Fridae

Barbados Minister for Family, Youth and Sports recently announced that gays, lesbians, and transgenders will be protected under legislation against domestic violence. Writing from Port of Spain, the capital of Trinidad and Tobago where the Commonwealth People's Forum was recently held, Alex Au meets with Elizabeth, a MTF transgender from Barbados and finds out more about her country.

Due to a technicality, lesbians, gays and transgenders in Thailand will not be protected under the country's new constitution.

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

The Internet has on many occasions been credited as a liberating force for LGBTs but is it really? Alex Au examines the two features of the Internet that may work against LGBTs in reducing visibility of LGBT individuals as well as audience fragmentation given that surfers choose what they want to read online.