Community advocacy organisation GetUp and Australian Marriage Equality (AME) have outbid high-power business executives to win an online charity auction and will send three same-sex couples to discuss same-sex marriage with PM Julia Gillard over dinner.
An estimated 10,000 people turned up at Hong Lim Park on Saturday as a show of their acceptance of LGBTs in Singapore, and support for inclusiveness, diversity and the freedom to love.
The resolution was passed narrowly with 23 votes in favour, 19 against and three abstentions. Today's resolution is the first UN resolution ever to bring specific focus to human rights violations based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
The newly proposed criminal code in Nepal is reported to contain provisions which will criminalise "unnatural" sexual acts including same-sex sexual relations. Fridae speaks to Sunil Pant, an activist and Nepal’s first openly gay MP, about the impact of the new laws if approved.
Google Singapore has become the first international company to officially support Pink Dot 2011. Fridae speaks with Google's Ann Lavin and finds out how Google Singapore came to support the event, its commitment to workplace diversity and what they really mean when they say "being yourself is a job requirement".
The declaration is the first General Assembly statement on AIDS to explicitly include men who have sex with men (MSM), breaking a pervasive silence about this population at the official level and creating unprecedented opportunities for advocacy to promote MSM health and human rights.
Relatives of Kirk Murphy, who took his own life in 2003 at age 38, reveals the damage done to their brother who at age 5 was enrolled in an experimental programme run by discredited psychologist George Rekers to 'treat' his feminine behaviour.
"I think it is important for it to be said here in Singapore that there are gay people everywhere and if suddenly all them stood up and said: 'This is me. It's like left-handedness, it's no big deal. Get over it. Have an aspirin. Have a lie down. You'll feel better tomorrow.' And things will be different." – The Hon. Michael Kirby
Thousands in Oregon, Portland turned up at the location where two gay men who were apparently attacked for holding hands to show their solidarity and protest against anti-LGBT violence.
Prominent gay rights activists, Americans Dan Choi and Andy Thayer, and France's Louis-George Tin, were among the dozens arrested for trying to hold two unauthorized gay-rights demonstrations in the Russian capital on Saturday.
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