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The US embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan reportedly held a LGBT Pride Celebration ceremony on June 26 which has since drew the ire of conservative Islamic groups with one deeming the event the second most dangerous attack by the US against Pakistan, following missiles fired from unmanned drones. 

An upcoming play by beloved Singapore songwriter Dick Lee exposes the seamy world of male beauty pageants. Fridae chats with the hunky actors playing the contestants: Eli Tee, Kaeng Chan and Rodney Oliveiro.

Thirteen US Democratic senators released a video on Wednesday morning as part of the online "It Gets Better" video campaign, aimed at preventing suicide among LGBT youths. 

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is expected to appoint a senior coordinator for sexual orientation and gender identity who will be responsible for advising the USAID administrator on this agenda.

Hundreds of members of Chennai's LGBT community and their allies including staffers from the German and US foreign office marched in the southern Indian city on Sunday morning.

New York, the the birthplace of the gay and lesbian rights movement in the United States, has become the sixth and the most populous US state to legalise same-sex marriage.

Fridae's Hong Kong correspondent Nigel Collett examines the furore surrounding the Hong Kong Government's appointment of a reparative therapist advocate to train its social welfare staff.

The 5th Beijing Queer Film Festival was held from June 15-19 at different locations after the festival, which was scheduled to take place at an undisclosed location in the capital's Xicheng District, was forced to be cancelled.

Community advocacy organisation GetUp and Australian Marriage Equality (AME) have outbid high-power business executives to win an online charity auction and will send three same-sex couples to discuss same-sex marriage with PM Julia Gillard over dinner.  

An estimated 10,000 people turned up at Hong Lim Park on Saturday as a show of their acceptance of LGBTs in Singapore, and support for inclusiveness, diversity and the freedom to love.