In response to the PM's comments on Thursday, People Like Us has called on the Singapore government to show that it is not homophobic and to accommodate the gay community's interests.
Despite having hosted the Nation party which is one of Asia's largest gay and lesbian events for four consecutive years until it was banned this year, Singapore will unlikely be hosting any major gay events anytime soon as the Prime Minister said that such events are "offensive to a large number of Singaporeans."
In Hong Kong, the government has appealed a recent High Court ruling that struck down a law prohibiting consensual gay sex for men under 21, meanwhile Catholic politicians who support same-sex unions and/or abortion rights, and other laws that violate church doctrine may be barred from Sacrament as the world's bishops meet in Vatican City.
Hong Kong's Chi Heng Foundation announces awards to acknowledge and encourage the media for positive coverage of LGBT issues in light of a smear campaign in the media by anti-gay groups to prevent any attempt to extend equal rights to homosexuals. Tim Cribb reports from Hong Kong.
Fridae's Alvin Tan gets all excited about the upcoming Nation.V parties to be held in Phuket, Thailand from Nov 4-6, and the stellar line up of international deejays!
According to the latest survey of 300 lesbians in Beijing, only 21.8 percent said they would come out to their parents, and almost half said they had considered suicide while 16.5 per cent had attempted it.
Taipei gay activists have protested new draft blood donation legislation ahead of the city's third pride parade to be held this Saturday. In Nepal, gay rights organisation Blue Diamond Society highlights Police harassment and brutality against LGBTs while in landmark case in Russia, a court has ruled that a man cannot be denied a job because he is gay.
Kanako Otsuji, who has the honour of being the youngest person ever elected to the Osaka prefectural assembly, talks about gender issues in Japan with a mainstream newspaper after coming out as a lesbian the day before the Tokyo Lesbian and Gay Parade this year.
Fridae's weather girl, Ms Mariah Scary, talks with the latest incarnation of the Weather Girls (of "It's Raining Men" fame) comprising Ingrid Arthur and Dynelle (Dee) Rhodes, about their new release, Totally Wild!
Malaysia's former DPM Anwar Ibrahim has threatened to sue his former boss Mahathir Mohamad for defamation after the latter accused Anwar of being gay. Following a deepening a rift over homosexuality, the Church of Nigeria has deleted all references to its British "mother" church from its constitution. In New York, a pair of famously gay penguins have spilt up after six years.
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