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ShanghaiPRIDE, will, besides its annual parties, organize activities ranging from debates promoting equal rights, LGBT community building, a film and theater festival and a drive to collect money for HIV-related charities.

The Sultan of Brunei of has decreed into law the strict Islamic Sharia penal code that will eventually lead to death by stoning for crimes of a sexual nature, including those of same-sex relations.

Some of the less-published (yet no less interesting) news events from April in Asia.

The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights April 30 has launched a Bollywood-style  music video to promote its Free & Equal campaign for LGBT people.

A South Korean rights organization is to showcase photos about the difficulty lesbians, gays, bisexual and transgender people face growing up so as to  draw attention of the public and policy makers against homophobia and discrimination in society.

Japan’s first lady has not only taken part in the annual Tokyo gay parade but gone on to write about equality and anti-gay discrimination on her Facebook page.

The school, the first of its kind in the world’s most Muslim populated country, was closed when its f...

A North Korean state news agency has resorted to anti-gay abuse of a UN official for criticizing the communist state's human rights record.

Brunei's new law mandating the stoning of gay people has been officially delayed.

Come May, Vietnam’s National Assembly will have concluded two years of deliberation on amendments to the Law on Marriage and Family and in all likelihood end its current ban on marriage between same-sex couples.