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Indonesia parliament drafts bill to ban “LGBT behaviour” from broadcasts and advertisements.

Thaweesak Lertprapan says young men are becoming infected with HIV by imitating gay characters on TV.

Online video streaming service LeTV has angered LGBT for describing homosexuality as the ‘wrong concept of love.’

A TV program of Southern Television (whose name in Chinese is 城事特搜) has reported on LGBT issues for the last three consecutive nights, causing great dissatisfaction in the gay community. 

For the first time in almost 10 years, the controversial subject of gay sexuality education in Singapore schools was discussed in a talk show on Tuesday night. Columnist and veteran gay activist Alex Au compares the past and present, and sees a "positive difference".

With Ugly Betty's Marc St James and Brothers & Sisters' Kevin Walker, Scotty Wandell and Saul Holden, US broadcast television will have 16 regular LGBT characters in prime-time series this fall - the highest tally ever.

Are your TV signals loud and queer? There are more openly gay characters on Singapore TV now than ever before. These days, you can't switch on the TV without seeing at least one openly queer character everyday.

He's cute, has a good sense of humour; and is still single. Meet 27-year-old Didier Zheng who's the host of China's first gay Internet TV show. He tells Fridae in an exclusive interview about the government's restrictions on the show and the observations he has gleaned while hosting.