A lot has been going on in the last few days in terms of gay issues in Singapore. There’s been polls revealed, comments from the Prime Minister, and petitions relating to the Health Promotion Board’s information on homosexuality.
The International Commission of Jurists (The ICJ) deplores the enactment of a new penal code by Brunei Darussalam that violates Human Rights of LGBT community, women, and many others.
The first LGBT magazine in Bangladesh, named Roopbaan after a Bengali folk character who symbolizes the power of love, has been launched by volunteers.
The Taiwan Tongzhi Hotline Association (TTHA) and other LGBT NGOs have called upon the Ministry of Education to rethink the members of the Committee for Gender Equality, as it contains members who have spoken out against homosexuality.
A man in Shanghai has been sentenced to five months in administrative detention for organizing an orgy for himself and seven other men in Xuhui district, the local court said Tuesday.