Fresh from its success with Nation.V in Phuket, Thailand, Fridae has announced Ministry of Sound, Taipei to be the host of SnowBall'5 on December 23. The party will feature one of LA's hottest DJs, Kimberly S, who is in constant demand to spin at the hottest dance events in the US and some of Hollywood's elite movie premiere parties.
There is probably more talk about gender non-conformity in Asia than in the West. But paradoxically some US court decisions lead the way on fighting gender discrimination under the label of sex discrimination.
A new anonymous clinic targeting Thai MSM which will provide free HIV and STI testing has opened in Bangkok. In Singapore, a gay web site has been banned while another fined. George Takei, Star Trek's Mr Sulu has come out last week surprising fans around the world.
A survey of some 2,000 people will be used to assess the general Hong Kong public's likely reception to proposed anti-discrimination laws. In Tennessee, a judge has shut down the ex-gay Love In Action Ministry, a "treatment" centre which claims to help gays "turn" straight.
The inaugural Girl Pride Asia festival will be held in Phuket, concurrently with Nation.V from Nov 4-6. Despite being in the works for over a year, plans for Singapore to be home to Britain's Warwick University's branch campus have fallen through. In HK, activists criticised its leader who disgreed with a recent ruling which decriminalised gay acts between men under 21.
Teens are coming out earlier than ever before, according to a new US study that's also featured in the Oct 10, 2005 issue of Time magazine. In Germany, health authorities are alarmed over a surge in the number of new cases of HIV particularly within the gay community, meanwhile, gay Arabs have a new magazine to call their own.
In response to the PM's comments on Thursday, People Like Us has called on the Singapore government to show that it is not homophobic and to accommodate the gay community's interests.
Despite having hosted the Nation party which is one of Asia's largest gay and lesbian events for four consecutive years until it was banned this year, Singapore will unlikely be hosting any major gay events anytime soon as the Prime Minister said that such events are "offensive to a large number of Singaporeans."
In Hong Kong, the government has appealed a recent High Court ruling that struck down a law prohibiting consensual gay sex for men under 21, meanwhile Catholic politicians who support same-sex unions and/or abortion rights, and other laws that violate church doctrine may be barred from Sacrament as the world's bishops meet in Vatican City.
Hong Kong's Chi Heng Foundation announces awards to acknowledge and encourage the media for positive coverage of LGBT issues in light of a smear campaign in the media by anti-gay groups to prevent any attempt to extend equal rights to homosexuals. Tim Cribb reports from Hong Kong.
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