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The inaugural Asia Pacific Outgames will coincide with Melbourne's annual Midsumma Festival in January and February next year.

A nightclub at Novotel Bangkok, which was widely reported to have discriminated against a transvestite by barring him from entering its premises, has issued an apology admist a boycott that was underway.

Due to a technicality, lesbians, gays and transgenders in Thailand will not be protected under the country's new constitution.

Australia's government must amend laws that discriminate against same-sex couples, which the government's human rights commission documented last week in a landmark report, Human Rights Watch said today.

LGBT advocates plan to launch a boycott against the Novotel Bangkok hotel for barring a transvestite from its nightclub.

A Pakistani high court has sent a couple consisting of a transgendered man and a woman to jail as same-sex marriage is prohibited in the country.

Some three million people packed the streets of Sao Paulo for what organisers claim to be the world's largest gay pride parade.

To coincide with gay pride month in the US, major cable television network CNN's special 5-day report about the America's LGBT community culminates on June 27, or June 28 for viewers in Asia.

Hailed as "groundbreaking'' by the state government, a gay male couple in Perth is believed to be the first gay couple in the country to adopt a stranger's child under the amended adoption laws.

Alan Chambers, the head of Exodus International, believed to be the world's largest ministry for former gays, no longer believes the term "ex-gay" is appropriate to describe those who have undergone religious reparative therapy to be "set free" from homosexuality.