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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 organisers of the region's biggest gay party are calling it off following last weekend's Nation party in Phuk...

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.

Nation's all time favorites, David S and Victor Cheng were the DJ's of the house until Kate Monroe came on at 4am for Feelin' Good, the closing party.

Nation.VI's second pool side party was finally graced by the sun god Apollo and saw a beautiful setting sun that warmed up the oiled bodies.

After six ground-breaking Nation parties – four in Singapore and two in Phuket – the gay and lesbian portal Fridae....

The one-year wait for Nation.VI is finally over, though waiting for the next might sadly be forever.

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.