Loving Parents of LGBT (同志父母愛心協會), Taiwan's first official group for parents of LGBT people, was launched last Friday, Jul 8 at a press conference held at the at the Legislative Yuan. (New audio clip and video added.)
With 103 suspected anti-LGBT hate crime deaths since 1996 including 28 cases during the first half of 2011 alone, the Philippine LGBT Hate Crime Watch has embarked on a public campaign to call for more awareness and legislative change. Fridae speaks to researcher Marlon Lacsamana to find out more.
Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad stunned many on Monday by calling homosexuality "unnatural", and a "disease" which is "spreading fast" in the country.
The US embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan reportedly held a LGBT Pride Celebration ceremony on June 26 which has since drew the ire of conservative Islamic groups with one deeming the event the second most dangerous attack by the US against Pakistan, following missiles fired from unmanned drones.
Thirteen US Democratic senators released a video on Wednesday morning as part of the online "It Gets Better" video campaign, aimed at preventing suicide among LGBT youths.
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is expected to appoint a senior coordinator for sexual orientation and gender identity who will be responsible for advising the USAID administrator on this agenda.
Hundreds of members of Chennai's LGBT community and their allies including staffers from the German and US foreign office marched in the southern Indian city on Sunday morning.
New York, the the birthplace of the gay and lesbian rights movement in the United States, has become the sixth and the most populous US state to legalise same-sex marriage.
The 5th Beijing Queer Film Festival was held from June 15-19 at different locations after the festival, which was scheduled to take place at an undisclosed location in the capital's Xicheng District, was forced to be cancelled.
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