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Despite the government's pro-gay stance, society's marginalizing and prejudice against men who have sex with men put them at a greater risk of contracting HIV, says UNAIDS.

A Beijing court has agreed to hear a case against a Chinese clinic offering gay "conversion therapy" a move that activists hope will usher in an era or tolerance.

A Macau-based LGBT voluntary organization is urging the Portuguese president to pressure the Macau government into adopting laws allowing marriages between same-sex couples.

A public service video campaign using transgender women to get motorists to use their seat belts while driving on Indian roads has gone viral on the Internet.

Thailand is becoming a favorable destination for the LGBT people wanting to make use of new surrogacy guidelines that give them a chance of being parents.

Beijing police May 7 detained as many as nine civil society activists meeting for a seminar to discuss obstacles facing gay groups wishing to register as nongovernmental organizations in China.

Pasuquin town in northern Philippines has this year once again conducted its gay pride festival, doing so annually since 1972 and making it the oldest recorded gay pride parade in Asia.

ShanghaiPRIDE, will, besides its annual parties, organize activities ranging from debates promoting equal rights, LGBT community building, a film and theater festival and a drive to collect money for HIV-related charities.

The Sultan of Brunei of has decreed into law the strict Islamic Sharia penal code that will eventually lead to death by stoning for crimes of a sexual nature, including those of same-sex relations.

The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights April 30 has launched a Bollywood-style  music video to promote its Free & Equal campaign for LGBT people.