Fridae

Fridae co-founder Robert Yeoh passed away at age 52 on July 10, 2007.

The inaugural Asia Pacific Outgames will coincide with Melbourne's annual Midsumma Festival in January and February next year.

As the much anticipated final instalment of the Asian Boys Trilogy opens next Wednesday, Fridae catches up with Johann S. Lee, who wrote Singapore's first gay novel, Peculiar Chris, in 1992 and from which Happy Endings is adapted.

A nightclub at Novotel Bangkok, which was widely reported to have discriminated against a transvestite by barring him from entering its premises, has issued an apology admist a boycott that was underway.

Premiering this Saturday, WOMEN who LOVE WOMEN: Conversations in Singapore features three Singaporean lesbians who talk about their lives in the city state where same-sex acts are still illegal.

Due to a technicality, lesbians, gays and transgenders in Thailand will not be protected under the country's new constitution.

Australia's government must amend laws that discriminate against same-sex couples, which the government's human rights commission documented last week in a landmark report, Human Rights Watch said today.

LGBT advocates plan to launch a boycott against the Novotel Bangkok hotel for barring a transvestite from its nightclub.

Rice and potato queens have often been the subject of discussion on Fridae and elsewhere. What about rice and potato queen dykes? Lesbian columnist Dinah Garder explains why "Asian girls just do it for her" and attempts to uncover the differences between gay men and lesbians who profess a preference for a certain race.

A Pakistani high court has sent a couple consisting of a transgendered man and a woman to jail as same-sex marriage is prohibited in the country.