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Dr Kua Kia Soong, director of SUARAM or Suara Rakyat Malaysia (Voice of the Malaysian People), issued a press statement calling on "progressive Malaysians, political parties and organisations to stand up for the rights of all LGBT and the abolition of our outdated sodomy laws."

Twenty-six year old Evan Low is believed to be the United States' youngest openly gay mayor and also one of the youngest Asian American mayors in the country.

Uganda’s “Kill the gays” bill is said to be inspired by an American ex-gay activist and author of Coming Out Straight who claims he has helped thousands of gays “become” straight.

Hong Kong’s first Mr Gay pageant attracted six brave men – four local, a Filipino and an American – who not only had to show their wares in swim, sports and formal wear; and had to charm the judges and the crowd. 

Then a history and economics major, Jeff Sheng changed his mind about going to law school after taking courses with some of the film and photography professors at Harvard and realising that media and activist art could be used to affect change in society. 

Alex Au meets with Argentinian activist Marcelo Ferreyra and finds out more about the fight for same-sex marriage in Buenos Aires, where a court in the Argentinian capital made a precedent-setting decision to affirm a gay couple's right to be married under the city’s laws. "This is a fruit of a long period of organising and campaigning, news of which has rarely come to Asia," Au noted.

The sell out event will see the premiere of Anniversary, a specially commissioned short film by celebrated filmmaker Royston Tan and writer Alfian Sa'at, and an auction of specially conceptualised artwork by fashion photographers Chuando and Frey.

Fridae.com’s Hong Kong correspondent, Nigel Collett, talks to Sunil Babu Pant, MP, founder of Nepal’s Blue Diamond Society and pioneer of the development of Nepal’s new human rights.

PositiveVoices.Net will be launched in mid-2010 to provide a safe haven for the HIV-positive gay men and other MSM on the internet.

For the fifth year running, Fridae has been conferred an award - the highest level of recognition awarded to a gay company - for its support and contribution to Singapore's arts scene by the National Arts Council.