A number of support groups such as the Tongqi Association (同妻联合会) and Pink Space Sexuality Research Centre in Beijing now exist to support women who are married to gay men and are struggling to cope.
Rights workers and members of Cambodia's nascent gay community say the case is an example of homophobia as a 20-year-old woman was sentenced to jail based on falsified documents submitted to the court identifying the "victim" as 14 years old.
Margaret Court, regarded as the greatest female tennis player in Australia and now a Pentecostal minister, has caused a furore with recent comments that gay marriage would legalise abominable sexual practices and gay people could be cured of their orientation.
The Kuala Lumpur High Court will hear the judicial review application filed by committee members of Malaysia's only sexuality rights festival, which was forcibly cancelled by the police last November, on Feb 21.
The Seoul Student Rights Ordinance that contains sexual orientation and gender identity protections, which are strongly opposed by religious groups, was passed on Monday.
A Malaysian man, who was reported missing as early as 2008 while he was a medical student in Ireland, is now a subject of controversy in his home country after photos of him in a same-sex civil union surfaced last week.
In its first official report on the issue, the United Nations top human rights official urged countries to abolish legal discrimination against gays, including the death penalty for consensual sex, days after the U.S. government said it would use foreign aid and diplomacy to promote gay equal rights.
The LGBT Coalition for Seoul Student Rights Ordinance is petitioning the Education Committee of Seoul Metropolitan Council to keep the clauses which will prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) in response to opposition from fundamental Christian groups who want the SOGI references deleted.
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