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The New York Times article that mentioned Obama's gay nanny who joined a "transvestite" dance troupe, and which has spawned numerous reposts with headlines like "Obama's nanny was a gay transvestite" could have more accurately used "transgender" or "waria" – an indigenous Indonesian "transgender" person.

A 40-year-old man in Singapore has been fined S$3,000 after being found guilty of performing an obscene act in a public place.

Police raided two illegal gay spas in Malacca, Malaysia last Friday following a tip-off by parents of a foreign student.

In lieu of a pride parade which could not be held due to outstanding debts and other issues, the LGBT community finally took to the beach on Sunday after the event had hit some licensing snags and was postponed due to Typhoon Megi.

Fridae.com's Hong Kong correspondent, Nigel Collett, visits the Queer Straight Alliance's Inclusion Recruitment Conference which saw participation of human resources and diversity managers from Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, Hong Kong Disneyland, Nomura and UBS.

Organisers hailed the Taiwan LGBT Pride last to be the biggest ever gay pride parade in Asia with 30,000 people observing or marching through Taipei streets on Saturday. 

Two openly gay stars Portia de Rossi and Ricky Martin appeared on Oprah this week to talk about their journey towards self-acceptance.

Pioneer gay group People Like Us and other civil society groups in Singapore have submitted reports on the country's human rights track record ahead of Singapore's first review by the UN as part of a periodic review of all UN member states.

Singapore’s first gay anthology places the spotlight on the history of gay writing and gay writers; meet (some of) them at the launch and book reading on October 29.

"What upsets me the most is when parents say that they think their children should sacrifice and change their sexual orientation to save the 'face' of the family," Wu Youjian's message to parents of gay children.