Asia
Gay Vietnam News & Reports 2010-11
1 Hanoi society gradually more gay-friendly 01/10 2 Treatment of homosexuals availability of state protection and services 1/10 3 Gay art exhibition tours universities in Hanoi, Vietnam 4/10 4 Coming Out in Vietnam and Hoping for Tolerance 12/10 5 China announces high-speed rail link to Singapore via Vietnam 1/11 5a High-risk groups fail to heed… Read more »
Gay Afghanistan News & Reports 2001
Also see: Islam and Homosexuality More information about Islam & Homosexuality can be found at: www.al-fatiha.org Other articles of interest can be found at: groups.yahoo.com/group/al-fatiha-news Queer Muslim magazine: Huriyah Gay Islam discussion groups: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/muslimgaymen http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lgbtmuslim http://groups.yahoo.com/group/queerjihad http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bimuslims http://groups.yahoo.com/group/transmuslims http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lesbianmuslims 1 The Untold War: Boys Abused by War and Captors (Los Angeles Times) 7/01 ( A… Read more »
Armenia: Gays Live with Threats of Violence, Abuse
Two years after Yerevan signed an international agreement to uphold the civil rights of gays, homosexuals in Armenia still face the constant threat of physical abuse and social isolation because of their sexual orientation. “When my parents learned that I was homosexual, they first beat me and then kicked me out,” Armen, a 22-year-old Yerevan… Read more »
Gay Thailand News & Reports 2010
1 Mplus produces animations for HIV/AIDS outreach and prevention 1/10 2 Marginalised empowered by learning legal rights 3/10 3 Money-boys in Thailand: sex, work, and stigma 4/10 4 Sex frequency and sex planning among MSM in Bangkok 4/10 5 Inconsistent Condom Use Among Young MSM… 4/10 6 Notes from Bangkok 5/10 7 Report from Gay… Read more »
Gay Thailand News & Reports 2009
1 Fire in Bangkok gay sauna kills patron 1/09 2 Veteran gay activist slams Chiang Mai’s second pride parade 2/09 3 Chiang Mai gay pride parade called off 2/09 4 On-the-ropes gay mag industry fights for media acceptance 2/09 5 Mainstreaming HIV prevention in Thailand 2/09 6 Without equality, tolerance for gays is just a… Read more »
Gay Thailand News & Reports 2008
1 ILGA-Asia conference elects first regional board 2/08 2 ChiangMai, Thailand witnessed its first gay march 2/08 3 Thailand’s Gay Past 2/08 4 Call for action against bogus AIDS cures 3/08 5 New men’s lifestyle TV programme to launch March 9 in Thailand 3/08 6 Thailand joins gay blood ban 4/08 7 Temporary ban on… Read more »
Gay Thailand News & Reports 2007
1 National Human Rights Commission of Thailand 2 Thailand Promises Elections This Year 3/07 3 Organizers of Book Fair unable to check content of all books sold by vendors 4/07 4 A look at the acceptance and rejection of gay people in Phuket 4/07 5 AIDS activists in Thailand protest U.S. decision on copyright violators… Read more »
Gay Thailand News & Reports 2004-06
1 Thais Better Know Where Their Children Are–Curfews are back 2/04 2 The Story Utopia Tours Never Dreamed They Would Have to Publish 3/04 3 Film Tells of Kickboxer Who Had Sex Change 4/04 4 School gives transvestites own restroom 6/04 5 Thailand’s Cultural Ministry "Declares War" on Homosexuals 6/04 6 Love, Fantasy, Money and… Read more »
Gay Pakistan News & Reports 2010-11
Also see: More information about Islam & Homosexuality al-fatiha-news Middle East Youth Muslim Yahoo Group: “Queer Muslim Revolution“ Queer Muslim magazine: Huriyah, Barra Gay Islam discussion groups: Muslim Gay Men LGBT muslim Queer Jihad Bi-muslims Trans-muslims Lesbian muslims 1 Gay man gets refugee status in S. Korea 1/10 2 Gay-marriage couple remanded to police custody… Read more »
Gay Hong Kong News & Reports 2010
