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.
BeLonG To Youth Services in Ireland has launched a new campaign, Stand Up! LGBT Awareness Week! to provide an annual focus for promoting friendship amongst young people as a way to combat homophobic bullying.
Police say they were investigating the bar for staging "sex shows"; bar's DJ says he believes the raid to be the result of fierce competition among local bars.
It is said to be breaking new ground for being Malaysia's first feature film with gay lead characters but members of the LGBT community say the film may in fact perpetuate common misconceptions of gay and transgender people.
Some 188 nightspots, fitness centres, saunas and other gay venues nationwide are expected to participate in a pilot scheme in which condoms and lubricant packs will be dispensed free of charge.
Fridae has initiated an online project to help those seeking temporary accommodation away from the disaster-affected regions of Japan, in the wake of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear plant crises in the north-eastern parts of the country.
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