INDIA — Indian celebrities are taking to social media to support the rights of the lesbian, gay and bisexual community by pushing for equality in a country that criminalizes same-sex relations, reports GayAsiaNews.com. This is in response to Humsafar Trust, an organization that promotes LGBTI rights, that recently started a petition against Section 377 on…
China — For the first time, a Chinese court will hear a challenge against “gay conversion therapy.” This is in a country where same-sex relations were only removed from the list of mental illnesses in the early 2000s, reports GayAsia News.com. Gay rights activists say this could be a legal milestone in their fight to…
BANGKOK — A voluntary organization working with people living with HIV is embarking on a new online campaign to help build supportive social environments and combat HIV discrimination against gay, transgender men and women in Thailand, reports GayAsia News.com. The HIV Foundation Thailand begins its new online campaign called “You are Not Alone” August 1 to…
The seventh annual Pink Lake International LGBT Festival, will again be held on the beautiful Lake Wörthersee, Austria from Aug 28-31. At Lake Woerthersee summer starts earlier – and ends later – than much of Europe. The 17 kilometer long alpine Lake Woerthersee in the Austrian state of Carinthia lies in the region where Austria, Italy and…
SAUDI ARABIA — A man has been sentenced to three years in prison and 450 lashes by a court in Saudi Arabia for using his Twitter account to meet gay men, reports GayAsiaNews.com. The 24-year-old unnamed was arrested after he posted several Tweets calling for same-sex relations and expressing his readiness to meet gay men,…
Melbourne, Australia — Criminalization of groups such as gay men, sex workers and transgender people are threatening progress in the global effort to fight AIDS, South Asian participants told the 20th International AIDS Conference in Australia, reports GayAsiaNews.com India gay rights activist Ashok Kavi told the biennial five-day meeting gathering of 12,000 AIDS activists, scientists…
Joep Lange, a former president of the International AIDS Society, was among those killed in the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down Thursday over eastern Ukraine. According to the Washington Post the identities of the victims have not been officially confirmed by the airline. But Lange’s office in Amsterdam confirmed in a statement that…
Jan Adamec , a historian and political scientist who specializes in the histories of the USSR, Hungary and Czechoslovakia after 1945, has released his annual findings of Czech opinions on the social acceptability of homosexuality. The Public Opinion Research Centre of the Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (Centrum…
Assam, an Indian state of some 30 million people located in the country’s Northeastern corner, is known for many things. It has been designated as one of the richest biodiversity zones in the world, is the last refuge for a number of threatened species including the Bengal Florican, the white-rumped vulture and the one-horned rhinoceros…
SINGAPORE –– Singapore’s highest court is hearing the case of a gay couple appealing against the dismissal of their challenge that the anti-gay ‘Section 377A’ law is unconstitutional, reports GayAsiaNews.com. A two-day hearing before a three-judge panel began July 14 as lawyers for Kenneth Chee and Gary Lim argued that the ban, first adopted under…
