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Hong Kong Free Press reports that just days after Taiwan became the first jurisdiction in Asia to legalise same-sex marriage

In another blow to Indonesia’s LGBT Community, a court last week rejected a lawsuit by a policeman who claimed he was fired for being gay.

Only 40% of Hong Kong’s LGBT citizens are out at work, and the medical profession is particularly conservative.

Lawyers argue that failing to recognise same-sex marriage violates rights to equality and privacy.

Priscilla Leung led 16 anti-LGBT groups in warning an advert showing two men holding hands would have a ‘chilling effect’.

The supporters rallied in Hong Kong’s Central district on Saturday (25 May), to celebrate Taiwan becoming the first in Asia to legalise same-sex unions. 

Li Huanwu, the grandson of Singapore’s founding prime minister, Lee Kuan Yew, married his partner Heng Yirui 

Sayoni, a Singaporean NGO and support group, has released a groundbreaking report on violence and discrimination faced by lesbian, bisexual, trans and queer (LBTQ) women in Singapore.

Tsai Ing-wen gave Chi Chia-wei the pen she used to sign Taiwan’s same-sex marriage law on Wednesday (22 May).

Hundreds of couples are scheduled to marry on Friday (24 May), the first day of same-sex marriage in Taiwan.