Doug Sanders spent four weeks in Myanmar in January and February. There are changes: More tourists, easier to change money but still only a few places where credit cards are taken. And is there a gay scene, he reports.
Audiences these days have come to expect "positive" gay-themed films from Thai filmmakers but Thai director-screenwriter Kongdej Jaturanrasamee, who recently screened his latest work P-047 at the Southeast Asian Film Festival in Singapore, says his country's filmmakers often aim for mainstream success by turning their gay and kathoey characters into targets for comedy.
The Human Rights Council's first-ever formal UN inter-governmental debate on violence and discrimination against LGBT people on March 7 was marked by the walk out by many representatives from the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, the Arab group and the African group.
The creators of the popular 2010 Asian Pacific Male Calendar has teamed up with Filipino-American director RD Alba to create a new reality show based on their behind-the-scenes experiences of creating the calendar that featured 12 sexy Asian American men to raise funds for charity and have just completed filming a reality TV pilot.
Having had its world premiere at the recent Berlin Film Festival, Children of Srikandi – the first film to document the lives of queer women in Indonesia – will likely be screened at a LGBT film festival near you this year. Fridae speaks with co-producers Laura Coppens and Angelika Levi, and co-director Yulia Dwi Andriyanti about crowdfunding and the challenges facing queer women in Indonesia today.
It's easy to think of Thailand as being very LGBT-friendly with its numerous LGBT-oriented venues, and transgender females and cross-dressers who are regularly seen on TV soap operas and in public but LGBTs have not assimilated well into Thai society, writes a columnist in the Bangkok Post.
Seksualiti Merdeka’s leave of application to pursue a judicial review against a police ban of its programme in 2011 has been rejected by the Kuala Lumpur High Court today.
Several Internet service providers and mobile phone operators in Indonesia have banned the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) website for containing "pornography." Are any LGBT websites banned in your country?
The Home Ministry on Thursday distanced itself from its court representative’s statement that homosexuality is “immoral” and clarified that it has decided not to challenge the Delhi High Court's 2009 decision to decriminalise homosexuality.
India's government has told the Supreme Court that homosexuality is immoral, "against nature and spreads diseases"; and urged the court to reverse a 2009 landmark decision by the Delhi High Court which decriminalised gay sex.
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