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Element Magazine explores the rising LGBT movement in Burma. In meeting with the members of the LGBT community and activists they paint a picture of life for these people in Burma.

A Chiang Mai-based LGBT rights group that serves the Burmese LGBT community and began Rainbow TV programs in late 2011 says it will continue to broadcast television programs on a monthly basis.

An estimated 200 to 400 members of Chiangmai's LGBT community – including some 70 of Burmese origin – and their supporters marched in Chiang Mai, Thailand on Sunday to promote non-violence towards members of the LGBT community.

While the world's attention has been focused on Burma's bloody crackdown of human rights protests, judges in Hong Kong were considering whether to award the top prize of a new literary competition to a Burmese gay novel. Dinah Gardner was in Rangoon to bring you this report.