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Vanda Miss Joaquim, who named herself after Singapore’s national flower, is one of Singapore’s most famous drag queens and has been fighting prejudice in the conservative country for ten years.

‘Could someone please teach me how to control my LGBT weather powers?’

To mark International Women’s Day, a Japanese LGBT recruitment company highlighted the everyday stigma faced by trans women.

'The Government is firm that LGBT practices will never be accepted in this country’ he said.

It has come to our attention that there are a number of spammers and scammers attempting to use the fridae.asia site to contact unsuspecting people.

A sex education programme for schools in Singapore is under fire for promoting ‘healthy heterosexual marriages’. 

Earlier this week, Malaysia’s tourism minister said there were no homosexuals in the country.

Sexual acts between soldiers can be punished with up to two years in prison.

On 21 February, Chiang Mai celebrated its first LGBT Pride festival since 2009, after the city’s last Pride Parade was cancelled following harassment from counter-protests.

Coconuts Bangkok has put together a very helpful and comprehensive update on the Civil Partnership Bill in Thailand and what this might mean for LGBTs in Thailand.