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Added on: 11/29/2020

Man reaches settlement with Tokyo company after boss outed him as gay

11/29/2020

A gay man in his 20s has reached a rare out-of-court settlement with the company he used to work for after a superior revealed his sexual orientation…

Global News

Added on: 11/28/2020

Resolution in KP assembly demands transgender people be allowed to perform Hajj, Umrah

11/27/2020

A resolution demanding transgender people be allowed to perform Hajj and Umrah — two major Islamic pilgrimages — in Saudi Arabia was submitted Friday in the Khyber…

Global News

Added on: 11/27/2020

Transgender Pakistanis find solace in a church of their own

11/26/2020

Pakistan’s Christian transgender people, often mocked, abused and bullied, say they have found peace and solace in a church of their own. Shunned by other churches, they…

Global News

Added on: 11/25/2020

Placement of trans woman in men’s prison inhumane, unlawful: Activists

11/25/2020

Activists have strongly condemned law enforcement officials for placing a transgender woman in a men’s detention facility, calling it an insensitive move against the special needs and…

Global News

Added on: 11/25/2020

The House Drops a Bill That Will Require Indonesians to Turn in Gay Family Members

11/24/2020

Jakarta. A controversial bill proposed by an Islamic political party that will dictate how husbands, wives, and family members behave has stalled at the House of Representatives…

Global News

Added on: 11/25/2020

Israel’s Gantz announces major step for LGBTQ rights

11/23/2020

Israel’s gay community recorded one of the greatest achievements of its long struggle for equal rights on Nov. 19 when Defense Minister and Alternate Prime Minister Benny…

Global News

Added on: 11/25/2020

LGBTQ support lends ‘new taste’ to Thai politics

11/24/2020

It takes Siraphob Attohi three hours to transform from a harried student into his drag queen persona Masala Bold — a wisecracking MC, who raises calls for…

Global News

Added on: 11/24/2020

Gay couple risk 100 lashes after being attacked and dragged out of their home by mob

11/22/2020

A gay couple in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, was forcibly dragged out of their homes to a police station and now run the risk of being lashed 100…

Global News

Added on: 11/22/2020

The brutal institutions ‘transforming’ China’s LGBT, nonconformist youth

11/21/2020

In March 2018, when Huang Xiaodi turned 17, her family told her to return home to Jiangyin, in eastern China’s Jiangsu province, so they could throw a…

Global News

Added on: 11/20/2020

Demands for same sex marriage in India gathers momentum

11/14/2020

Two years after India‘s Supreme Court struck down a colonial-era law that had made homosexuality a criminal offense, courts are hearing petitions seeking to legalize same-sex marriage….

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Added on: 11/20/2020

Emboldened Thai Protesters Vow to Expand Set of Demands

11/18/2020

Anti-government protesters in Thailand are planning to expand their set of demands after generating “significant” support for a movement that’s broken long-held taboos about publicly criticizing the…

Global News

Added on: 11/18/2020

LGBTQ advocates call 1st Islamic school for transgender students in Bangladesh a “positive step,” but not enough

11/17/2020

The first madrassa, or Islamic school, specifically for transgender students in Bangladesh opened last week in the capital city of Dhaka. It was a first not only…

Global News

Added on: 11/16/2020

Transgender people to gain inheritance rights in Bangladesh says country’s Law Minister

11/15/2020

Transgender people will soon be able to inherit property from their families, Bangladesh’s law minister said Sunday, the latest effort to give the minority group more rights…

Global News

Added on: 11/15/2020

‘Mob Fest’ wraps up the Democracy Monument and turns backs on Thai King and Queen

11/14/2020

In a peaceful but controversial gesture, protesters yesterday turned their backs on the royal motorcade as it carried the Thai King and Queen to the opening of…

World Voices

Added on: 11/12/2020

June Chua – The T Project, Singapore

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Can you tell me about how you decided to start The T Project? I’d been a sex worker for many years. Sex work is very mundane and…

