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A gathering held to mark the end of this year's International Day Against Homophobia (IDAHO) celebrations in the Cameroonian capital of Yaoundé turned violent after a mob forced their way into the venue.

Luka Rocco Magnotta, a 29-year-old Canadian porn actor, was arrested Monday in Berlin after a week-long international manhunt and expected to stand trial in Canada for murdering a 33-year-old Chinese man, who is believed at one point to have been his lover.

Sri Lanka's LGBT community, long struggling for acceptance, celebrate their eighth Pride Festival this week and are featured in a special issue of Sri Lanka's Life Times in which it declared: "Life Times Sri Lanka supports the decriminalisation of private acts between consenting adults, gay or straight!"

Barclays Bank becomes the first bank and joins Google to support Singapore's largest LGBT-supportive public rally to be held June 30.

The lawyer for Dharun Ravi, who was found guilty of spying on and intimidating his gay roommate, and sentenced to 30 days in jail last month, has filed a notice to appeal his hate crime conviction.

Darwin, the capital city of Australia's Northern Territory, has been selected to host the 3rd Asia Pacific Outgames in May 2014.

With less than a month to go before the annual Pink Dot Singapore event slated to be held Jun 30, this year's campaign video dubbed Someday, "invites Singaporeans to envision a future in which Singapore's LGBT community will be able to openly celebrate their diversity, free of discrimination and prejudice."

Sponsored by Barclays and conducted by Hong Kong University’s Public Opinion Programme, this is the first statistically reliable survey published on Hong Kong’s attitudes to sexual orientation and gender identity in the workplace.

From a street forum in Hong Kong to a workshop on family acceptance of LGBT people and coming out as LGBT in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Various cities in Asia are commemorating International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO) today.

Hong Kong commemorates the International Day Against Homophobia And Transphobia with appearances by recently out Cantopop star Anthony Wong, well-known Hong Kong activist Billy Leung and his mother; as well as Legislative Councillors Audrey Eu, founder of the Civic Party, and Cyd Ho and Lee Cheuk Yan, founders of the Labour Party.