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Most of the conference's participants left their hotel the same night after dozens of protesters from hardline Islamic groups staked out the hotel and conference venue for hours on Friday. Sylvia Tan reports from Surabaya.  

Check out Fairy Tales, an art exhibition that tells the story of a gay couple in Singapore through words and paintings.

The 4th ILGA-Asia Conference to be held in Surabaya, Indonesia this weekend has not been given the go-ahead by the police.

Fridae.com’s Hong Kong correspondent Nigel Collett meets Reggie Ho, Chairman of Hong Kong’s Gay Helpline Service, HORIZONS – one of the oldest LGBT organisations in the territory.

Officials say new censorship guidelines will allow greater freedom of expression for film-makers but kissing, undressing and obscene scenes will still be banned.

Lt. Dan Choi, a DADT activist and Iraq combat veteran who faces being discharged from the Army for being openly gay, was arrested last week after handcuffing himself to the White House fence in protest of Don't Ask, Don't Tell. He tells Newsweek he feels “so betrayed” by the largest gay rights advocacy group in the US.

A common opinion is that gay relationships are less permanent than straight ones... but do or should we aspire towards having committed lifelong relationships? Openly gay Singaporean man Otto Fong shares his views in response to a recent article on Time.com.

Anti-gay proponents from US Christian evangelicals Revs. Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson to Singapore’s Pastor Rony Tan have long linked same-sex marriage to bestiality, incest and polygamy... and now former Republican Representative for Arizona JD Hayworth.

The police in Penang have accused local authorities of inaction resulting in the state becoming a gay sex services hub.

Shanghai has a flourishing gay scene with an emergence of new bars, clubs and social groups although a good number of the men who participate are married to women, reports AFP.