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The issue of marriage equality has intensified in the lead up to Saturday's election with Prime Minister Julia Gillard and her opponent Tony Abbott repeatedly challenged on the issue.

Passed by the provincial legislature in October 2009, the bylaw – which the Governor has refused to sign and officials in Jakarta have asked to be withdrawn – would punish homosexuals with 100 cane lashes.

Fridae.com's Hong Kong Correspondent, Nigel Collett, investigates a current judicial review of Hong Kong’s refusal to allow transgender marriage.

Organisers received thousands of photos and messages of encouragement to Chinese gays and lesbians from members of the public in all corners of China.

Fridae.com’s Hong Kong correspondent, Nigel Collett, investigates the Boys and Girls Clubs Association campaign against the harassment of LGBT students in Hong Kong schools.

Director of the Melbourne Underground Film Festival says he intends to stage a ''public disobedience freedom of speech event'' by screening LA Zombie in defiance of the federal censor.

Costa Rica's top court on Tuesday ruled that a planned public referendum on same-sex civil unions is illegal thus blocking the electoral tribunal from holding a referendum that would have let voters decide if same-sex civil unions should be allowed in the largely Roman Catholic country.

Gay advocacy group People Like Us calls for entries for the second Rascals Prize competition, a S$2,000 biennial award for the best piece of research on the subject of lesbians, gays, bi-sexuals and transgender (LGBT) and Singapore.

First profiled in 2007 by Fridae and again in 2008 for his controversial short film based on an incident in which 12 men in Singapore were arrested for gay cruising, Singaporean director Boo Junfeng will no doubt become a household name as his debut feature Sandcastle hits the big screen this month. 

A federal judge in San Francisco decided on Wednesday that gays and lesbians have a constitutional right to marry, striking down Proposition 8, the voter-approved ballot measure that banned same-sex unions in 2008.