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This year's march is reportedly the largest in Manila since the city held the very first LGBT pride march in Asia in 1994.

Azwan Ismail’s video clip on YouTube has attracted over 140,000 views and a flurry of discussions online – a majority of which are negative including online death threats – since it was launched last Wednesday. Two new videos released this week features university student Kavidha and Pastor Joe Pang.

The US Senate voted 65-31 on Saturday to end the 17-year-old "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy which bars gays and lesbians from serving openly in the armed forces.

The 25th world conference of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA) met in Sao Paulo, Brazil, December 4-9. Douglas Sanders reports.

Positive Voices is an ongoing series featuring Asian LGBT individuals who are HIV-positive and are living positively.

Tan Eng Hong was fined S$3,000 by a district court for performing fellatio on another man in a public toilet.

Seksualiti Merdeka's second video in a series of 15 features Azwan Ismail, an engineer, poet, writer and editor of LGBT anthology Orang Macam Kita who shares that although it had taken him a long time to come to terms with his sexuality, he can now say "Saya gay, saya OK. (I’m gay, I’m OK.)"

Organisers say a recent double suicide case involving two lesbian students and another which occurred 16 years ago highlight the inadequacies of Taiwan’s gender diversity education, and calls on the government to address the issue not just through legislation or school-based policies but public education campaigns.

The Gay Men's Health Crisis in New York and Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) are demanding the video be withdrawn.

The graphic video has received scathing reviews for its "horror movie trailer-style" voice-over, "1980s-style scare tactics" and a graphic image of anal cancer – similar to those seen on cigarette cartons meant to scare smokers.