The sell out event will see the premiere of Anniversary, a specially commissioned short film by celebrated filmmaker Royston Tan and writer Alfian Sa'at, and an auction of specially conceptualised artwork by fashion photographers Chuando and Frey.
For the fifth year running, Fridae has been conferred an award - the highest level of recognition awarded to a gay company - for its support and contribution to Singapore's arts scene by the National Arts Council.
The following is a media statement issued by 16 human rights and civil society organisations at the Commonwealth People’s Forum (CPF), a gathering of civil society organisations that meets in advance or and sends a statement to the Commonwealth Heads of Governments Meeting.
Alex Au speaks with Stefano Fabeni, the Director of Global Rights' LGBTI Initiative; Joel Simpson, Guyana's Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD); and other activists at the Commonwealth People's Forum who are working to highlight LGBT-related concerns in former British colonies that have inherited Victorian-era sodomy laws from the former colonising power.
Barbados Minister for Family, Youth and Sports recently announced that gays, lesbians, and transgenders will be protected under legislation against domestic violence. Writing from Port of Spain, the capital of Trinidad and Tobago where the Commonwealth People's Forum was recently held, Alex Au meets with Elizabeth, a MTF transgender from Barbados and finds out more about her country.
After weeks of heated debate about the separation of church and state an alliance between various Filipino LGBT organisations and youth groups brought their grievances to the headquarters of the Philippine Commission on Elections (Comelec) Wednesday morning and demanded a recent discriminatory ruling be struck down. Laurindo Garcia reports from Manila.
The International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) has issued an action alert to demand that the Philippines Commission on Elections (Comelec) grants the immediate accreditation of an ‘LGBT political party’ Ang LADLAD so that its member(s) can run for a seat in the Lower House of the Philippines Congress in the May 2010 national elections.
Danton Remoto, head of gay group Ang Ladlad, on Wednesday vowed to run as a senator in 2010 after the group was denied accreditation based on “moral grounds."
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