Despite several event cancellations due to police intervention last year, organisers of Shanghai Pride this week announced the line-up although individual venues will only be made known days before each event.
In the first case of its kind, a 20-something transgender woman who brought a legal case against the government in the hopes of establishing her right to marry her boyfriend has lost her case.
More than a hundred members of the hard-line Islamic Defenders Front have staged demonstrations outside three cultural centres affiliated to foreign governments today to pressure the venues to call off any events related to the festival.
Despite the Prime Minister’s promise not to proactively enforce Section 377A which criminalises sex between men, a man is facing charges under the law while another two were convicted last week.
While many may remember Dr Balaji Sadasivan for putting the blame on gay men for the spread of HIV in Singapore, his political leadership and support to expand AIDS prevention programmes and increasing access to HIV testing and treatment has largely gone under the radar. (Updated)
Q! Film Festival will kick off its 2010 season with two films and an opening party in Jakarta on Friday, 24 September before travelling to Surabaya, Malang, Yogyakarta, Bali and Makassar (South Sulawesi) in October.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon called on countries to abolish laws that discriminate against gays and lesbians during a panel discussion held on the sidelines of the 15th regular session of the UN Human Rights Council.
Openly gay lawmaker Sunil Pant and dozens of LGBT activists were arrested in the Nepali capital on Tuesday in a crackdown on a rally to demand government identification papers for the third sex or transgender people.
The Exodus Ministries Trust Board is no longer eligible for tax-exempt status in New Zealand as the Charities Commission concluded last month that it is not certain if the group can be said to be providing a public benefit given that professional groups have discredited ex-gay or reparative therapy.
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