The shows in this year's M1 Singapore Fringe Festival are all about love and family - estranged love and alternative families, that is. Fridae previews the line-up.
Johann S. Lee, author of Singapore's first gay novel Peculiar Chris, has made a breakthrough with his third book - it's far better written than any other gay novel from this country so far. Reviewer Ng Yi-Sheng attends the launch and weighs in on the story.
For the first time since headlining Fridae's finale Nation party in Phuket in 2006, DJ Tony Moran will be back in Asia for Mighty Asia's "One World, Together" party in Bangkok. Tony tells Fridae in an exclusive interview how he started out as a teenage DJ in Brooklyn, NYC and what partygoers can expect in Bangkok.
In light of the recent political situation in Bangkok, organisers of four mega-parties that are expected to attract thousands of gay men over the New Year's Day weekend, assure partygoers that the event will go ahead as planned.
Buds Theatre Company brings us a funny, uplifting play about a gay man and a lesbian woman, to be performed stand-up comedy style at Play Bar and Club, Singapore, this weekend, 20-23 November 2008.
With Ugly Betty's Marc St James and Brothers & Sisters' Kevin Walker, Scotty Wandell and Saul Holden, US broadcast television will have 16 regular LGBT characters in prime-time series this fall - the highest tally ever.
Sir Cliff Richard, who's "sick to death of the media's speculation about his sexuality" which has long been the subject of speculation, has revealed for the first time his close relationship with a former Roman Catholic priest.
Chaiwat ''Tob'' Thongsang of Bangkok Love Story fame speaks to Fridae's Vitaya Saeng-Aroon about success, taking on a gay role as a 17-year-old rookie actor and his future plans.
Newcomer Katy Perry's two singles "Ur So Gay" and "I Kissed a Girl" from her new album One of the Boys have attracted criticism from the gay press and music reviewers in the US for not sending the right message.