Fridae speaks to Jeffrey Tan, resident choreographer and assistant ballet master with the Singapore Dance Theatre. The SDT is presenting the visually spectacular epic, Reminiscing The Moon, this weekend at the Esplanade Theatre.
Last week, an appeals court in Fiji overturned a gay sex conviction on constitutional grounds shortly. In the US, anti-gay groups have called for a botcott of Starbucks over a gay quote used on a coffee cup, meanwhile New Orlean's Southern Decadence has become another casualty of Hurricane Katrina.
In the closeted diplomatic world of the United Nations, Brazil waved a rainbow flag, shocking Pakistan and Malaysia and others. Retired Canadian law professor Douglas Sanders thanks the land of Carnival and Carmen Miranda, even if it ducked when the going got tough.
The Thai resort city of Phuket is set to host Nation - Asia's largest gay and lesbian party - as originally scheduled to be held from November 4-6 as organisers met with the Phuket Governor and Mayor of the local council last week.
"Don't panic, I am Islamic," read one of her flyers. Fridae speaks to DJ Ipek, who performed her first gig in Berlin sheathed in a Burka, on coming out to her family and getting into DJing. She's scheduled to play at Shanghai's Home&Bar this weekend.
IndigNation - Singapore's first gay and lesbian pride month - closes this week with Adlus' sixth anniversary bash. Singapore's pioneer gay activist, Alex Au, recaps the series of events and shares how IndigNation was born.
The law under which defendants under 21could be sentenced to up to life imprisonment for sexual acts between men was overturned in a court ruling as High Court judge Michael Hartmann declared the provisions unconstitutional.
Sydney-based Asian-Canadian writer, Andy Quan, has released a hot new collection of sex writing and erotica called Six Positions. It's his third book and well on its way to becoming his biggest seller to date, having already reached the top five gay bestseller list in Australia. He is interviewed for fridae.com by Marc Andrews.
A recent Bangkok study, which reveals a high and rapid increase as compared to 2003 figures, also suggests more than one in four local MSM could be HIV positive. A Fridae exclusive from the HIV Prevention and Care Interventions for MSM in the Greater Mekong Region - Regional Consultative Forum in Bangkok.
In Japan, a lesbian politician comes out at Tokyo's Gay Pride while gay activists protest say sex law in Mumbai. Meanwhile in Sydney, a new study has revealed that syphilis has become an epidemic among gay men in the inner city and in Shanghai, undergraduates can now take a course on homosexuality for the first time.
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