1 Les Peches: Hong Kong’s premier lesbian social organisation 2/10 2 More inclusive workplaces for LGBT employees in Hong Kong 2/10 3 Reggie Ho: The loneliness of long distance activism 3/10 4 Fellowship and faith: Hong Kong’s Blessed Minority Christian Fellowship 4/10 5 Hong Kong gay radio show wins human rights award 4/10 6 Hong… Read more »
Gay Hong Kong News & Reports 2009
1 Hong Kong Activist and Christian Legislators Clash 1/09 2 Queering Asia 1/09 3 700 march in Hong Kong to protect civil rights from Christian right 2/09 4 US warns on wave of foreign male prostitutes 2/09 5 New HIV cases hit record high in Hong Kong 3/09 6 Assaults by religious right on HIV… Read more »
Gay Malaysia News & Reports 2010
Also see: More information about Islam & Homosexuality al-fatiha-news Queer Muslim magazine Gay Islam discussion groups: Muslim Gay Men LGBT muslim Queer Jihad Bi-muslims Trans-muslims Lesbian muslims 1 Malaysian man fails to overturn sodomy ban, 60-year jail term to stay 1/10 2 Grandpa held in raid at gay joint 2/10 3 19 men arrested at… Read more »
Gay Hong Kong News & Reports 2007-08
1 Hong Kong: Gay activists condemn TV show ruling 1/07 2 Update on Gay Venues in Hong Kong 6/07 3 Hong Kong top court upholds rejection of public gay sex ban 7/07 4 Ramon Magsaysay Award recipients announced 8/07 5 Hong Kong gay activist to run for district council member 10/07 6 The Bible Knows… Read more »
Gay Hong Kong News & Reports 1997-2006
1 After the Changeover: The Future of Gay Hong Kong 7/97 2 Pro-Democracy Forces Win Big in Hong Kong Election 5/98 3 First gay pride day to be held at boat festival 6/99 4 Gay Lobby Presses Legco for Rights Laws 9/00 5 Majority against gay rights law 12/00 6 Gay group clashes with police… Read more »
Gay India News & Reports 2010 Jan-Sep
Gay Bombay Yahoo Group GayLaxy Magazine The Queer Cronicle 1 Video: India awaits final ruling on gay sex 1/10 1a MSM and women in Bangalore, South India, and HIV 2 Male sex workers in India 2/10 3 Transgender beauty pageant concludes in Mumbai 2/10 3b Sexual behaviour of MSM and transgenders in Southern India 4… Read more »
More equal or less equal?
As a country in pursuit of harmony and happiness, gender equality has lately become an issue in Bhutan. From cultural and traditional stereotypes to the marriage act to women’s access to inner sanctum of lhakhangs and dzongs, Metho Dema explores what issues of concern underpin gender debate. There is a popular story about a minister,… Read more »
Gay China News & Reports 2010 Jan-May
Utopia Guide to Gay and Lesbian China (first gay and lesbian guide to China) 0 China’s first gay pageant gives glimpse of new acceptance 1/10 00 China paper splashes nation’s ‘first gay marriage’ 1/10 1 China’s state press covers gay wedding 1/10 2 Mr Gay China pageant shut down by police 1/10 3 China will… Read more »
Gay China News & Reports 2009
Also see: Utopia Guide to Gay and Lesbian China (first gay and lesbian guide to China) 1 China to tackle HIV incidence amongst MSM 1/09 2 Expert: Marriage dogma against gay may fuel AIDS 3/09 3 Guangdong police arrests 110 men in 2 raids 3/09 4 Review: Obsession: Male Same-Sex Relations In China, 1900-1950 5/09… Read more »
Gay China News & Reports 2008
Also see: Utopia Guide to Gay and Lesbian China (first gay and lesbian guide to China) 1 Increasingly, parents of gay children are not only accepting their sexuality 1/08 2 Filmmaker exposes gay life, pollution in China 1/08 2a Chinese Parents of Gay Children Team Up in Support of Each Other 1/08 3 China starts… Read more »
Gay China News & Reports 2007
Also see: Utopia Guide to Gay and Lesbian China (first gay and lesbian guide to China) 1 Chinese gays feel compelled to marry 2/07 2 China Covers Up Detention of AIDS Doctor 2/07 3 The second International Conference of Asian Queer Studies 2/07 4 Gay domestic abuse called rampant in China 2/07 5 For Gays… Read more »
