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Inclusion in india study finds only 2% of companies investigated 'seemed comfortable' speaking about LGBT issues.

Community Business, an NGO dedicated to “advancing corporate social responsibility in Asia”, according to its website, has just announced the launch of its trailblazing LGBT Workplace Inclusion Index in Hong Kong.

Aibai Culture & Education Center is a non-profit organisation dedicated to providing critical information on the Chinese speaking LGBT community. Here are the results of a survey the conducted last year in regards to being LGBT in the Chinese workplace.

A group of activists in Singapore has launched a campaign and appeal for donations to support a gay man who has taken his former employer to court for allegedly terminating his employment on the grounds of sexual orientation, and is now seeking a court declaration that Article 12 of the Constitution which guarantees all persons equal protection of the law will also apply to gay men and lesbians.

Senior executives of 19 global financial services firms gathered last Thursday at Out on the Street Asia, the region's first LGBT workplace summit, to share their thoughts on LGBT diversity. Fridae's Hong Kong correspondent Nigel Collett reports.

A gay man, who had brought a suit against his former employer last year claiming that he was harassed to leave his job because he is gay, has today filed an application at the High Court for constitutional protection against workplace discrimination of gay men.

Titled "LGBT Diversity in the Workplace", the event is part of Fridae's ongoing efforts to promote the empowerment of LGBTs in Asia. Registrations are now open.

About 90 human resource professionals, diversity champions, NGOs and LGBT community leaders attended the second Annual Workplace Diversity conference, which was presented by Aibai and IBM, in Beijing last month.

Over 350 LGBT business executives (including Fridae Chairman Paul Thompson) and allies from more than 26 countries, representing more than 80 organizations and government agencies, gathered in London to share their best practices and ideas for creating workplaces where LGBT people are safe, accepted, and valued.

The "most powerful gay man in the tech world" who was also named the most influential gay man in the US must surely be role model material, or not? Well, some of us are hoping he would be, if and when he comes out.