Cambodia's third annual pride festival is underway from today till May 17, scheduled to coincide with the International Day Against Homophobia (IDAHO).
31 LGBT groups from 8 Southeast Asian countries tell their governments: LGBTs being treated as "criminals" and "second class citizens" is not "acceptable", and the "recognition, promotion, and protection of LGBTIQ rights is long overdue".
Pakistan's Supreme Court also recommended that transgenders be allocated a certain number of government jobs and specifically as tax collectors to utilise their "special skills".
What has been brewing over two weeks on the internet has now boiled over onto the cover pages of the two most widely circulated English language newspapers in Singapore today.
Singapore's most anticipated public rally to support the freedom of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people (LGBT) to love is back for the third year on June 18.
The 33-minute documentary, which is the first project of its kind about the Yogyakarta Principles and LGBT rights in Asia, will be screened in Hong Kong, Beijing and Cambodia in May while many other countries including the Philippines, Indonesia and Thailand are in the process of planning events around the video. Watch the trailer now.
Civil society groups in Malaysia have blasted the Terengganu Education Department for sending 66 schoolboys with ‘effeminate’ tendencies to a 4-day boot camp held to intervene before the boys “reach the point of no return”, meaning before they "become" gay or transgender.
"Privacy aside, is a question on someone's sexuality really so negative and undeserving of a response?" Asked The China Post in an editorial following a public debate with gay and women's groups expressing their outrage after a would-be presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen was asked to clarify her sexual orientation.
Although a local newspaper reported that Huangpu police acted after receiving complaints that the bar was staging sex shows, the claim has been vehemently refuted by everyone present on the day, according to the Shanghaiist blog.
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