A 27-year-old gay man died in a Toronto hospital after he was beaten by a group of men and driven over by the occupants of a black SUV. Friends fear he was targeted because he was gay.
The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission and the Beijing Aizhixing Institute have put out an alert asking the public to call on the Guangzhou Public Security Bureau to stop harassing and discriminating against gay men after three reported incidents this year.
Bored or tired of the same old 'scene'? You could just be entering 'post-gay' territory... as Nicholas Deroose, a Singaporean student in the US, has come to feel as a totally out person who "no longer wants to identify with mainstream gay culture."
Zhou Dan, a lawyer and who helped start a hotline for LGBTs in his native Shanghai in 2003, tells Fridae’s Hong Kong correspondent Nigel Collett about becoming aware of his own sexual orientation in a time where China regarded homosexuality as an ‘illness’ or ‘disorder’ to being a leading voice for gay rights in China.
LGBT activist groups have announced a new campaign "Year of Action for Same-Sex Marriage" in 2010 to be launched with a country-wide march on Nov 28 in major cities.
Homosexual acts are already illegal, but the Anti-Homosexuality Bill proposes the death penalty for those having gay sex with disabled people, under-18s or when the accused is HIV-positive
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