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3000 people attended the inaugural LGBT rally, Pink Dot, in Taipei this weekend.

A former South African Constitutional Court judge who was in Taiwan recently to receive the country’s top Tang Prize for rule of law said Taiwan could become a leader in openness if it were to the first in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage.

  A Gallup Poll survey of global attitudes toward the LGBT community shows that in many Asian countries questions regarding gay and lesbian people were even too sensitive to be asked.

  Taiwan is officially wooing gay tourists in the hope of becoming Asia’s top tourist destination in a region that is often openly hostile towards gay people.

  A lesbian couple in Taiwan is petitioning the local courts in an attempt to rectify laws which currently bar one of the women from claiming two of their children as her own.

People in Taiwan are appalled that a Christian group has managed to repeatedly air an anti-gay film in the guise of teaching and respecting in the territory's public school system.

Religious leaders and politicians have formed a strategic alliance to halt the furthering of equality legislation that seeks to end anti gay discrimination and allow same-sex couples to marry.

A Taiwanese commercial for a new photo-editing feature on the latest Asus phone in has gone viral in greater China. 

The International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHOT) is the largest annual LGBT solidarity action and will take place on May 17th 2014. This years theme is 'Free Expression', and there's loads of events in the region, so find one near you to join.

Some of the less-published (yet no less interesting) news events from April in Asia.