Marcel Wiel, author of Find Love in a Gay Bathhouse, says contrary to popular belief one can meet quality husband material as the bathhouse is a good place to observe men at 'play', and provides tips on how to spot Mr Right in a pool of sexual contacts and to save oneself 'a lot of time and energy' by weeding out the wrong guys.
Fridae speaks with Marcel Wiel, a UK journalist and author of Find Love in a Gay Bathhouse, who says his meeting his husband in the steam room of a 24-hour bathhouse provided the impetus to publish the book and that a bathhouse is really not as hopeless a place to meet quality husband material as often thought.
Fridae speaks with Tom Tan of gCircuit to find out what is in store for partygoers at the Song Kran 5 party which coincides with the widely celebrated traditional 'water festival'.
Some 193 young man in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia have reportedly fallen prey to the same man with at least 100 saying they had sex with him before they were cheated of money, laptops and other items.
While figures show a sharp decline in HIV diagnoses for heterosexual New Zealanders in 2010, it could well "be the worst year on record for our gay men's communities" says the New Zealand AIDS Foundation.
Beacon of tolerance or 'parade of live porn', the 34th Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras 2011 theme of 'say something' got the message across on same-sex marriage. But were politicians listening? Justin Ellis reports from Sydney. Photos by Nat Cagilaba.
With the 34th annual Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras upon the city this Saturday, Senthorun Raj, a policy and development co-ordinator at the Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby, asks if the event is still relevant.
Over 200 participants from 22 Asia-Pacific countries gathered in Bangkok for a historic dialogue hosted by the Global Commission on HIV and the Law. As of now, 90 percent of countries in the Asia-Pacific region still have laws and practices that obstruct the rights of people living with HIV and those at higher risk of HIV exposure.
Fridae.com's Hong Kong correspondent, Nigel Collett, examines Leo Burnett's recent survey of the Hong Kong gay community's spending power and attitudes about being (openly) gay.
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