The LGBT Rights Network is expected to deliver their complaint to the Myanmar National Human Rights Commission tomorrow before filing a lawsuit next week after the police allegedly abused, assaulted and stripped the detainees while in custody.
Watch "From Me to We: 5 Years with the Beijing LGBT Center" which chronicles the beginning and evolution of the non-profit organisation which provides health services, organises social activities and advocacy programs to increase the visibility of the LGBT community within Chinese society and to raise consciousness among LGBT individuals.
Jiyi Wu (吳芷儀) and Abbygail Wu (吳伊婷), who are both transgender women and describe themselves as a genderqueer couple, are fighting to have their marriage reinstated after the country’s Ministry of the Interior (MOI) earlier this year stripped the pair of their legally married status.
Join a panel discussion in Bangkok featuring LGBT activist Anjana Suvarnananda, Danai Linjongrat of the Rainbow Sky Association, UNESCO Bangkok's Prempreeda Pramoj Na Ayutthaya and MP Wiratana Kalayasiri who will discuss the draft law and Thai society's attitude toward same-sex unions. Members of the public are welcome.
The Bangkok Post last week quoted a health report that said that increasing number of HIV infections are among "white collar, professional and well-educated" gay men.
Penang's state assembly last week debated an assemblyman's proposal to set up a committee to oversee the welfare and needs of 'Mak Nyahs' (transgenders) in the northern state.
In addition to hiring a senior partner from a prominent Singapore law firm, the plaintiffs have applied to have England's former attorney-general Queen's Counsel Lord Peter Goldsmith act as co-counsel in their appeal.
Syphilis cases among men who have sex with men (MSM) have more than doubled from 5% in 2005 to 12.5% in 2011 while the annual prevalence of HIV also rose "significantly" from 24.5% in 2005 to 29.4% in 2011 among MSM.
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