In a written statement, the Ministry of Women, Family & Community Development clarified that it in fact provides counselling and guidance to transgender people without the “intention of ‘correcting’ behaviour etc in line with socially accepted norms.”
A couple in their late twenties is said to be the first lesbian couple to publicly marry in Malaysia and have a wedding banquet for 400 guests, according to local media.
A candlelight vigil for Aleesha will be held in Kuala Lumpur on Jul 30 to "stand for the justice she was denied and to remember her courage in fighting for what is due to her."
After a 17-year wait, ILGA, which was the first international LGBTI organisation to get ECOSOC consultative status in 1993 but only to lose it the following year, has finally regained its status.
The head of Singapore delegation, Minister of State for Community Development, Youth and Sports, Halimah Yacob reiterated that the government has no plans to repeal the law against male-to-male sex when asked to clarify the status of lesbians in Singapore.
A 3-member team from Sayoni, a queer women's group in Singapore, is in New York to present a report to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) for the first time.
Ladlad, a LGBT political party, has called the regulation which bans gay and lesbian prison wardens from frisking and conducting strip searches on jail visitors of the same sex “a clear case of discrimination”.
The contributions of slain San Francisco politician Harvey Milk and the Stonewall riots in New York City in 1969 that helped launch the LGBT rights movement will soon be taught in California classrooms alongside well known activists such as Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks who are credited for making a lasting impact on civil rights in the United States.
As China's gay population is hardest hit by HIV/AIDS, senior Chinese health officials, representatives from civil societies and other delegates met to discuss a new five-year strategy to scale-up HIV prevention programmes and treatment, and promote community-based organisation participation.
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