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Singapore's highest court has not only dismissed a lawsuit by a gay man fighting workplace discrimination at a multinational departmental store but ruled that he must pay for legal costs.

Despite the government's pro-gay stance, society's marginalizing and prejudice against men who have sex with men put them at a greater risk of contracting HIV, says UNAIDS.

A Beijing court has agreed to hear a case against a Chinese clinic offering gay "conversion therapy" a move that activists hope will usher in an era or tolerance.

A Macau-based LGBT voluntary organization is urging the Portuguese president to pressure the Macau government into adopting laws allowing marriages between same-sex couples.

The International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHOT) is the largest annual LGBT solidarity action and will take place on May 17th 2014. This years theme is 'Free Expression', and there's loads of events in the region, so find one near you to join.

The Pink Alliance announced today that Geena Rocero, a Filipino-American fashion model who made international headlines after she revealed that she's transgender, would participate in a candlelight vigil, taking place on Friday, 16 May at 6.30pm at Charter Garden in Central.

A public service video campaign using transgender women to get motorists to use their seat belts while driving on Indian roads has gone viral on the Internet.

Thailand is becoming a favorable destination for the LGBT people wanting to make use of new surrogacy guidelines that give them a chance of being parents.

Beijing police May 7 detained as many as nine civil society activists meeting for a seminar to discuss obstacles facing gay groups wishing to register as nongovernmental organizations in China.

Pasuquin town in northern Philippines has this year once again conducted its gay pride festival, doing so annually since 1972 and making it the oldest recorded gay pride parade in Asia.