Gay Singapore News & Reports 2010-11
1 Fridae.com launches Asia’s largest-ever Internet gay sex survey 01/10 2 Putting the gay back into Chingay 2/10 3 Pink Dot: Singapore’s second public LGBT-supportive event…15 May 3/10 4 Can gay relationships last? 3/10 5 4,000 attend Singapore’s second LGBT-supportive public rally 5/10 6 Marla Bendiniby 5/10 7 Entrapment and implied consent of police decoys… Read more »
Gay China News & Reports 2006
Also see: Utopia Guide to Gay and Lesbian China (first gay and lesbian guide to China) 1 Discretion a stumbling block for gay status 1/06 2 China Issues First Report on Gays 2/06 2b New book shows different aspects of gay life 2/06 3 China expert pushes for gay marriage 3/06 4 China launches HIV… Read more »
Gay Singapore News & Reports 2009
1 Updated: 6 men charged in teen sex case 2/09 2 Adolescent fences 2/09 3 Anti-gay Christian fundamentalists hijack women’s group 4/09 4 Singaporeans to make a stand against prejudice and bigotry 4/09 5 Singapore gays in first public rally 5/09 6 Living with HIV – A gay man’s personal journey (Part 1) 6/09 7… Read more »
Gay China News & Reports 2003-05
Also see: Utopia Guide to Gay and Lesbian China (first gay and lesbian guide to China) 1 HIV infects 3 percent of gays in Beijing 6/03 2 China Begins Giving Free H.I.V./AIDS Drugs to the Poor 11/03 3 Gay professor lecturing homosexual health in local university 11/03 4 Gay Rights in China: An Update 12/03… Read more »
Gay Singapore News & Reports 2008
1 Banks woo gay recruits in Asia 1/08 2 Singapore holds first festival dedicated to LGBT feature films 1/08 3 Cool reception for Asia’s gay workers 2/08 3a Singapore censors say four films banned from film festival 4/08 4 Singapore censors ban films on terrorism, homosexual, fetish 4/08 4a Authority fines TV Channel 5 $11,000… Read more »
Gay China News & Reports 1997-2002
Also see: Utopia Guide to Gay and Lesbian China (first gay and lesbian guide to China) 1 Door to Tolerance Opens Partway As Gay Life Is Emerging in China 9/97 2 Chinese sexual museum has high-minded goals 1999 3 In Rural China, a Steep Price of Poverty: Dying of AIDS 10/00 4 China anti-vice… Read more »
Gay South Korea News & Reports 2008-11
1 Seoul Policeman Comes Out, Fights Prejudice 1/08 2 South Korea Sees First Openly Gay Politician 3/08 3 Seoul’s spring forecast: More visibility for Korea’s queers 6/08 4 Gay Actor Found Dead in Apparent Suicide 10/08 5 South Korea asks court to retain ban on gays in the military 11/08 6 South Korea challenged over… Read more »
Gay Singapore News & Reports 2007
1 Half of singapore youths find homosexuality ”acceptable,” 1/07 2 Council of churches commends Singapore government 3/07 3 The truly abhorrent thing 3/07 4 New Zealand AIDS foundation’s new safe sex campaign 5/07 5 Retention of gay sex laws “cannot be justified” 5/07 6 Analysis: The gay debate and the breakthrough we need 5/07 6a… Read more »
Gay Singapore News & Reports 2005-06
1 Singapore government Aids comment outrages gay activists 3/05 2 Singapore Nixes AIDS Concert Over US Gay Singers 3/05 3 Singapore minister upholds ban on gay Christian concert 3/05 4 Homosexual rights book earns national prize 5/05 5 ‘Nation Party’ moves to November 4-6 in Phuket, Thailand 6/05 6 Gay Singaporeans gather to pray in… Read more »
Gay South Korea News & Reports 2003-07
1 Life and Death in Queer Korea-Part I 3/03 2 Life and Death in Queer Korea-Part II 3/03 2a Military to End Punishment of Gay Soldiers 4/03 3 South Korea begins opening up to gays 4/03 4 Editorial: Rights of gay juveniles 5/03 5 Changing Patients’ Sexes, and Korean Mores 6/03 6 Showing gay pride,… Read more »
Gay Sri Lanka News & Reports 2008-11
1 Sri Lankan gays protest at newspaper stereotyping 2/08 2 Homosexuality in Sri Lanka Past and Present 3/08 3 Arthur C. Clarke, Premier Science Fiction Writer, Dies at 90 3/08 4 Vagrant voices 3/08 5 Asian gay, transgender groups fight for their rights 6/08 6 Colombo PRIDE 2008 concludes on a HIGH note! 7/08 7… Read more »
