The Internet was abuzz over the weekend with reports that Google has launched a worldwide push to legalise same-sex marriage but it has since clarified that it is not the case, a Google spokesperson told Fridae on Monday.
Ismaili Queers: Advocates for Pluralism, a community group of LGBT-identified Shia Ismaili Muslims, proudly marched as a solo contingent for the first time at the Toronto pride parade on Jul 1.
Human rights activists are demanding an investigation into the case involving athlete Pinki Pramanik, who was arrested on charges of rape and facing claims she is a man, then held in a male prison ward and filmed in a video while undergoing a gender determination test that later went viral.
Long known to be in the "glass closet" – a phrase used for a person who is known to be gay but is not out publicly, CNN anchor Anderson Cooper has confirmed this week that he is gay.
It is a record turnout for Pink Dot, the only public rally to advocate LGBT acceptance in Singapore, and which has even inspired similar events around the world. Watch the video here.
Some 10,000 or more Singaporeans are expected to join the Pink Dot rally on Sat, June 30 to show their support for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in Singapore but for some of us, it may not be easy or possible to be there...
Queensland's Liberal National Party government have not only voted to downgrade civil partnerships to “registered relationships”; same-sex couples and singles will also be denied the right to have a child by surrogacy under plans flagged by the state government.
Alex Au, a Singapore gay activist, social commentator and former Fridae columnist, has been awarded the Humanist of the Year 2012 by the Humanist Society (Singapore) for being a "vocal defender of Singapore’s secularism and an outspoken critic of religious extremism, pseudoscientific institutions and creationism."
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