Organisers of the 2001 Tokyo Lesbian and Gay Parade hope the event will gain positive social recognition and encourage the glbt community to celebrate sexual diversity.
Australia's conservative Prime Minister John Howard said on Thursday that same-sex couples should not be allowed to marry and marriage should remain an exclusively heterosexual institution.
With approximately 1.88 million copies sold in its first week of release, *NSYNC's third album shows the boys writing and co-producing much of its material, with potent forays into hip-hop and more daring ballads.
In Bangkok, while cross-dressers receive more acceptance than elsewhere n Asia, they are still often considered a fringe element to both the scene and the sex industry.
Fridae speaks to Benedict Jacob-Thambiah who has been with Singapore's only AIDS advocacy group, Action for Aids in the past seven years about fighting against AIDS as a community, coming to terms with one's sexuality and other issues.