Gay India News & Reports Sep-Dec 2009
1 Indian govt to accept gay sex ruling: report 9/09 2 Job training opens window to a new life for massage men 9/09 3 Suspected gay couple hangs to death 10/09 4 Urban Poor Stand UP for Transgenders 10/09 5 Gay prince sets up India’s first old age home for gay men and women 10/09… Read more »
Korea, Republic of: Treatment of homosexuals, including legislation, availability of state protection and support services
Homosexuality is not criminalized in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) (Fridae 29 May 2009; ILGA May 2009; Gay Times n.d.), although various sources note that homosexuals face discrimination (ABC News 27 May 2009; The Korea Times 9 Dec. 2008; Fridae 9 Oct. 2008). In particular, gay rights sources claim that many gay Koreans believe… Read more »
Love Among the Ruins: USA, an Indian Prince, Love & HIV
Sydney, Australia – While America was limping from the loss of two important marriage-rights elections (New Jersey and Maine), across the globe in India there was a cause for celebration of sorts. Prince Manvendra Gohil, the famous ‘gay Prince’ from Rajpipla state in the western Gujarat area of India announced last night to an audience… Read more »
A Princely Gay Man – Manvendra Singh Gohil of India Comes Out
No question that rank carries privilege and privilege carries fame. This time it belongs to an Indian prince who came out as gay in 2005 and shocked his family and fascinated the Indian public. Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil of the Rajpipla region in the state of Gujarat, the westernmost state in India (Mahatma Gandhi was… Read more »
HIV-AIDS and Homophobia in Timor-Leste
In its Comments on the U.S. Department of State Country reports on Human Rights Practices for 2008, the East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) and West Papua Advocacy Team (WPAT) noted that, in East Timor: There is pervasive bias against homosexuals, keeping nearly all closeted. People with HIV/AIDS are largely unidentified due to lack… Read more »
Gay Brunei News & Reports
1 Should beheading be the penalty for homosexuals? 6/08 2 A look at homosexuality in Brunei 1/11 June 13, 2008 – Brunei Times 1 Should beheading be the penalty for homosexuals? Recently, Gambian President Yahya Jammeh threatened to behead homosexuals, and two persons were arrested and are being held for trial. What is the Syariah… Read more »
Timor Leste Red Cross exludes homosexuals from HIV-AIDS Reduction Program
ETLJB 19 September 2009 Before the undemocratically-formulated Constitution was adopted in East Timor in 2002, constitutional protection for homosexuals in East Timor was expunged from an early draft. The then Constituent Assembly (the prototype of the present National Parliament) voted to remove gay protections from the new nation’s draft constitution. Fifty-two of the Assembly’s 88… Read more »
Gay Azerbaijan News & Reports
1 Azeri-Armenian gay love story strains at taboos 3/09 2 The Violations of the Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender 7/09 3 UN HRC calls Azerbaijan to combat harassment of LGBT by state employees 9/09 4 Azeri MPs boycotted Council of Europe (PACE) gay rights debate 2/10 5 US State Department human rights report 3/10… Read more »
Homosexuality, Marriage, and Religion in Tibet: An Endlessly Complicated Situation
Originally posted on tricycle July 20, 2009 A post which Tricycle editor James Shaheen recently wrote at the Huffington Post blog has picked up a good bit of attention around the internet. James’s subject was the Dalai Lama’s views on gay marriage, which, as he rightly discussed, are quite a complicated matter. In part this… Read more »
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