Fridae

Eileena Lee and her mother share their journey about coming to terms with the former's lesbian sexual orientation, and supporting each other as they both seek answers in a world where gay issues are often misunderstood and misrepresented.

'Family values' is a term much bandied about by anti-gay 'pro-family' groups who accuse gays of being anti-family, Aniruddh Vasudevan, director of the Shakti Resource Center, Chennai shares a conversation he recently had with his parents in a local newspaper.

A lesbian couple in Beijing who are looking to conceive with sperm from a donor shares with Dinah Gardner their hopes and challenges.

A group that was set up to "expose the ex-gay ministries as a hoax" warns of a soon to be released bogus study that will prove the "success" of ex-gay therapy and urges ex-gay groups to "back up their outrageous tales of transformation."

Fridae columnist Tan Chong Kee 'fesses up to being a bitch during testy Chinese New Year family interactions in his younger days and ponders what his comebacks would be to those all too familiar questions this year.

On this Valentine's Day, Fridae's Alvin Tan pays tribute to those special someones who, like our partners, are equally indispensable to our lives: our gay and lesbian friends.