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A former American academic specializing in gender and sexuality studies has pleaded guilty to raping and molesting underage boys in the Philippines.

  A gay rabbi from England living in Israel was installed as the leader of Adat Shalom Emanuel in Rehovot, the only non-Orthodox synagogue in the city.

  Malaysian religious police arrested a lesbian couple after raiding a hotel room in Johor Baru where they were staying, media reported.

  Overseas talented workers are shying away from moving to Hong Kong because of the city’s lack of protection for LGBT people, says a senior British diplomat.

    A man who sued a clinic in China for carrying out “gay cures” is petitioning the World Health Organization to condemn and ban “gay conversion” therapies worldwide.

  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.