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Look out for SAFE Singapore, a new support group for straight family and friends of GLBT people with an upcoming website launch on Saturday, Dec 9 at Mox Bar. Fridae talks to Dr Khoo Hoon Eng, a co-founder of the group and a supportive mother of two gay sons.
A San Francisco lawmaker has reintroduced a bill seeking to legalise gay marriage in California as State lawmakers kicked off the new legislative session on Monday.
The 5th Singapore AIDS Conference was themed "HIV in Singapore: The Challenge and the Hope." Fittingly, speakers seized this opportunity to challenge the government and the public to liberalise laws and attitudes towards MSMs and the HIV-positive community.
HIV/AIDS is hitting Asia in a big way, and MSM are now bearing the brunt of it. Dr Tan Chong Kee urges all MSM to ask ourselves what we can do to stop the spread of HIV among the community.
A HIV/AIDS researcher has warned that Sydney's gay community could have an HIV infection rate that is similar to countries in Africa. South Africa is a step closer to legalising same-sex marriage after the controversial legislation passed both houses of Parliament. In Manila next week, the LGBT community and their allies will march on Dec 9 as the Philippine Congress is considering passing an Anti-Discrimination Bill.
New Zealand's Gay Men's Health launches "Assume Nothing," a major new HIV/AIDS awareness campaign; still on HIV/AIDS, the fifth Singapore AIDS Conference will be held on Dec 2. A Chinese university has approved the country's first LGBT campus group. In a landmark ruling, a court ruled that couples who marry in civil ceremonies abroad will be allowed to register their unions locally.
One of the most important key missions in having a gay pride parade is to create societal acceptance. But some Bangkok gay residents are resistant to accepting the event themselves. Fridae's Bangkok correspondent Vitaya Saeng-Aroon writes.
For all the praise and applause following Taipei's seventh - and largest to-date - Gay Pride festival, not all is as rosy as rainbow floats and party balloons. To scratch beneath the city's seven-year itch, Fridae's Taipei correspondent Philip Hwang talks to J.J. Lai, gay rights activist and owner of the city's iconic "GinGin's Bookstore," about double-faced authorities, clashes behind the scenes, and the future of gay pride in Taipei.
Lucky Seven: The latest Bangkok pride festival was held from Oct 28 to Nov 5 with no soldiers in sight. Douglas Sanders notes the changes this year as the parade appeared to be less commercial, over all, than in past years.
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