Todd Sears, founder of the first Wall Street LGBT leadership organisation Out on the Street, was in Hong Kong last month. Fridae's Hong Kong Correspondent, Nigel Collett, finds out more about the first Asian Summit scheduled for 24 October this year.
With an estimated record turn out of 21,000, Singapore's Pink Dot rally to support the acceptance of LGBTs has become the second largest gay-affirmative event in Asia in five years, behind the annual Taiwan Pride Parade in Taipei. Watch the official video here.
Dr Vincent Wijeysingha, an opposition politician in Singapore, has come out as gay in a Facebook post today; making him the first openly gay politician in the country.
The US Supreme Court on Wednesday handed two major victories to advocates of same-sex marriage in the US, ruling that same-sex couples should get the same federal benefits as heterosexual couples and clearing the way for the resumption of same-sex marriages in California.
The European Union's 27 foreign affairs ministers on June 24 adopted a "ground-breaking" global policy which instructs EU diplomats around the world to defend the human rights of LGBTI people.
A new low-budget comedy continues the Thai film world's love affair with Tom lesbians, and non-lady-boy gay men. There is only one kathoey character in the film, reports Doug Sanders from Bangkok, a departure from the standard Thai queer comedies.
Japan's southernmost prefecture will be having their own Pink Dot event on July 14, in support of LGBTs. Co-organiser Hideki Sunagawa tells Fridae guest writer in Okinawa, Muneerah Bee, how he came to be inspired to organise the event in his home city.
The Hong Kong government has established a new body to replace its predecessor the Sexual Minorities Forum (SMF) which collapsed in March this year after a mass withdrawal by LGBT groups. Fridae's Hong Kong correspondent Nigel Collett has an in-depth report of the latest developments.
Speaking at Vietnam's first National LGBT Community Dialogue, UNDP Country Director Louise Chamberlain acknowledged the efforts of the Vietnamese government to address the struggles of LGBT citizens and their parents, family and friends.
Millions of ethnic Chinese around the world today honour the memory of poet Qu Yuan who is said to have sacrificed himself for his country but academics have proferred another reason for Qu Yuan's suicide than his supposed love for the nation.
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