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Internationally acclaimed DJ and co-founder of the legendary Sound Factory dance club in NYC Junior Vasquez will be making his first ever appearance in Singapore this weekend at Play and shortly after in Tokyo at Ageha. He tells Fridae readers in an exclusive interview about his beginnings and what punters should expect.

While the world's attention has been focused on Burma's bloody crackdown of human rights protests, judges in Hong Kong were considering whether to award the top prize of a new literary competition to a Burmese gay novel. Dinah Gardner was in Rangoon to bring you this report.

A well known Singaporean transsexual author and speaker, who was asked to leave a club early Saturday morning, hopes to turn the incident into an opportunity to educate the club's bouncers and management about gender diversity.

Strap on your drooling bibs as Alvin Tan unveils Fridae's annual selection of the most desirable men in Asia in its much-anticipated annual Men Fridae Awards!

In the academic setting of an Asian studies conference, Malaysian Muslim women academics could talk about sex and homosex. But any references in mainstream media remain taboo. Doug Sanders recalls impressions of the recent conference held in Kuala Lumpur.

Thirty-seven men including three workers have been arrested on Sunday night at a fitness centre-cum-sauna in northern Malaysian island of Penang.

In a speech urging Cambodians not to discriminate against gays and lesbians, Cambodia's prime minister Hun Sen nonetheless announced that he was severing ties with his adopted lesbian daughter.

Following two days of intense debate and a petition presented to Parliament by a NMP, Singapore's anti-gay law 377A – a relic of its colonial past – will remain as the proposed amendment Bill was passed on Tuesday evening.

Lawmakers in Singapore began a rigorous debate on the retention or repeal of Section 377A of the Penal Code in the Parliament yesterday as voices calling for equal treatment of Singapore's gay citizens was heard possibly for the first time in the Parliament House.

The Open Letter To The Prime Minister of Singapore containing over 8000 signatures has been delivered to the PM's office at the Istana on Monday.