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.
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.
Openly lesbian Muslim activist and author Irshad Manji spoke about her faith after she had one event at a university in Yogyakarta cancelled, and another in Jakarta stopped midway where she had to leave under heavy police escort as religious extremists violently protested the event.
For My Colours, a coalition which organised the IDAHO rallies from 2005-2008, has clashed with the Pink Alliance – organisers of this year's rally on May 12 – over an invited politican known for her anti-mainland immigration and anti-democratic views in an all-out spat.
The burnt body of a 16-year-old female teenager described in a local media report as often dressing as a man and who has been missing for three weeks has been found in the town of Gua Musang in the state of Kelantan.
For the first time in 20 years, gay and bisexual men accounted for most of the new infections detected in the first half of 2011, according to statistics provided by the Ministry of Health.
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