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.
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.
A debate is heating up in South Korea over homosexuality in the military as the country's National Human Rights Commission declares the current military code that imposes a one year jail term to be a violation of soldiers' rights.
Navanethem Pillay, the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights, says it's time society spoke up against homophobia and hates crimes, and calls for homosexuality to be decriminalised.
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