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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.

Although rumours about the 'gay bomb' initially surfaced in 2004, San Francisco's CBS 5 News station reported last Friday that Pentagon officials admitted military leaders had considered, and then subsequently rejected, building the so-called gay bomb in 1994.

Beijing's gay venues to distribute free condoms and safe-sex literature as part of new HIV/AIDS education campaign.

Five months after creating a furor with his use of an anti-gay slur against a fellow castmate, actor Isaiah Washington will not return for the show's fourth season.

Reporting an increase in new HIV infections in the first quarter this year among gay men in Hong Kong, a government consultant also warned that prevalence of the disease in this group could hit 30 percent by 2020 if left to its own devices. HIV prevalence in this group is estimated at four percent now.