Three years has passed since Delhi High Court’s 2009 ruling that legalised sexual relations between men, that decision is currently being challenged in the Supreme Court. A roundtable discussion was organised by UNDP India to discuss the issues surrounding the judgment. Fridae’s Asha Vakolawali has more.
Over 350 LGBT business executives (including Fridae Chairman Paul Thompson) and allies from more than 26 countries, representing more than 80 organizations and government agencies, gathered in London to share their best practices and ideas for creating workplaces where LGBT people are safe, accepted, and valued.
The Internet was abuzz over the weekend with reports that Google has launched a worldwide push to legalise same-sex marriage but it has since clarified that it is not the case, a Google spokesperson told Fridae on Monday.
Ismaili Queers: Advocates for Pluralism, a community group of LGBT-identified Shia Ismaili Muslims, proudly marched as a solo contingent for the first time at the Toronto pride parade on Jul 1.
Human rights activists are demanding an investigation into the case involving athlete Pinki Pramanik, who was arrested on charges of rape and facing claims she is a man, then held in a male prison ward and filmed in a video while undergoing a gender determination test that later went viral.
Long known to be in the "glass closet" – a phrase used for a person who is known to be gay but is not out publicly, CNN anchor Anderson Cooper has confirmed this week that he is gay.
It is a record turnout for Pink Dot, the only public rally to advocate LGBT acceptance in Singapore, and which has even inspired similar events around the world. Watch the video here.
Queensland's Liberal National Party government have not only voted to downgrade civil partnerships to “registered relationships”; same-sex couples and singles will also be denied the right to have a child by surrogacy under plans flagged by the state government.
Alex Au, a Singapore gay activist, social commentator and former Fridae columnist, has been awarded the Humanist of the Year 2012 by the Humanist Society (Singapore) for being a "vocal defender of Singapore’s secularism and an outspoken critic of religious extremism, pseudoscientific institutions and creationism."
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