A Gallup Poll survey of global attitudes toward the LGBT community shows that in many Asian countries questions regarding gay and lesbian people were even too sensitive to be asked.
Hong Kong Lesbian & Gay Film Festival (HKLGFF) will be held from Sept 13th to 26th, 2014. It promises to bring the finest films to Hong Kong audiences; raising public awareness on LGBT related issues in the region and beyond.
Taiwan is officially wooing gay tourists in the hope of becoming Asia’s top tourist destination in a region that is often openly hostile towards gay people.
Delhi University has officially accepted transgender men and women for their postgraduate programmers this year and have plans to extend this policy to undergraduate courses as well.
Despite a law that criminalizes same-sex relations and anti-gay prejudices, Singapore has over the years shown that it is becoming more tolerant towards the gay community.
An official from the Indian federal government’s ruling party in India’s gay capital city of Mumbai is advocating for a legal decriminalizing of same-sex relations in the country.
A lesbian couple in Taiwan is petitioning the local courts in an attempt to rectify laws which currently bar one of the women from claiming two of their children as her own.
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