A picnic to be held at the Botanic Gardens on Singapore's National Day and organised as part of Singapore's pride festival has become the latest victim of the country's anti-gay system.
Despite her loss, Kanako Otsuji is upbeat that her candidacy will give rise to a new movement dedicated to gay rights advocacy in Japan. She speaks to Fridae's Tokyo correspondent Kimberly Hughes in an exclusive interview.
Fridae is pleased to publish an excerpt of Prof Douglas Sanders's paper which was to be presented in Singapore on Aug 7 and 8. The scheduled lecture - organised in association with Singapore's pride festival - has been banned by the authorities.
Following a widely publicised ban of a photographic exhibition depicting same-sex couples kissing, a scheduled lecture by a Canadian law professor on anti-gay laws has been banned by the authorities.
Italian gay rights groups hold public "kiss-ins" to protest the arrest and brief detention of two men for "kissing" or "lewd conduct" as charged by the police.
Hong Kong's gay community gets its first ever social services centre. The government funded centre located at Nathan Road will provide counselling, training workshops and a hotline sevice.
Statistics from an US research group show that infection rates are growing among MSM in Africa, Asia and Latin America, of which less than five percent have access to HIV-related health care due to stigma, repressive laws and poor access to health services.
The Elton John AIDS Foundation has in a statement chastised the attitude of Nepalese government health officials after a local group, which is partially funded by the foundation, was asked to stop its support programme for gays and transgenders on the grounds that gays "polluted" society.
Upholding a lower court ruling, Hong Kong's highest court has ruled that the territory's laws which applies specifically to gay men but not heterosexuals "for the same or comparable conduct" is unconstitutional and discriminatory.
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