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A Taiwanese broadcaster LS Time has been fined NT$300,000 (US$10,255) for broadcasting a film that featured a scene that showed two women kissing, the China Times and Liberty Times reported.

In a first of its kind case to be reported, an employee of a bus company in Singapore will face disciplinary action after using a gay slur on a female passenger in public.

The 11th annual Q! Film Festival, which started last Friday and will run until Oct 6, will only release the screening schedules on a daily basis due to threats from extremists and religious groups.

California will be the first state in the US to ban "reparative therapy" or "conversion therapy" – a practice that was been roundly discredited by mainstream mental health organisations – for gay teens.

Gigi Chao says in an interview that she's a "really lucky girl to have such a loving daddy" and that his views is not based on his own non-acceptance but society's non-acceptance of same-sex couples.

Fridae's Hong Kong Correspondent Nigel Collett speaks to Pink Season Coordinator Tay Her Lim and gives readers a preview of the events happening in conjunction with the 2nd annual Pink Season in Hong Kong.

Over 1,000 people participated in three “flash mob” dance events held simultaneously in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and Da Nang on Sunday afternoon to increase the visibility of the LGBT community.

Call Me Kuchu, a powerful documentary about the struggle against Uganda’s "Kill the Gays bill" and which follows several LGBT activists including David Kato before he was murdered in 2011, will be screened at the Freedom Film Festival that runs this weekend in Petaling Jaya (Selangor), Penang on Oct 6 and Singapore on Oct 28.

After days of heated debate that saw one Liberal Party senator resign after linking same-sex marriage to bestiality, the bill was defeated with 42 MPs supporting the passage of the bill and 98 MPs against.

A new UN report Born Free and Equal presents the UN's new view that LGBT Rights are part of international human rights law. The report tells many grim stories of abuse – but equally, there are appealing pictures of gay parades and rainbow flags. Douglas Sanders reports.