Fridae

After an open letter in which Gigi Chao expressed her love for her father but was adamant that she is happy with her partner, Sean Eav, Cecil Chao revokes dowry offer but fails to accept Eav as part of the family.

Hong Kong Tycoon Cecil Chao has doubled his original offer of HK$500 million to the man that successfully marries his daughter, Gigi Chao.

Thailand's first lesbian movie Yes or No, which was a surprise hit in China and Taiwan, returns to the screen with a sequel this month. Doug Sanders, who reviewed the first on Fridae, reports on the new two hour-long film.

Alex Au speaks with Stefano Fabeni, the Director of Global Rights' LGBTI Initiative; Joel Simpson, Guyana's Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD); and other activists at the Commonwealth People's Forum who are working to highlight LGBT-related concerns in former British colonies that have inherited Victorian-era sodomy laws from the former colonising power.

Impressions from the 2009 Out & Equal Workplace Summit held in Orlando, 6-9 October 2009.

Citing a spate of cases involving young women "behaving like men and indulging in lesbian sex" as reported by the Malay language Berita Harian, Malaysia's National Fatwa Council has announced a ban on "tomboyish" behaviour and lesbian relations.

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

Touted as the first regional girls' party in Singapore, Qtopia which is presented by veteran party organiser Two Queens will take over Caf� del Mar for the night with famed Aussie DJ Kate Monroe and DJ Nun from Bangkok.

Changing the world might take more than 5,000 euros. But it's a start for Beijing-based lesbian group Common Language, the prize winner of the Mama Cash awards.

Jodie Foster, who's known to be fiercely private, thanked her "beautiful Cydney" at an award ceremony - a move seen by the media as coming out.