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A group of parents associated with PFLAG China wrote in an open letter to the delegates of the National People's Congress urging them to legalise same-sex marriage. A recent poll on Chinese Internet portal Sina.com shows 52% of over 72,000 respondents say they support same-sex marriage.

Media outlets have declared the Queen of England to support gay rights even as the new Commonwealth Charter she signed yesterday makes no mention of sexual orientation; the Commonwealth Secretariat clarifies the news to be an "interpretation that certain publications who have reported (it) have formed on their own."

Men who have sex with men accounted for 254 new cases, nearly half of the 513 new HIV cases in 2012.

The fifth annual event to support the freedom to love will be held on June 29.

Singapore's anti-gay sex law, section 377A, was challenged today in the nation's High Court by human rights lawyer M. Ravi.

Allegations of police brutality at the Sydney Mardi Gras parade last weekend have been reported as a video of a teen being handcuffed and thrown to the ground by a policeman after the parade has gone viral and from a second man who has come forward.

A lesbian couple, who held the first same-sex wedding at Tokyo Disney Resort, has made headlines around the world after they tweeted photographs of their celebrations last Friday.

Tan Eng Hong's civil appeal challenging the Constitutionality of statute 377A of Singapore's Penal Code will be heard in the High Court on Wednesday, Mar 6.

Malaysia-based AirAsia is an official sponsor of the Sydney Mardi Gras for the first time which is also a first for any mainstream Asia-based company.

Ging Cristobal, Project Coordinator for the Asia Program of IGLHRC, has called the initiative a "major breakthrough" as police officers in major provinces all over the Philippines will undergo training that will include a LGBT community dialogue, and gender and sexuality workshops with human rights regional officers.