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Taiwan is getting ready to host its first International Queer Film Festival which organizers say is an endeavor to showcase LGBT themes to the Taiwanese people as well as highlight awareness about issues the community faces.

The Thai LGBT community encounters great social stigma and limited job opportunities despite the country’s tourism authority actively promoting Thailand as a gay-friendly tourist destination, says a recent international report.

The first openly gay Indian American official in the Obama administration has quit his position as White House’s liaison to the LGBT community.

A Thailand-based NGO working for gay, transgender and other migrant workers affected by HIV is urging the ASEAN Health Ministers presently meeting in Vietnam to commit to a compassionate public health response to migrant workers affected by HIV, tuberculosis and malaria.

Bangladesh says it will veto the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) proposal to provide rights for lesbian and gay people.

The Indian federal government has asked the Supreme Court to modify its landmark ruling that accepted transgender people as a socially and economically backward caste eligible to various affirmative action accorded to other marginalized sections of society

Student activists have petitioned 112 key universities urging them to incorporate equality on campus and curb discrimination against LGBT people gay.

A former American academic specializing in gender and sexuality studies has pleaded guilty to raping and molesting underage boys in the Philippines.

  A gay rabbi from England living in Israel was installed as the leader of Adat Shalom Emanuel in Rehovot, the only non-Orthodox synagogue in the city.

  Malaysian religious police arrested a lesbian couple after raiding a hotel room in Johor Baru where they were staying, media reported.