Guy Ho and Henry Lam (of Gayradio.hk fame) initially just wanted to share their marriage journey with family and friends but soon saw the potential to send a message to a much wider audience and so their documentary Different Path, Same Way was born, they tell Fridae’s Hong Kong Correspondent Nigel Collett.

Fridae's Hong Kong Correspondent, Nigel Collett, reviews photographer Norm Yip's latest venture, his magazine beaux volume 1.

Fridae's Hong Kong Correspondent Nigel Collett interviews Arthur Tam, columnist for Time Out Hong Kong and presenter of the new RTHK Radio 3 English-language LGBT show, From Top to Bottom.

Spanning much of the first decade of this new century, Hong Kong academic Lucetta Kam's research opens up a window into how, and how rapidly, Chinese queer life is changing, and describes the world of lalas (lesbians) in Shanghai, and to some degree, much of urbanised China in her new book.

Following the closing of the second Pink Season and the 23rd Hong Kong Lesbian & Gay Film Festival which started in 1989 when gay sex was still a criminal offence, Fridae's Hong Kong Correspondent Nigel Collett looks back at the territory's LGBT history and how far LGBTs have become mainstream including the election of its first gay legislator this year.

Fridae's Hong Kong Correspondent Nigel Collett speaks to Pink Season Coordinator Tay Her Lim and gives readers a preview of the events happening in conjunction with the 2nd annual Pink Season in Hong Kong.

Fridae's Nigel Collett caught up with Marshall Moore, the author and publisher Of The Infernal Republic, his new collection of short fiction. He had moved to Hong Kong in 2008 – after a three-year stint in South Korea – where he is once again teaching English.

A Hong Kong court has dismissed the case in which a complainant had sought to challenge the action taken by the police to prevent a dance programme performed on the street as part of the celebration of IDAHO in May 2011.

Dense living conditions in Hong Kong do not provide much privacy for lesbians living with their families. As a result, lesbians often locate alternative spaces to develop support networks with other women. Denise Tang's new book maps the effect Hong Kong’s spaces have on the lesbians who inhabit them, and the psychological and institutional spaces provided by education, religion and queer organisations.