Anti-gay activists in Russia have sued US pop star Madonna for about US$10.5 million, claiming they were offended by her support for gay rights during a recent concert in St. Petersburg and she had contravened Russian law by spreading homosexual "propaganda".
A 52-second animation featuring two plasticine characters recalling a teenage crush will not be shown at Landing Places, a multidisciplinary exhibition to be launched tonight and held in conjunction with IndigNation, Singapore's gay pride festival that runs until Aug 25.
More than 80 LGBT activists, representing 53 organisations and over 23 different regions in China attended the first ever national China LGBT Community Leader Conference in June. Watch Video here.
Despite having been harassed, threatened and faced with pending "kill the gays" laws, the LGBT community organised its first gay pride parade on Aug 4 in Entebbe.
Ten publicly out gay and lesbian athletes have won medals at the Olympic Games in London, reports SBNation, a network of online sports communities. It added that the argument against coming out as it will negatively affect an athlete's performance doesn't hold as over 43% of the out athletes (10 of the 23) won a medal at the Games.
A lesbian couple has become the first to wed in a same-sex Buddhist wedding ceremony in Taiwan; gay rights groups say they hope the island will become the first place in Asia to legalise same-sex marriage.
Openly gay author and pastor Rev. Oyoung Wen Feng, who legally married his partner Phineas Newborn III on Aug 31 last year in New York, hosted a wedding banquet in downtown Kuala Lumpur last Saturday.
Last month, Justice Minister Ha Hung Cuong announced that his ministry is considering legalising same-sex marriage. Fridae speaks with Le Quang Binh, head of iSEE, a not-for-profit research organisation that promotes understanding of LGBTs in society, about recent developments and societal acceptance of LGBTs.
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