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An online petition signed by over 23,000 people which called on the UK government to grant a posthumous pardon to Alan Turing has been rejected.

A number of support groups such as the Tongqi Association (同妻联合会) and Pink Space Sexuality Research Centre in Beijing now exist to support women who are married to gay men and are struggling to cope.

Rights workers and members of Cambodia's nascent gay community say the case is an example of homophobia as a 20-year-old woman was sentenced to jail based on falsified documents submitted to the court identifying the "victim" as 14 years old.

Rumour has it transsexuals don't usually live past 50, so Abigail Chay, a Singaporean transgender comedian now 52, treasures every second she is given. Fridae.asia's Hong Kong reporter Tony Ed Lo meets Chay and Angus Chan, who play Abigail in the musical that recently ended its run, and finds out how her life story came to inspire a musical staged by a newly founded Hong Kong-based group, a&g production.

Just how far would you go to help out your community? Betu and Maya of Sangini, a Delhi-based lesbian support group, host an average of 20 "guests" – lesbian and bisexual women as well as transmen who find themselves disowned by their families or in danger after coming out – a year, in their South Delhi home and at times risk their own safety to do so.

Former Sex and the City co-star Cynthia Nixon has sparked a backlash after saying that (her) being gay is a choice – a viewpoint that many in the gay community oppose.

Margaret Court, regarded as the greatest female tennis player in Australia and now a Pentecostal minister, has caused a furore with recent comments that gay marriage would legalise abominable sexual practices and gay people could be cured of their orientation.

US network ABC has pulled its cross-dressing comedy Work It which had been plagued by bad reviews and accusations of transphobia.

Last year, the US Armed Forces finally ended Don't Ask Don't Tell, its anti-gay personnel policy. Former Army Lieutenant Dan Choi is one of the leading activists behind the change – but even though that battle's won, he hasn't stopped fighting. Choi speaks to Fridae in an exclusive interview.

The Kuala Lumpur High Court will hear the judicial review application filed by committee members of Malaysia's only sexuality rights festival, which was forcibly cancelled by the police last November, on Feb 21.