Prominent Singapore gay activist and social commentator Alex Au draws on two recent news stories and cautions against over-focusing on the health benefits and/or the power of the pink dollar in arguing for the repeal of gay sex laws.
"I think it is important for it to be said here in Singapore that there are gay people everywhere and if suddenly all them stood up and said: 'This is me. It's like left-handedness, it's no big deal. Get over it. Have an aspirin. Have a lie down. You'll feel better tomorrow.' And things will be different." – The Hon. Michael Kirby
The "Rip & Roll" safe sex campaign posters which feature a real-life gay male couple in an embrace will be reinstated across Brisbane bus shelters after it became clear the complaints were part of a concerted campaign by the Australian Christian Lobby.
Thousands in Oregon, Portland turned up at the location where two gay men who were apparently attacked for holding hands to show their solidarity and protest against anti-LGBT violence.
Nigel Collett reviews Island of Demons, a fictional account of the life of Walter Spies, a gay Russian-born German artist, choreographer, musician and natural historian, who moved to Yogyakarta and later Bali where he had left a profound influence on local painters and the evolution of the modern ketjak dance before he was arrested as part of a crackdown on homosexuals in 1938.
Don't use homo/trans-phobic slurs or partake in homo/trans-phobic jokes. Respect people's right to privacy. Champion change in homophobic and transphobic environments. Read the 29 ideas put forth by participants at the "29 WAYS Towards an LGBTIQ-Friendly Malaysia" event held yesterday.
Prominent gay rights activists, Americans Dan Choi and Andy Thayer, and France's Louis-George Tin, were among the dozens arrested for trying to hold two unauthorized gay-rights demonstrations in the Russian capital on Saturday.
In conjunction with "29 Ways: Towards an LGBTIQ-Friendly Malaysia" to held 29 May in Kuala Lumpur, Nur Hidayah, a Malaysian lawyer, shares how becoming close friends with her lesbian college roommate helped her reconsider and renew her childhood friendship with a gay male friend.
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