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Although the couple has been charged for having a gay relationship and media reports have correspondingly described the couple as 'gay,' it has emerged that Tiwonge Chimbalanga, one half of the couple, identifies as a woman and has lived as one all her life.

Gay rights activists held a peaceful "guerrilla-style hit-and-run" protest in central Moscow that for the first time in five years did not result in any arrests or bashings.

A debate is brewing about whether David Laws is trying to use his sexuality which he says he prefers to keep secret (until the scandal broke that is) to explain away a controversial expenses claim.

Media reports say the pair was reportedly forcibly separated and taken to their respective home villages after their release from prison.

Close to 50 people protested the police's inaction by cycling near the park where the scheduled event was to be held but the gathering was cut short after participants were warned that members of the Islamist group bent on breaking up any IDAHO activity were on their way.

Nineteen of 48 countries in the Asia Pacific region criminalise male-to-male sex which contributes to over 90 percent of gay and bisexual men in the region being denied access to HIV prevention and care services. Fridae’s Laurindo Garcia reports.

Days before the raid, TV3's 999 programme showed a 7-minute clip of a reporter going undercover with a concealed camera in a gay massage centre and a raid on an establishment in Cheras where the authorities stormed occupied private rooms.

While this might sound like another story of a closeted gay politician whose double life is exposed, David Campbell was outed not because he is known to have caused harm to the gay community – the most commonly agreed on circumstance in which 'outing' is justifiable.

A judge has sentenced a gay couple in Malawi to the maximum 14 years in prison for unnatural acts and gross indecency.

Fridae contributor and Bangkok resident Douglas Sanders sends an update about Bangkok's gay areas as a curfew across Bangkok on Wednesday night has been announced after Thai security forces today stormed the main camp occupied by anti-government protesters in the city's commercial district - triggering rioting and violence across the capital.