A Hong Kong-based charity that uses art to fight sexual-orientation discrimination is taking the largest ever LGBT Asian contemporary art exhibition to Bangkok in November.
Hong Kong’s government this week rejected calls to include a question on sexual orientation in its 2021 census, against LGBT lawmakers and activists voicing of a need for such evidence to advocate for laws and policies.
The party plans to submit revisions to the country’s civil code to allow same-sex couples to marry or enter into a special partnership with equivalent rights.
They plan to get married in every country where it is legal to do. This will take six months and is intended to raise awareness about the lack of such rights in their home country.
In a patriarchal country with conservative views about gender identity and sexual orientation, taboo was robustly challenged at the country’s first ever Miss Universe Mongolia competition.
In an important development in Hong Kong two gay men have challenged the law banning same-sex marriage and the application has been given permission to proceed. This is the first time that such a challenge has been made.
LGBT activists in Malaysia have called for a “need to stand up against injustice”, following a viral video of two men assaulted for having sex in a car, and what happened to the two unidentified men has been condemned as a criminal offense – and a hate crime.
Japan’s tourism industry is looking for ways to attract LGBT visitors from overseas and take advantage of their tendency to spend more than average tourists.
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