Contrary to earlier reports that Uganda lawmakers have removed the death penalty clause from the proposed anti-gay bill, the country's parliament’s Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee has in fact recommended passage of the proposed bill, including retaining the death penalty for “aggravated homosexuality,” Human Rights Watch said in its latest statement today.
When queried by France, UK, and other countries, the Singapore delegate at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva reiterates that the Singapore police will not take action "against consenting adult males... unless their conduct breaks other laws, for instance laws against indecent public behaviour or paedophilia."
Uganda's controversial 'kill the gays' bill could be voted on this week by lawmakers since it was proposed about 18 months ago, say NGOs and media reports.
Believed to be the first case here of its kind in Singapore, a 22-year-old woman has been convicted and sentenced to 24 months' probation and 150 hours of community service for performing sexual acts on an underage girl with whom she was having a relationship with.
Cambodia's third annual pride festival is underway from today till May 17, scheduled to coincide with the International Day Against Homophobia (IDAHO).
31 LGBT groups from 8 Southeast Asian countries tell their governments: LGBTs being treated as "criminals" and "second class citizens" is not "acceptable", and the "recognition, promotion, and protection of LGBTIQ rights is long overdue".
Larry Kramer, a prominent 76-year-old American playwright, author, public health advocate, and LGBT rights activist, said in an interview that he sees himself as a gay person before anything else and wonders why some (gay) people today do not identify themselves as gay.
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.
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