The Red Cross of Thailand announced last week that it would change its screening process for blood donors following strong protest from gay rights groups reacting to an earlier announcement on a blanket ban of gay blood donors.
A Jihad for Love, a highly regarded documentary about gay Muslims, alongside three other documentaries have been banned from being screened at Singapore's film festival this month.
"It's my life," a new multi-media campaign along with a Bahasa Indonesia website, aims to reach MSMs in Indonesia through personal stories as well as interaction with an HIV-positive MSM to highlight the safer sex message as well as care and treatment services.
Following recent raids and arrests at saunas, clubs and cruising spots, China's best known AIDS activist Wan Yanhai who circulated reports earlier this week about the government's crackdown tells Fridae's Beijing correspondent Dinah Gardner about the local situation.
Mox, recently voted as Singapore's favourite gay bar at the Fridae �-List Awards, will soon be closing its doors, with a garage sale on Thursday 27 and a farewell party on Saturday 29 March 2008. Fridae reminisces with co-owner Toby Hui.
The preliminary findings from the Feb 2007 Sydney Gay Community Periodic Survey, and a report predicting HIV infection rates in Australia affirm that NSW has maintained, and may even see a reduction in HIV infection rates. How does NSW continue to buck the global trend? Justin Ellis finds out.
Choi Hyun-sook hopes to become South Korea's first openly gay legislator. Although her historic candidacy is another sign of Korea's changing attitudes about homosexuality, the social climate for the country's lesbians still presents many challenges. Matt Kelley reports from Seoul.
Taiwan will go to the polls this Saturday to elect a successor to Chen Shui-bian of the Democratic Progressive Party who has held office since 2000. Last month, same-sex marriage came up during a televised debate between KMT's Ma Ying-Jeou of and DPP's Frank Hsieh.
Changing the world might take more than 5,000 euros. But it's a start for Beijing-based lesbian group Common Language, the prize winner of the Mama Cash awards.
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