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Is homophobia a real problem in the African Commonwealth, thus contradicting the high human-rights standards the association is supposed to uphold?

Gay and lesbian filmmakers honoured at Singapore's inaugural Short Film Awards.

'Family values' is a term much bandied about by anti-gay 'pro-family' groups who accuse gays of being anti-family, Aniruddh Vasudevan, director of the Shakti Resource Center, Chennai shares a conversation he recently had with his parents in a local newspaper.

The New York Times is reporting that a study, to be released in February, has shown that monogamy is not a central feature for many gay male couples; and some argue that as a result, they have “stronger, longer-lasting and more honest relationships."

The film, which promises to be Bollywood's boldest portrayal of a serious and explicitly sexual relationship between two men, is set to test tolerance in Indian society after the Delhi High Court last year legalised same-sex sexual relations.

Is it generally true that gay male couples place less emphasis on sexual exclusivity than opposite sex couples?

Two transgender daddies are expecting a baby boy in February.

Fridae.com’s Hong Kong correspondent, Nigel Collett hikes into Hong Kong’s hidden countryside with Hiketilla, gay hiking group.

A man who brought the first constitutional challenge against the ban on sodomy in Malaysia and who was appealing against his conviction of 60 years in jail and 22 strokes of rotan for sodomising a 14-year-old male lost his appeal.

Chiangmai's Mplus, a community-based men's sexual health organisation, last year launched four animated videos for the four communities they are trying to reach: young MSM, transgenders, Thai and migrant male sex workers and 'hidden MSM'.