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.
For the first time in Taiwan, three openly gay candidates are gunning for seats as councillors in districts in Taipei City and Xinbei City during the special municipality elections on Nov 27.
The amendment narrowly passed 79-70 reversing the 2008 declaration that included an explicit reference to killings committed because of the victims' sexual orientation. IGLHRC reports.
In a speech hailed as "amazing" and "inspiring", a 14-year-old gay student told a school board that he was bullied by classmates and had considered suicide when he was 9, and defended a teacher who was temporarily suspended for taking two students to task for their racist and anti-gay remarks.
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