The graphic video has received scathing reviews for its "horror movie trailer-style" voice-over, "1980s-style scare tactics" and a graphic image of anal cancer – similar to those seen on cigarette cartons meant to scare smokers.
Lawyer M Ravi, who had filed the legal action on behalf of his client seeking to challenge the constitutionality of Section 377A, tells Fridae that he plans to appeal the High Court's decision.
The Atlanta City Council unanimously voted to pay US$1 million to settle a lawsuit filed by patrons of a gay bar that was raided by police who claimed their civil rights were violated when dozens of officers subjected them to excessive force and homophobic abuse during the raid last year.
Delegates from Hong Kong and Macau, Japan, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan voted unanimously last Friday to form a regional network to address similar epidemiological profiles, namely rapidly rising HIV and other STI infection rates amongst MSM and transgender people, among other commonalities.
The Transgender Day of Remembrance is often left out in many LGBT event calendars in Asia, with Malaysia being one of only three Asian countries to remember the dead this year, and Kuala Lumpur among 187 cities in 19 countries worldwide, writes Yuki Choe.
70 delegates including health sector officials, researchers, United Nations officials and community representatives representing 40 organisations in Hong Kong/Macau, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, Thailand and China will convene at a landmark conference to be held in Singapore on Dec 2 & 3.
APCOM uses the occasion of World AIDS Day 2010 to sound a regional alarm about the unjust treatment of men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender people who not only have their basic human rights violated but are denied access to lifesaving HIV prevention, treatment and care.
For the first time activists in Thailand have formulated a set of demands in the form of an "Open Letter" to government. The demands were launched at the end of November in two events in Bangkok. Douglas Sanders reports.
Criticised in the past for declining to support gay marriage, Finance Minister Penny Wong – who’s Australia's first openly gay cabinet member – spoke in favour of a motion which calls on her party to support the legal right of same-sex couples to be married.
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