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.
In response to the National Council Of Churches In Singapore (NCCS)'s statement on the proposed amendments to the Penal Code, the Free Community Church and SAFE Singapore have issued statements objecting to NCCS's call to criminalising lesbian acts and advocating the retention of Section 377A.
Hong Kong's Legislative Council panel has unanimously passed a motion demanding that the Broadcasting Authority withdraws its earlier ruling that a TV show that discussed same-sex partnerships was biased. In France, the highest court has declared the first marriage by a gay couple in France to be unlawful.
As Singapore is looking at its first major review of its Penal Code in more than 20 years, the National Council of Churches has praised the government for its proposal to retain laws criminalising homosexual acts, and for the first time advocated the specific inclusion of lesbians in its scope.
Sen. Hillary Clinton has pledged to support gay causes if elected president in the 2008 race. Same-sex couples in Taiwan may soon be covered under the revised Domestic Violence Bill. In London, a man responsible for the 1999 bombing of a London gay bar, which killed three, has had his original prison sentence extended from 30 years to 50.