In the infamous Cairo 52 trial that lasted four months, twenty-three Egyptian men accused of being gay have been sentenced to one to five-year jail terms with hard labour while the rest were acquitted.
While international human rights groups have gone to great lengths in campaigning against the trial, Egyptian groups had distanced themselves from the whole affair.
John Howard secures a rare third consecutive 3-year term as Australia's Prime Minister much to the disappointment of gay and lesbian civil rights advocates.
A public health department survey revealed that men who have sex with men were more likely than heterosexual men to use Viagra, while another survey showed that half the men took it for purely recreational reasons.
On an island famous for many of Asia's democratic firsts, history is being made once again. Chen Wen-yen, has become the first openly gay man to run for a seat in Taiwan's Legislative Yuan (Legislature).
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