Fridae.com's Hong Kong correspondent, Nigel Collett, meets actor, singer and dramatist Pichead Amornsomboom whose musical theatre Mr. Diva's Masterclass will be performed in Hong Kong from 20-22 May.
Back from a brief hiatus after donating half his liver to his father last year, Singapore DJ Johnson Ong aka DJ Big Kid is headed for the Paradise Festival in Hawaii on May 13 followed by gigs in Beijing and Shanghai the same month.
Singapore will undergo its first Universal Periodic Review (UPR) – the only universal mechanism that reviews the human rights situation in all 192 UN Member States once every four years – on 6 May 2011. Fridae’s legal columnist George Hwang explains the process in relation to Singapore’s gay sex laws.
The issue of sexual orientation is being used time and time again for political gain as two recent cases in Singapore and Taiwan have shown. But why does sex and sexual orientation hold so much power in the minds of the public?
While it might be generally accepted that coming out not only contributes to an individual's sense of well-being but also serves a public good, Charles Tan observes that some LGBT activists are appearing to advocate the reverse when it comes to the issue of outing politicians.
Pakistan's Supreme Court also recommended that transgenders be allocated a certain number of government jobs and specifically as tax collectors to utilise their "special skills".
Should politicians have to declare their sexual orientation, just as they have to declare their assets? Fan Yun, an associate professor of sociology at National Taiwan University, discusses the issue after an opposition leader and hopeful in Taiwan's 2012 presidential election was asked to clarify her sexual orientation.
Taiga Ishikawa has become the first openly gay politician in Japan to win an election. In an interview with the Japan Times published last month, he says he hopes to enact a partnership ordinance that would allow unmarried couples regardless of gender to have equal rights as married couples.
What has been brewing over two weeks on the internet has now boiled over onto the cover pages of the two most widely circulated English language newspapers in Singapore today.
Singapore's most anticipated public rally to support the freedom of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people (LGBT) to love is back for the third year on June 18.
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