Said to be the largest gay rights rally in the US capital in the last decade, it was attended by activists and celebrities including Gilbert Baker who created the gay rainbow flag in 1978, Sex and the City star and out lesbian Cynthia Nixon, Oscar winner Dustin Lance Black, Lt. Dan Choi and Lady Gaga.
Stephen Gately, of the hugely successful pop group Boyzone, who made headlines when he came out as gay a decade ago, has died while on vacation with his partner in Spain.
The Council for Global Equality's report outlines steps that U.S. corporations can take to protect their LGBT employees and promote fair workplace policies across all of their facilities around the world; and in some cases may require corporate efforts to change discriminatory local laws that interfere with business.
Glen Goei of Forever Fever fame is back with The Blue Mansion after an 11-year hiatus from filmmaking. He tells Fridae what inspired the quirky murder mystery film which will have its world premiere at the Pusan International Film Festival on Oct 10, and what he considers worse than death.
Gayradio.hk co-founders Henry Lam and Samuel Wong - partners on the air and in life - talk to Fridae’s Hong Kong correspondent, Nigel Collett, about setting up the station five years ago and their first online video series called 99 Days.
In an interview with The Edge Malaysia, Pang Khee Teik, co-organiser of Seksualiti Merdeka, confesses that he's most afraid of gay men - gay men who have given up exercising their rights to express their sexuality, and have urged others to do the same.
Poet, playwright and winner of the Singapore Literature Prize last year for his poetry anthology Last Boy, Ng Yi-Sheng has been dropped by the Ministry of Education as a mentor in the Creative Arts Programme one month into his mentorship.
The politicisation of Islam is one of the main reasons why gays are increasingly persecuted in Islamic countries and secular ones such as Egypt or Morocco. In Iran, the persecution of gays has further led to a boom in demand for sex-change operations and where more operations are performed than any other country in the world besides Thailand.
Fridae.com's Hong Kong correspondent, Nigel Collett, interviews Greg Crandall, 'Admiral' of Hong Kong's gay fleet which is scheduled to set sail the day before Hong Kong Pride, on Oct 31.
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