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In a historic and eagerly anticipated judgment following an 8-year legal battle, the Delhi High Court on Thursday legalised gay sex among consenting adults by ruling in favour of a petition which sought a 'reading down' of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code.

Vikram Doctor looks back at the struggles, considerations and strategies by the various NGOs involved with getting the petition written, filed and heard by the Delhi High Court after it was once thrown out on a technicality.

The Delhi High Court is due to deliver its much-awaited verdict on a petition seeking decriminalisation of same-sex relations at 10.30am IST (Indian Standard Time / GMT +5:30 hours).

Playwright Rob McBride examines the West’s exposure to Thailand’s sex trade through the eyes of a naïve Australian protagonist who found himself robbed by a 'transgender' prostitute the morning after - in Katoey, a recent play at Hong Kong’s Fringe Club.

It's a term much bandied about and as the pride season draws to a close in the US and elsewhere, San Francisco-based Tan Chong Kee takes closer look at what it means to feel “pride”.

As LGBTs in several Indian cities take to the streets last weekend for the second year running, it has been revealed that a multi-ministry review of its colonial-era Section 377 is underway as the home ministry, which has been constantly opposed to any change, now appears to have changed its stand.

A video, which shows a 16-year-old teenager writhing on the floor at a Connecticut church, has caused outrage among gay rights advocates and gay netizens.

So what would you do if you had just found out you’re HIV+ – and then your brother keeps bugging you to tell him something he thinks you should? This was the dilemma SL Yang was caught in when he was diagnosed more than a decade ago.

Although Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest mocumentary Bruno has not hit the big screens, the movie has come under fire from US gay groups who warn that the movie may further encourage gay stereotypes than to dispel them.

Fridae’s Men’s Sexual Health columnist Jan Wijngaarden wonders why oral sex has not been as widely recommended as a 'safer option' given that it has been found to be of much lower risk compared to anal sex.