Fridae’s drag queen-in-training, Alvin Jenny Talia Tan, twirls his way to Taiwan to find out more about the Taiwanese drag scene (yes, there’s one) from the magnificent Magnolia La Manga!
Nigel Collett reviews Chinese Male Homosexualities: Memba, Tongzhi and Golden Boy by Travis S. K. Kong which explores masculinities and homosexualities amongst Chinese gay men, and provides a sociological account of masculinity, desire, sexuality, identity and citizenship in contemporary Chinese societies in Hong Kong, Mainland China and London.
'Traitor', 'hypocrite', 'married to the mob'. Openly lesbian Climate Change Minister Penny Wong came under fire from the gay community and commentators in the media after towing the Labor line that only men and women should be allowed to marry.
Staged in Singapore last August, Leona Lo's Ah Kua Show will make its debut outside her home country at the New York International Fringe Festival this month.
The LGBT festival will coincide with Gai Jatra, an age-old festival which commemorates those who have died in the past year and where participants dress up in outlandish costumes during a street possession.
Singapore's sixth gay pride season announces it's line-up, with the mainstay Pink Picnic at the Botanical Gardens coinciding with the country's National Day on Aug 9.
The demand for universal recognition of human rights took the front seat at the world’s largest HIV conference where “Treatment 2.0” and “harm reduction” were the buzzwords. Comference organisers also called on governments to adopt harm reduction codes in place of continued criminalisation of drug-use. Fridae's Laurindo Garcia delivers a wrap-up report from Vienna.
The Asia Internet MSM Sex Survey 2010 preliminary report which focuses on cross-country comparison was released at the Vienna AIDS conference on 22 July. The study is one of the largest of its kind in the world with 13,882 respondents. A more detailed analysis on risk factors will follow in a few months.
A decline in HIV prevalence among the general population has been achieved through improvements to HIV prevention and treatment services for gay men, and other men-who-have-sex-with-men (MSM). Fridae's Laurindo Garcia reports from Vienna.
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