Meet some of the gay activists and community leaders from across Asia including Nepal, Mongolia, China and India, who were in Chiangmai last weekend for the third ILGA-Asia conference, at the pride parade. Photos and text by Sylvia Tan.
The organiser has announced the cancellation of Sanctuary Cruise, set to be Asia's first all-gay cruise event. Refund procedures will be available soon.
Alongside 14 panel presentations and workshops held Jan 24 to 27 in Chiangmai, 26 Asia-based member organisations of the International Lesbian and Gay Association elects its first regional board. Fridae editor Sylvia Tan reports from Chiangmai.
LGBT competitors throughout the Asia Pacific have less than two weeks to limber up for the region's first outgames. Participants will converge on Melbourne between Jan 30 and Feb 3 where sport and advocacy will be equally on the agenda.
A new, highly drug-resistant strain of the "flesh-eating" MRSA bacteria - which is known to thrive mainly in hospitals - is now being spread among gay men in San Francisco and Boston, researchers reported on Monday.
Faced with either denying that he's gay or having to come out, a police conscript chose the latter and spoke out against the discrimination and insults he was subjected to at work.
Gay activists in Canada have hit out at new regulations that ban gay men who have been sexually active in the past five years from donating their organs for transplant.
Senator-elect for Western Australia Louise Pratt has become the second openly lesbian woman - after Climate Change Minister Penny Wong - to serve in newly-elected prime minister Kevin Rudd's administration.