Fridae

Fridae.com's Hong Kong correspondent Nigel Collett investigates this year's competition to be held Nov 26 at Hyde club. 

Fridae.com's Hong Kong correspondent, Nigel Collett, meets Joe Lam, Festival Director and the publisher of Hong Kong's Dim Sum magazine.

The amendment narrowly passed 79-70 reversing the 2008 declaration that included an explicit reference to killings committed because of the victims' sexual orientation. IGLHRC reports.

Founder of Hong Kong gay club, Volume, Evan Steer (aka DJ Stonedog) launches Asia's first gay record label, and talks to Fridae.com's correspondent, Nigel Collett.

Make no mistake: This is not a place to celebrate sexuality. This is a place for survival.

In a speech hailed as "amazing" and "inspiring", a 14-year-old gay student told a school board that he was bullied by classmates and had considered suicide when he was 9, and defended a teacher who was temporarily suspended for taking two students to task for their racist and anti-gay remarks.

Positive Voices is a new ongoing series in which we will feature Asian LGBT individuals who are HIV-positive and are living positively.

A lawyer in Singapore who intends to challenge the constitutionality of Section 377A may be unable to do so if the challenge is dismissed on the basis that the charge brought against his client has been amended. Alex Au considers the issues.

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.