Taiwanese-born filmmaker Ang Lee won the best director Oscar for his groundbreaking movie Brokeback Mountain, becoming the first Asian to win one of Hollywood's top honours. Meanwhile in Sydney, about 300,000 people turned out to watch this year's event along the mile-long parade route.
Seven US paratroopers have been charged with "knowingly engaging in sex for money on a public Web site." Meanwhile, gay men and lesbians in Hanoi now have an official gay association while teenage conscripts in Israel can now choose to volunteer for a gay group instead of mandatory military service.
A new study by Dutch researchers has unsurprisingly found that a gay man's self esteem is directly linked to the size of his penis while another study has added a twist to the gay gene debate. Meanwhile in Kuala Lumpur, Police has conducted second round of raids on 'gay' spas last week.
A new UK study has revealed that homosexual couples in same-sex partnerships could gain health in additional to legal advantages. In Bangkok, go-go boys are now fully clothed in bars while Police in KL have raided three gay saunas.
More than 700 people were the first in Singapore to watch acclaimed Taiwanese director Ang Lee's tale of two cowboys who fell in love in the mountains of Wyoming.
First ever nation-wide HIV education campaign targeted at MSM to be launched in Thailand this month. China releases number of gay men for first time, meanwhile in Australia, Aussie PM brands gay civil unions a "cop-out" in response to a new push by Liberal moderates to legally recognise gay relationships.
The Human Rights Campaign has called on US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice to explain the US' decision to vote alongside Iran, Pakistan and China, among others, to exclude two well-respected LGBT rights groups from an UN panel of some 3,000 international non-governmental groups.
Former Malaysian deputy PM Anwar Ibrahim is suing his former boss, Dr Mahathir Mohamad, for 100 million ringgit over remarks describing him as being ''gay'' and a ''sodomiser.''
School students, police and firefighters were part of the 40,000 who marched to support gay and lesbian rights in Melbourne, Australia as sister city Sydney launched its annual four-week festival last Friday at the Sydney Opera House.
In a case which has frustrated both Police and members of the gay community in Tampa, Florida, a man has finally been sentenced to 200 years jail for drugging and raping young men while his accomplice awaits trial. Meanwhile, Brokeback Mountain has received eight Oscar nods although audiences in China Malaysia will not be able to see it in the theatres.
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