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Two studies about the success and failure of changing one's sexual orientation through counselling were presented at American Psychiatric Association conference.

While a new study has suggested that gays can turn straight, critics have noted that many of the study's subjects are project participants from church groups. In recent years, several prominent leaders of "ex-gay" ministries have become "ex-ex-gays."

For more and more women, self-mutilation is becoming a way of coping with emotional pain and low self-esteem.

Gay activists in Hong Kong have accused the Red Cross of illegal discrimination after the organisation's refusal to accept blood donations from gay men.

Also known as cold cores, herpes simplex, genital herpes and oral herpes, it is one of man's most prevalent diseases.

Felicia Chan reviews the Bard's most well-known play with a cast of only four "Catholic schoolboys".

Gay organisations in Hong Kong will come together to pay tribute to pro-democracy gay activist Leung Wah.

Yahoo! will restore adult content following the removal of all search facilties for sex-related egroups in April.

Transsexuals in Japan will file civil suits to have their new gender recorded on their family registrations.

Mark is an Australia-based researcher at the University of Queensland who researches queer cultures and peoples in the Asia-Pacific region.