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Hsiao Bi-Khim, a Taiwan legislator who left office last week, recounts her role in sponsoring a same-sex marriage bill in 2006 and explains why the LGBT community needs to get involved politically in an exclusive interview with Fridae's Philip Hwang.

Fridae talks to Sydney photographer/writer/performer William Yang, currently featured in the gay Asian photography exhibition Men Like Me at Melbourne's Midsummer Festival.

Fridae interviews Booker Prize-nominated Malaysian writer Tan Twan Eng on his first novel, The Gift of Rain.

Internationally acclaimed DJ and co-founder of the legendary Sound Factory dance club in NYC Junior Vasquez will be making his first ever appearance in Singapore this weekend at Play and shortly after in Tokyo at Ageha. He tells Fridae readers in an exclusive interview about his beginnings and what punters should expect.

Singapore lesbian playwright Ovidia Yu talks about her hard-hitting play, Hitting (on) Women, to be staged by Action Theatre, 10-19 August 2007.

Neil Tennant, the openly gay vocalist half of the British synthpop duo, talks to Fridae about pop music, politics, and why they wrote songs to warn of the dangers of policies propagating fear and hatred. A Fridae Exclusive!

You might know him better as Magneto in X-Men or Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings, but Sir Ian McKellen (or Serena, as he once nicknamed himself) also holds a proud legacy as a gay rights campaigner in the UK and abroad. Currently touring with the Royal Shakespeare Company in a stage production of Shakespeare's King Lear and Anton Chekhov's The Seagull in Singapore, Sir Ian stops for a while to speak to Fridae about acting and activism. A Fridae exclusive.

Ordained as a pastor at the Metropolitan Community Church in New York in May, Oyoung Wenfeng, an award-winning Malaysian journalist and columnist, tells Fridae about coming out as a gay man and his plans to set up an all-inclusive church in Malaysia in 2010.

No stranger to the lesbian community in Singapore, Iris Judotter has become the first out lesbian to launch an album. Catch her at The Arts House this Saturday singing original songs from her self-produced and released debut album, The Importance of Being!

Fridae speaks to Singaporean lesbian artist Genevieve Chua, whose first solo exhibition, As Brutal As - which explores themes of psychological horror and sexuality - opens this Friday.