Newly sworn-in US President Barack Obama commits to oppose a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, support full civil unions and federal rights of same-sex couples, expand adoption rights, fight workplace discrimination among others.
The fundraising gala premiere of a biopic about America's first openly-gay publicly-elected politician Harvey Milk has raised S$14,000 for Indignation, Pinkdot Singapore and gay filmmaker Loo Zihan's new project.
A man who slashed his colleague on the cheek with a penknife after being confronted for spreading a rumour about the victim being gay has been jailed for eight months by a Singapore court.
Following an uproar about anti-gay pastor Rick Warren being invited to give the invocation at the US President-elect's inauguration, Bishop Gene Robinson, the first openly gay bishop in the Episcopal Church, has been selected to lead prayers at an event two days earlier.
With the rise of Asian queer studies as an academic field of study in its own right, a new Queer Asia book series has been launched by the Hong Kong University Press with the first volume Undercurrents: Queer Culture and Postcolonial Hong Kong by Helen Hok-Sze Leung now on sale.