Is it possible to be Christian and gay as many reject the premise that one can be both at the same time. Rev Dr Yap Kim Hao, the first Asian Bishop of The Methodist Church in Singapore, shares his beliefs and journey to affirming gay Christians in the first of a 2-part series.
Chinese Police has shut down Beijing's first gay and lesbian culture festival despite organisers moving the event at the last minute in an effort to escape police scrutiny.
The first Beijing Gay & Lesbian Culture Festival will take place from Dec 16-18 in the Chinese capital with a series of programmes including retrospective exhibitions of TV, magazines, newspapers archives, and materials about gay culture and gay life.
A gay man in Brisbane has been sentenced to jail for 10 years for "deliberately" infecting a sex partner with HIV, making it the first of its kind in the state of Queensland. In Hollywood, Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain is in the running for seven Golden Globe awards.
A Singapore court has sentenced five men to eight to ten months in jail for providing false information when donating blood, which was later found to contain the HIV virus.
Same-sex couples in the UK can now be covered under the new Civil Partnership Act, which gives them the same rights as married heterosexual couples. In London, Robbie Williams, had accepted undisclosed libel damages from publishers of three publications that claimed he had sex with several men.
Queers from around the world gathered in November in South Korea to plot the overthrow of conventional sexual thinking at the United Nations. Doug Sanders was there.
A controversial gay-friendly ad has won a prestigious US advertising award after being banned by several US TV networks. In China, MSM have become a focal point in its HIV/AIDS fight. More on the renewed ban on 'gay' priests by the Vatican and arrests in UAE.
China's media has long tiptoed around the issue of gays and lesbians. But over the last few months, mainland journalists have been turning their attention to queers, and, for the first time, putting forward the idea that it's ok to be gay. Beijing-based Dinah Gardner has more.
Hong Kong has reported the largest increase in the number of HIV cases in the third quarter of this year, with a large increase in the number of cases among men who have sex with men. In Manila, 29-year-old man sued his employer for firing him after he participated in a "symbolic wedding" with his partner of five years.
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