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Although rumours about the 'gay bomb' initially surfaced in 2004, San Francisco's CBS 5 News station reported last Friday that Pentagon officials admitted military leaders had considered, and then subsequently rejected, building the so-called gay bomb in 1994.

Inspired by Singapore's MM Lee Kuan Yew's recent reference to a magazine article about the English university having openly acknowledged gay love for almost 400 years which influenced the statesman's views that Singapore has "no option" but to decriminalise gay sex, columnist Dr Tan Chong Kee finds proof of same sex love being recorded throughout 2,000 years of Chinese history. Part 1 of 2.

A case which involves a group of four HIV-positive gay men - who allegedly raped victims lured on the Internet, drugged them and infected them with the HIV virus - has shocked the Netherlands and gay communities worldwide.

The newly created Seoul Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transsexual/gender Film Festival will run from June 6 to 10 at Seoul Art Cinema.

For the third year running, Sri Lanka's Equal Ground presented its annual weeklong celebration of gay pride in a country where homosexuality is still a criminal offence. Roscoe gives us a run down of the event.

The US government has reaffirmed its policy that bans anyone who ever had sex with another man from donating blood for life despite recommendations by the American Red Cross and two other blood donation centres to lift the ban.

If you are a lesbian, heterosexual man or woman in Melbourne, the management of a gay bar can now legally refuse you entry after a tribunal ruled that the bar has the right to protect their gay male patrons from being harassed and/or "gawked at" as if they were exhibits in a zoo.

When does touching another (gay) man constitute molest? Columnist Jonathan Zhang relates an incident that had occurred at his workplace where he was touched inappropriately and wonders what could, or should he have done about it.

Not only is the 33-year-old Osaka's youngest ever MP; come July, she will also be the country's first openly gay politician to run for for a seat in the House of Councillors, the upper house of the Diet of Japan.

Hong Kong's gay and lesbian community turned out in full force to mark the third annual International Day Against Homophobia.