EM Forster never wrote a novel after A Passage To India because his first homosexual experience at the age of 38 sapped his creativity, according to a new biography.
Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul wins the top prize at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival with his sixth film, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, which was described by Tim Burton, head of the jury, as being a "beautiful strange dream" and "full of surprises."
The British Embassy and Queer Comrades, a Beijing-based LGBT awareness group, marked International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia with an event and debut of a short documentary, The Story of Mr Gay China, following the cancellation of China's first gay beauty pageant.
Out lesbian actress and Sex and the City star Cynthia Nixon tells a US gay magazine about how her relationship with her partner who is her first girlfriend started, coming out under the media glare and their life together now.
Just a month after crashing the ILGA Asia conference in Surabaya, members of the Islam Defenders Front (FPI) forced their way past police and stormed a human rights training program intended for transgender individuals at a hotel in Depok, West Java last Friday.
Ang Ladlad, the first gay political party in Asia vying for a seat in Congress, has thrown its support to Liberal Party standard bearer Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino and Puwersa ng Masasang Pilipino vice presidential candidate and Makati City Mayor Jejomar Binay.
In what has been described a "rare" case, Malaysia's New Straits Times reported that a 38-year-old Malaysian transsexual was recently given refugee status in Australia as only 12 transsexuals were given asylum in Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Canada between 1994 and 2008.
A 62-year-old gay man died 18 days after being brutally attacked by two drunken teenage girls who hurled homophobic abuse at him after being knocked to the ground by their male friend during the attack in Trafalgar Square, a court heard.
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