Fridae

Karen Lee, whose autobiography is the first to be published by a gay person in Singapore, says although she's back in her home country after being away for 14 years, she's "bound to flock to another country with her partner in a few years."

Fridae catches up with Mr Singapore 2009 aka Chan Wai Teik who’s currently back in Singapore between photography assignments in Shanghai, China to talk about bodybuilding and winning the coveted title at the National Bodybuilding and Fitness Championships in May.

Leona Lo, possibly Singapore’s best known transsexual, will take to the stage from Aug 6-8 to tell her story in the controversially titled Ah Kua Show.

Singaporean artist Aiman Hakim presents his first solo exhibition For Ages 4 and Up which opens on Thursday as part of Singapore’s gay pride season.

Fridae catches up with San Francisco-based DJ Tye before he heads to Singapore’s infamous Orchard Towers to play at the “Lai Liao, Ho Liao – 4 floors of ‘Hos!” party on Aug 1.

Fridae’s Hong Kong correspondent Nigel Collett meets with one of the city’s most prominent gay activists, Kenneth Cheung Kam-hung, who became active in gay and HIV/AIDS activism after being diagnosed with AIDS just months after his A-level exams.

Nigel Collett talks to Hong Kong’s most heard gay voice, ‘We are family’ presenter Brian Leung Siu Fai about his weekly radio show.

Fridae welcomes Jan Wijngaarden, who will be writing a new column about HIV and other health concerns gay men and MSM (men who have sex with men) face.

Fridae speaks with Filipino director Auraeus Solito whose latest film Boy, which is meant to have its world premiere in Singapore this weekend, has been disallowed for "normalising homosexuality."

Singapore's drag comedian Kumar confesses all in his new stand-up performance, Kumar: Stripped Bare and Standing Up, playing from 19 to 21 March 2009.