Global News

Added on: 11/09/2020

We’re part of China’s population’: LGBT couples seek recognition in census

11/09/2020

She told the young man, one of 7 million conducting China’s once-in-a-decade census, that she and her girlfriend lived together. Where the questionnaire asked for “relationship to…

Global News

Added on: 11/08/2020

Bangkok Pride Parade demands reforms and rights for sex workers

11/7/2020

The Thai LGBT community was joined by anti-government protesters in yesterday’s Pride Parade in Bangkok, which travelled from Sam Yan intersection to Silom. The parade took on…

Global News

Added on: 11/07/2020

Transgender in Bangladesh: First school opens for trans students

11/6/2020

Bangladesh’s first religious school for transgender people has opened in Dhaka. More than 150 students will study Islamic and vocational subjects free of charge at the privately-funded…

Global News

Added on: 11/07/2020

Bangladesh opens first Islamic school for transgender Muslims

11/06/2020

The LGBT community faces widespread discrimination in the South Asian country, with a colonial-era law still in place that punishes gay sex by prison terms, though enforcement…

Global News

Added on: 11/07/2020

Watch: Thai drag queen rides on protest wave to push for LGBT rights

11/06/2020

Joining the wave of youth protesters marching down the streets of Bangkok, drag queen Aunchalee Pokinwuttipob is hoping to advance a drawn out struggle for same-sex marriage…

Global News

Added on: 11/04/2020

Isko Moreno signs Manila anti-discrimination ordinance

11/03/2020

Gender discrimination is now banned in the national capital. On Thursday, October 29, Manila Mayor Isko Moreno signed Ordinance No. 8695 or the Manila LGBTQI Protection Ordinance…

Global News

Added on: 11/03/2020

Pope’s Support for Same-Sex Civil Unions Jolts Efforts for Change in Philippines

11/02/2020

A bill aiming to give same-sex couples in the Philippines spousal and property rights has languished in the House of Representatives for three years due to strong…

Global News

Added on: 11/02/2020

China’s stance on homosexuality has changed. Its textbooks haven’t.

11/01/2020

Early in college, Ou Jiayong had already learned two things. One, textbooks can be wrong. And two, it can be hard to change them — especially on…

Global News

Added on: 11/02/2020

Trans News, an online magazine for transgenders, launched

11/01/2020

The first edition of Trans News, an online magazine for transgender people, was launched at the Transgender Resource Centre here on Sunday. C. Shanmuga Sundaram, senior manager…

Global News

Added on: 11/02/2020

‘Corona-freed’ Taiwan celebrates gay pride

11/01/2020

Rainbow-masked revelers paraded through Taiwan’s capital, Taipei, Saturday, celebrating equality gains since it allowed same-sex marriages last year, despite objections from religious conservatives. President Tsai Ing-wen, re-elected…

Global News

Added on: 10/31/2020

True colours: the dating app giving gay men in China a new sense of freedom

10/30/2020

Like many gay Chinese growing up at the turn of the millennium, Duan Shuai began his long, deliberate process of coming out online. After school, he would…

Global News

Added on: 10/30/2020

National prayer breakfast canceled following spat over LGBT remark

10/29/2020

The annual National Prayer Breakfast in Taiwan will be canceled this year, the first time in 20 years, following controversy over a recent social media post by…

Global News

Added on: 10/30/2020

Queer Japan Shows the Asian Nation’s ‘LGBT Boom’ in New Trailer

10/29/2020

A new documentary, directed by Graham Kolbeins, explores the LGBTQ+ culture in Tokyo and other regions through the eyes of its leading out figures. Kolbeins, along with…

Global News

Added on: 10/28/2020

Taiwanese military mass wedding to feature its first same-sex couples

10/27/2020

Two same-sex couples are to be married in the Taiwanese army’s annual mass wedding ceremony this week, in a first after the island’s government legalised marriage equality…

Global News

Added on: 10/27/2020

Prince Azim, Son of Sultan of Brunei, Dies

10/26/2020

Prince Haji ‘Abdul’ Azim, a Hollywood film producer and the son of the Sultan of Brunei, died on Saturday morning, CNN reports. As a Hollywood insider with…