Fridae

Previously known as The Pink Mega Ball, the annual fundraiser for Kuala Lumpur's PT Foundation is back this month with a brand new name - The LPG Hollywood Glamour Ball!

Under new rules announced last Thursday, same-sex partners of British troops serving in the war against Iraq will qualify for pensions should their partners be killed in action.

A Beijing man who claims to have contracted HIV from his 70-year-old male lover has been arrested for the murders of the man and his daughter.

An Egyptian court has reconvicted the 21 men, arrested during the 2001 Queen Boat raid, to three years in jail for practising homosexuality.

A researcher examining the development of sexual identity in young, non-heterosexual women has found female sexual development to be more fluid than that of males.

Thailand's male police officers are battling more than just crime - having to fend off unwanted advances from gay men and straight women who seem to lust after them in their new snug-fitting uniforms.

The Australian city of Sydney celebrated its 25th Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras last weekend with much fanfare after almost going under last year.

Egyptian police have arrested 13 more men in Cairo for having consensual gay sex in an apartment last week.

A Cairo appeals court has last week upheld the conviction of a gay man who was arrested after using the Internet to arrange a meeting with another man who turned out to be an undercover policeman.

Fridae will launch a new Chinese language personals site, which will be Asia's first personals online service, customised for and dedicated to the needs of the native Chinese gay and lesbian communities, particularly in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.