The Iraqi lesbian and gay community and NGOs dealing with gay issues are calling for urgent action to protect gays and lesbians in the country as more than 30 gays were found tortured and mutilated Baghdad in recent months.
Organisers of the Hong Kong Lesbian and Gay Film Festival are calling for entries for its 2007 short film contest to increase awareness of HIV/AIDS among gay men in the territory.
The Law Society of Singapore has released a statement disagreeing with the Ministry of Home Affairs' proposal to retain the country's laws against gay sex.
To be hosted by an openly gay man, the ground-breaking online series will focus on gay issues and will be launched on Thursday by Phoenixtv.com and other mainstream web sites.
A study of 159 men from the San Francisco Bay area has found that five sites on the penis, which all regularly removed by circumcision, are more sensitive than the most sensitive site remaining on the circumcised penis.
Never enacted in the United Kingdom, Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code and its identical twins in Bangladesh, Malaysia, Singapore and other former colonies was for export only, says professor emeritus of law Douglas Sanders.
The 1,500-member Israeli Gay Youth Organization (IGY) will be offically recognised by the country's Education Ministry. Elsewhere, a group of human rights experts have launched a groundbreaking set of principles on sexual orientation and gender identity to combat discrimination and abuse worldwide.
An anonymous anti-gay activist/group has posted a video on YouTube to protest the UK's new anti-discrimination laws as the law will be voted on in the House of Lords on Wednesday. In Melbourne, a man has been charged with 122 offences stemming from having sex with 16 men knowing that he was infected with HIV.