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Tanwarin Sukkapisit says her latest film about a transgender 'father' of two children has been banned, twice, because it's a serious film – as transgender females on Thai television are widely considered acceptable but only for laughs.

This year's march is reportedly the largest in Manila since the city held the very first LGBT pride march in Asia in 1994.

The US Senate voted 65-31 on Saturday to end the 17-year-old "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy which bars gays and lesbians from serving openly in the armed forces.

About 2,000 people marched in Delhi on Sunday, the first such event since male-to-male sex was legalised last year.

Make no mistake: This is not a place to celebrate sexuality. This is a place for survival.

Police raided two illegal gay spas in Malacca, Malaysia last Friday following a tip-off by parents of a foreign student.

"What upsets me the most is when parents say that they think their children should sacrifice and change their sexual orientation to save the 'face' of the family," Wu Youjian's message to parents of gay children.

US President Barack Obama said Thursday that he believed being gay or transsexual was not a lifestyle choice but genetically determined; his administration however supports the military in pressing on with its 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' policy despite having consistently argued against the ban.

Nine members of a street gang grabbed two 17-year-old boys and lured a 30-year-old man, who is romantically linked to the two teens, to an abandoned house where they brutally tortured and sexually abused their victims.

Thousands of Serbian riot police clashed repeatedly with far-right extremists determined to disrupt the gay pride parade on Sunday in Belgrade – the first since 2001. Reports say more than 100 people, mostly police, were injured, with another 100 arrested.