Watch "From Me to We: 5 Years with the Beijing LGBT Center" which chronicles the beginning and evolution of the non-profit organisation which provides health services, organises social activities and advocacy programs to increase the visibility of the LGBT community within Chinese society and to raise consciousness among LGBT individuals.
Jiyi Wu (吳芷儀) and Abbygail Wu (吳伊婷), who are both transgender women and describe themselves as a genderqueer couple, are fighting to have their marriage reinstated after the country’s Ministry of the Interior (MOI) earlier this year stripped the pair of their legally married status.
The flames of homophobia are burning in Nigeria. The latest version of the deceptively named "Same-Sex Marriage Prohibition Bill” has dangerously resurfaced.
Join a panel discussion in Bangkok featuring LGBT activist Anjana Suvarnananda, Danai Linjongrat of the Rainbow Sky Association, UNESCO Bangkok's Prempreeda Pramoj Na Ayutthaya and MP Wiratana Kalayasiri who will discuss the draft law and Thai society's attitude toward same-sex unions. Members of the public are welcome.
Democratic Action Party assemblyman Teh Yee Cheu, who heads the panel with the support of both Pakatan Rakyat and Barisan National representatives, has appointed a transgender woman to the committee, a first appointment of its kind in Malaysia.
Penang's state assembly last week debated an assemblyman's proposal to set up a committee to oversee the welfare and needs of 'Mak Nyahs' (transgenders) in the northern state.
In addition to hiring a senior partner from a prominent Singapore law firm, the plaintiffs have applied to have England's former attorney-general Queen's Counsel Lord Peter Goldsmith act as co-counsel in their appeal.
One of the top three universities in Thailand has introduced two LGBT courses, a breakthrough in the country and the region. Doug Sanders reports from Bangkok.
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