A federal appeals court in New York became the latest to strike down a portion of the Defense of Marriage Act, a federal law which defines marriage as being exclusively between a man and a woman.
With gay and lesbian travel being one of the fastest growing market segments in the industry, ITB Asia, Asia's largest travel trade show, has for the first time set up a "Pink Corner" at the 3-day event in Singapore.
Following the death of his Filipino boyfriend, Mikee, Hong Kong author and gay activist Anshuman Das detailed how he had coped with his loss, and how his boyfriend's death had transformed and inspired his life in his latest book Always Forever.
A Malaysian High Court has dismissed an application by four transgender women who had sought to have an Islamic law that bars Muslim men from wearing women's clothes reviewed.
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.