One of the most important key missions in having a gay pride parade is to create societal acceptance. But some Bangkok gay residents are resistant to accepting the event themselves. Fridae's Bangkok correspondent Vitaya Saeng-Aroon writes.
For all the praise and applause following Taipei's seventh - and largest to-date - Gay Pride festival, not all is as rosy as rainbow floats and party balloons. To scratch beneath the city's seven-year itch, Fridae's Taipei correspondent Philip Hwang talks to J.J. Lai, gay rights activist and owner of the city's iconic "GinGin's Bookstore," about double-faced authorities, clashes behind the scenes, and the future of gay pride in Taipei.
Lucky Seven: The latest Bangkok pride festival was held from Oct 28 to Nov 5 with no soldiers in sight. Douglas Sanders notes the changes this year as the parade appeared to be less commercial, over all, than in past years.
Singapore's newest HIV prevention campaign will be launched today. The *think again campaign is the first HIV prevention campaign conceptualised based directly on a survey of men who have sex with men (MSM) in Singapore.
As part of Singapore's first major penal code amendments in 22 years, anal and oral sex in private among between consenting heterosexual adults will soon be decriminalised but the law criminalising sexual acts between men will remain.
Disgraced former US evangelical leader Ted Haggard, who was fired amid allegations of paying for gay sex and drug use, will undergo "therapeutic restoration" conducted by Focus on the Family's James Dobson and two other pastors.
So says director Zabou Breitman, whose tender and lovely film The Man of My Life is about a straight man falling in love with a gay one. She talks to Fridae about masculinity, homophobia and why tops tend to think they're the center of the world.
Here's a gay play with a difference: the audience gets to choose the ending. After seven months in a committed relationship, Jason cheats on his boyfriend Daniel, having unprotected sex with a stranger. Can the relationship survive the consequences? You decide. Presented by The Necessary Stage (Singapore) in conjunction with Action For AIDS.
The two-week-long Hong Kong Lesbian and Gay Film & Video Festival is now in full swing. Festival Director Vicci Ho takes a breather and tells Fridae about the highlights of the festival, her favourite lesbian movies and her take on The L Word.
The major Australian broadsheet, which broke the news, is being criticised for using homophobic language such as "rampant homosexual activity," "horrified users," portraying gay men as predatory and linking gay men with paedophiles. Fridae speaks to two Sydneysiders about the issue.
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