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  A Gallup Poll survey of global attitudes toward the LGBT community shows that in many Asian countries questions regarding gay and lesbian people were even too sensitive to be asked.

  Taiwan is officially wooing gay tourists in the hope of becoming Asia’s top tourist destination in a region that is often openly hostile towards gay people.

Delhi University has officially accepted transgender men and women for their postgraduate programmers this year and have plans to extend this policy to undergraduate courses as well.

A gay boutique hotel in the Cambodian capital exclusively designed for men has been opened in the heart of the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh.

  An official from the Indian federal government’s ruling party in India’s gay capital city of Mumbai is advocating for a legal decriminalizing of same-sex relations in the country.

  A lesbian couple in Taiwan is petitioning the local courts in an attempt to rectify laws which currently bar one of the women from claiming two of their children as her own.

  The venue for the 4th Asia Pacific Outgames for LGBTI athletes in February 2016 has been announced as Auckland in New Zealand.

Hundreds of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender men and women made use of the colorful public celebration of the Hindu festival to remember the dead to parade through Nepal’s capital.

The mayor of a northeastern Thai city has officiated at a wedding between two men even though Thailand does not legally recognize marriages of same-sex couples.

Books in public library that encourage homophobia or openly teach parents to “prevent” same-sex orientations in their children should come with a government approved disclaimer, say gay rights activists.