Fridae

Now that we're done nursing our hangovers, Bernard Wee hopes that individuals in the gay community resolve to be more engaged and aim to build sustainable relationships with other communities in the new year.

This week: Canadian officials issue health alert for gay men, study finds that gay and straight men are alike in body image hang-ups, New Zealand gay club suspects arsonist and Chicago Gay Games organisers remind participants of early registration dateline.

More than 80,000 people were reported killed and millions displaced after tidal waves swept across the Indian sub continent to Thailand on Sunday; donations sought.

A former Australian diplomat and his American business partner have been convicted on "pornography" charges for distributing a free Bangkok gay magazine cum tourist guide.

This Christmas, Fridae speaks with Jean Chong, the Chairperson of the all-inclusive Free Community Church (FCC) in Singapore which is inviting all to a Christmas Celebration service.

San Francisco public health officials issue alert about LGV, a rare sexually transmitted disease, after it turned up in a few MSM patients in the city after recent outbreak in Rotterdam.

Do something different in 2005. Action for AIDS is seeking volunteers and part-time staffers for its new outreach, counselling and media research projects, find out how you can help keep people around you safe.

This week: Pope slams gay marriage, critics in fury as book claim Lincoln was gay, China's gays know little about AIDS: survey, Ellen DeGeneres spilts with girlfriend and Erasure's Bell reveals he has HIV.

Singapore's PM has for the first time commented on the rejection of an entertainment licence to hold SnowBall, saying that "the party should not be targeted at gays alone."

The organisers of a banned gay Christmas party in Singapore that had attracted major international sponsors have hit ...