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May 8, 2008
In its judgement handed down today, the Hong Kong High Court said it disagreed with the Broadcasting Authority's earlier ruling that a TV programme that discussed same sex marriage was deemed to have breached broadcasting guidelines for not including anti-gay views.
http://www.fridae.com/newsfeatures/article.php?articleid=2222&viewarticle=1&searchtype=all
The battle by the Naz Foundation India to amend Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code will continue in the Delhi High Court on May 19. Justin Ellis spoke to Sumit Baudh of the South and Southeast Asia Resource Centre on Sexuality (SSARCS) about the petition and its likelihood of success.
http://www.fridae.com/newsfeatures/article.php?articleid=2221&viewarticle=1&searchtype=all
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April 29, 2008
Banned a decade ago in Singapore, Wilde which depicts the rise and fall of the widely known gay English playwright, Oscar Wilde, will be shown at a Gala Fundraiser on May 13 to benefit Indignation, Singapore's gay pride season.
http://www.fridae.com/newsfeatures/article.php?articleid=2217&viewarticle=1&searchtype=all
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April 25, 2008
The authorities on Thursday fined a free-to-air station S$15,000 for airing a programme that showed a gay couple and their adopted baby; on the same day, a segment of the Ellen DeGeneres Show where the host condemned homophobia and the recent murder of a 15-year-old gay student was glaringly snipped by the same TV station.
http://www.fridae.com/newsfeatures/article.php?articleid=2216&viewarticle=1&searchtype=all
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April 15, 2008
The Red Cross of Thailand announced last week that it would change its screening process for blood donors following strong protest from gay rights groups reacting to an earlier announcement on a blanket ban of gay blood donors.
http://www.fridae.com/newsfeatures/article.php?articleid=2211&viewarticle=1&searchtype=all
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April 10, 2008
A Singapore cable television operator has been fined for airing a commercial that showed two women kissing.
http://www.fridae.com/newsfeatures/article.php?articleid=2209&viewarticle=1&searchtype=all
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April 5, 2008
Singapore's censor board has banned a film festival from screening four documentaries, including one made by a gay Muslim filmmaker and two others about terrorism.
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/film/story/2008/04/05/singapore-ban-documentaries.html
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April 4, 2008
"It's my life," a new multi-media campaign along with a Bahasa Indonesian website, aims to reach MSMs in Indonesia through personal stories as well as interaction with an HIV-positive MSM to highlight the safer sex message as well as care and treatment services.
http://www.fridae.com/newsfeatures/article.php?articleid=2204&viewarticle=1&searchtype=all
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April 3, 2008
Following recent raids and arrests at saunas, clubs and cruising spots, China's best known AIDS activist Wan Yanhai who circulated reports earlier this week about the governement's crackdown tells Fridae's Beijing correspondent Dinah Gardner about the local situation.
http://www.fridae.com/newsfeatures/article.php?articleid=2203&viewarticle=1&searchtype=all
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March 17, 2008
LGBT advocacy turns 30 in Indonesia: gay rights pioneer Dede Oetomo talks to Fridae correspondent Justin Ellis about life and activism in the archipelago.
http://www.fridae.com/newsfeatures/article.php?articleid=2193&viewarticle=1&searchtype=all
Filmmaker Sun Koh gathered six other directors to collaborate on an ambitious film experiment called Lucky 7. Not surprisingly, the film has some strong LGBT themes because four of the seven filmmakers are gay.
http://www.fridae.com/newsfeatures/article.php?articleid=2192&viewarticle=1&searchtype=all
Taiwan will go to the polls this Saturday to elect a successor to Chen Shui-bian of the Democratic Progressive Party who has held office since 2000. Last month, same-sex marriage came up during a televised debate between KMT's Ma Ying-Jeou of and DPP's Frank Hsieh.
http://www.fridae.com/newsfeatures/article.php?articleid=2190&viewarticle=1&searchtype=all
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March 7, 2008
Which to see' What to skip' The Singapore International Film Festival is screening more than 200 films... Fridae sifts through the lot and presents our top picks!
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February 21, 2008
China's Ministry of Health has announced that gay men will be one of several groups to be targeted in specially formulated HIV/AIDS prevention programmes as part of its 2008 national health initiatives.
http://www.fridae.com/newsfeatures/article.php?articleid=2172&viewarticle=1&searchtype=all
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February 6, 2008
Indian gay web sites and email groups are abuzz with chatter after Thane police raided a private party and arrested six men on Saturday night. While some are concerned that the raid might be part of a larger crackdown, a prominent member of a gay group has called on the community to calm down and not retreat into their closets.
http://www.fridae.com/newsfeatures/article.php?articleid=2164&viewarticle=1&searchtype=all
Hsiao Bi-Khim, a Taiwan legislator who left office last week, recounts her role in unsuccessfully sponsoring a same-sex marriage bill to be put on the assembly's agenda in 2006 and explains why the LGBT community needs to get involved politically in an exclusive interview with Fridae's Philip Hwang.
http://www.fridae.com/newsfeatures/article.php?articleid=2165&viewarticle=1&searchtype=all
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January 30, 2008
Alongside 14 panel presentations and workshops held Jan 24 to 27 in Chiangmai, 26 Asia-based member organisations of the International Lesbian and Gay Association elects its first regional board. Fridae editor Sylvia Tan reports from Chiangmai.
http://www.fridae.com/newsfeatures/article.php?articleid=2157&viewarticle=1&searchtype=all
Meet some of the gay activists and community leaders from Nepal, Mongolia, China, India and across Asia, who were in Chiangmai last weekend for the third ILGA-Asia conference, at the pride parade. Photos and text by Sylvia Tan.
http://www.fridae.com/newsfeatures/article.php?articleid=2160&viewarticle=1&searchtype=all
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January 24, 2008
The Love and Pride Film Festival is the first festival here dedicated to feature films of LGBT interests. But publicity by its organiser Golden Village is discreet and minimal.
http://www.fridae.com/newsfeatures/article.php?articleid=2151&viewarticle=1&searchtype=all
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January 16, 2008
A new, highly drug-resistant strain of the "flesh-eating" MRSA bacteria - which is known to thrive mainly in hospitals - is now being spread among gay men in San Francisco and Boston, researchers reported on Monday.
http://www.fridae.com/newsfeatures/article.php?articleid=2146&viewarticle=1&searchtype=all
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January 14, 2008
Find out which bars, clubs, lesbian venues, LGBT retailers, bookstores and events in Asia have come up tops in the first ever Fridae readers' poll.
http://www.fridae.com/newsfeatures/article.php?articleid=2145&viewarticle=1&searchtype=all
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January 11, 2008
A police conscript in Seoul came out to his colleagues and spoke against the discrimination and insults he was subjected to at work.
http://www.fridae.com/newsfeatures/article.php?articleid=2142&viewarticle=1&searchtype=all
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January 7, 2008
What's next for parents' Increasingly in China, parents of gay children are not only accepting their sexuality but trying to help other families in the same situation support each other, Dinah Gardner reports.
http://www.fridae.com/newsfeatures/article.php?articleid=2138&viewarticle=1&searchtype=all
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January 5, 2008
Following the Broadcasting Authority's ruling that a programme discussing same-sex marriage is "biased towards homosexuality" and that future programmes may be required to include anti-gay views, Joseph Cho who appeared in the programme has sought a judicial review of the matter. Civil Rights for Sexual Diversities' Nigel Collett highlights the implications of the outcome of the case.
http://www.fridae.com/newsfeatures/article.php?articleid=2137&viewarticle=1&searchtype=all