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Mandaue City passes ordinance to ensure equality and respect for LGBT men and women and Rosario town hires 20 gay men as traffic wardens to enforce discipline.

Fifty-nine percent of Chinese people say society should accept gay people and 40 percent of respondents supported marriage between same-sex couples.

  Activists hope that the head of the Catholic Church’s scheduled visit Jan 15-19 to the Philippines will help change local peoples attitude toward the LGBT community.

People wore a rainbow scarf and ran a 15 kilometer course run to highlight gender diversity, discrimination and equal rights.

People in Manila are taking part in a campaign to encourage and support the LGBT community as well as denounce anti-gay discrimination by pushing for equality status between gay and straight people.