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The Swedish Parliament on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly in favour of introducing a gender-neutral marriage law which will in fact allow same-sex couples the same marriage rights as heterosexuals.

A 43-year old woman who faces likely deportation to the Philippines on Friday leaving behind her partner of 23 years and two twelve-year-old twin sons in Pacifica, California, has been allowed a two week reprieve from deportation.

Japanese nationals wanting to marry their same-sex partners who are citizens of countries where such unions are legal may soon be able to do so.

Spend your pink dollars at gay businesses this April, urges 5Degrees which has got over 60 businesses in Singapore signed up for its first ever Pink Month campaign.

Hong Kong LGBT organisations uncover a sinister Christian fundamentalist-inspired pattern of complaints about HIV and gay-related campaigns that have wended their way through the Government system which resulted in a series of harassing inquiries. Nigel Collett reports.

Contrary to the oft-heard refrain by marketers about affluent gay men and women being a "dream demographic," a study in the US has found that LGB Americans struggle with poverty just as much as, if not more than, heterosexuals.

Since the Holy See had said that it advocates against criminal penalties against homosexual persons, Amnesty International attempted to engage the Pope while on his first pilgrimage to Africa.

Over 600 gay men are expected to cruise from Hong Kong to Singapore on the first all-gay voyage in the region this weekend.

The Merriam-Webster dictionary, among others, now include same-sex relationships under the definition of marriage.

Thirty-eight graduates of the United States Military Academy at West Point in New York, the oldest military school in US, have come out as gay to advocate the full acceptance of gay service members. *Video added*