Senior executives of 19 global financial services firms gathered last Thursday at Out on the Street Asia, the region's first LGBT workplace summit, to share their thoughts on LGBT diversity. Fridae's Hong Kong correspondent Nigel Collett reports.
Renown Chinese sexologist Zhang Beichuan, whose latest survey found that 80 percent of the women in marriages with gay men said they had been "seriously harmed", has called for gay men not to be bound to traditional marriage values.
A ruling party lawmaker caused a stir in parliament yesterday when he urged the government to take measures to curb “social problems” including what he said was a move made by a group of Malaysian NGOs to promote LGBT rights at the United Nations.
The Vienna Tourist Board and visitBerlin will launch a first-of-its-kind bid to attract Asian LGBT travelers at ITB Asia, a trade show for the Asian travel market, to be held in Singapore from Oct 23-25.
Michael Morrill, an American who has been living in Asia for 10 years, was announced as the winner of the 2013 Mr Gay Hong Kong competition held at Armani Prive on Saturday night.
English actor Stephen Fry has spent the last two years travelling the world, interviewing LGBT people and challenging those who radically oppose the acceptance – or even the existence – of LGBT people.
Glow Phuket 2013 is reportedly one of the first gay events to receive sponsorship from the Tourism Authority of Thailand, according to a local newspaper.
"I'm so sorry to be so late in my understanding... Today, I'm an out of the closet Christian that supports homosexuality... I pray and hope you would somehow read about my apology letter to you and give me another chance as a friend," writes a Christian woman – originally from Singapore – to her long-lost gay friend whom she had rejected 12 years ago.
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