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According to the country's health authorities, more people contracted HIV through male-to-male sexual contact compared to heterosexual contact last year.

Sydney, host of the 2002 Gay Games and its own annual gay and lesbian Mardi Gras, has a reputation of being the gay capital of the region. Mark Adnum looks at how the city has progressed since the Mardi Gras' beginning as a fist-throwing street march 25 years ago.

Fridae's Manila-based columnist, Glenn Chua, shares his views regarding gay and lesbian marriages shortly after the Catholic Church in the Philippines was accused of fanning "anti-gay hatred" at the World Meeting of Families conference held last month.

Fridae's Ms Mariah Scary reviews 80s pop group Erasure's Other People's Songs and delivers her verdict on the group's new album of evergreen covers.

The (US) National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs has expressed concern about the results of a new US study which shows that urban gay men are just as likely as heterosexual women to be victims of domestic violence.

As the sequined tops and feather boas are put back in the closet for another year following Bangkok's Pride festival, Rob Newbold looks at a pinker future for Thailand's gay and lesbian community.

Fridae's self-appointed muscle maniac, Alvin Tan, makes an appearance at Muscle War 2003 and provides readers with a totally biased account of the muscled men on display.

Gay rights activists in the Philippines have accused the Catholic Church of fanning "anti-gay hatred," following comments made at the World Meeting of Families conference in Manila last Sunday.

"Bug chaser." If you've never heard that term, you soon will, thanks to an article in the Rolling Stone magazine about the unbelievable phenomenon of gay men going out and deliberately getting themselves infected with the AIDS virus.

The legendary and openly gay Martina Navratilova and her partner Leander Paes scored a straight-sets victory in their mixed doubles final against Todd Woodbridge and Eleni Daniilidou at the Australian Open.