The Hong Kong Lesbian & Gay Film and Video Festival 2006 will open on Thursday featuring over 50 screenings as well as a forum on transgenderism and a performance/lecture on FTM transgenderism by NY-based artist Tobaron Waxman. Elsewhere, the Bangkok Pride festival will culminate in a parade on Sunday; Beijing has opened its first clinic for gays providing anonymous and free STD testing and treatment.
Sultry sex symbol Angelina Jolie is said to be almost every dyke's wet dream, but her heartthrob of a husband Brad Pitt is too an object of dyke desire. Dinah Gardner finds out why some lesbians dig men like Brad, Johnny Depp, Wang Li Hom and Takeshi Kaneshiro.
In a high profile case, a gay Republican congressman resigned and was forced to come out last month after he was found to have sent sexually explicit instant messages to teenaged former pages. Alex Au asks if the gay community is doing itself any favours by embracing in our own way, the "don't ask, don't tell" mantra.
The Hong Kong government will not appeal a recent ruling that will effectively lower the homosexual age of consent from 21 to 16. In Singapore, a cable television provider has been fined US$6,400 for airing lesbian sex scenes in an American reality TV show. Same-sex couples in Osaka may soon be invited to the City Hall where they will receive blessings by the Mayor.
Partygoers at the Muscle Beach Pool Party - third in the Nation.VI party line-up and co-hosted by Ageha Japan - saw not just muscle boys, but also a torrential downpour: thunder, lightning and heavy rain.
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