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The registration period for the 7th annual Straits Games to be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from October 10-12 has been extended.

Ever since scientists identified a hormone that is linked to male prairie voles forming life-long monogamous bonds (with female ones), scientists investigating whether the same hormone plays a similar role in male humans have released their first findings.

Some 400 people are estimated to have walked through the doors of Central Market Annexe over the weekend to attend Seksualiti Merdeka, Malaysia's first ever sexuality rights festival. Update: Audio clip added.

Senator Louise Pratt has called for gay marriage to be legalised, challenging party leader and PM Kevin Rudd, who had recently pushed the ACT government to scrap its bid for civil union and gay marriage laws on the grounds the arrangement mimicked marriage.

Public protests and demonstrations will be allowed in Singapore - at a designated park - with several restrictions, officials announced this week.

Matthew Mitcham, the only openly gay male athlete competing at the Beijing Olympics, won a gold medal in the men's 10m platform on Saturday night.

Leo Abse, a British politician recognised for having taken a leading role in decriminalising sexual relations between adult men in England and Wales, has died at age 91.

In the biggest celebrity union since California's Supreme Court overturned a state ban on same-sex marriage, US talk show host Ellen DeGeneres and her long-time partner actress Portia de Rossi marry on Saturday.

Panama, the southernmost country of Central America, has repealed its 60-year-old sodomy laws.

Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss says he supports the repeal of his country's 145-year-old British-era law which criminalises same-sex sexual relations.