Sultry sex symbol Angelina Jolie is said to be almost every dyke's wet dream, but her heartthrob of a husband Brad Pitt is too an object of dyke desire. Dinah Gardner finds out why some lesbians dig men like Brad, Johnny Depp, Wang Li Hom and Takeshi Kaneshiro.
Defined as being the "practice of having a single mate during a period of time," monogamy has been a passionately debated concept within the gay community and whether the practice can be used as a benchmark of commitment and/or morality.
Fan Wu, the author of February Flowers, tells Fridae's Dinah Gardner about her new book which charts the relationship between two very different university girls against the backdrop of the Chinese Cultural Revolution where sex education and discussion was virtually non-existent.
Stigma greatly compromises the effectiveness of any HIV prevention work anywhere. In the second of his essay, Dr Tan Chong Kee looks at successful examples of pragmatic public health policies worldwide and what Singapore - both the government and the people - can do. Part 2 of 2.
De-stigmatisation campaigns, aimed at changing attitudes towards homosexuals and People Living With HIV and AIDS (PLWHA), are what Singapore needs to better combat the spread of HIV because stigma greatly compromises the effectiveness of any HIV prevention work, says Dr Tan Chong Kee. Part 1 of 2.
Singapore's GLBT Pride Season comes to a close this week with We, the Citizens: TalkingCock in Parliament, a light-hearted forum for people of all orientations, hosted by husband-and-wife filmmakers and satirists Colin Goh and Woo Yen Yen.
Fifteen Singaporeans come out in a groundbreaking book to be launched next week. Fridae talks to Sheila Rajamanikam and Nicholas Deroose about coming out.
In this Read My Lips column, Dinah Gardner looks at the different but similar butch-femme-andro labels used in lesbian communities in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand and the United States.
It is especially hard for gay men to grapple with AIDS because people still think that AIDS is a gay disease. But the more we try to dissociate from it, the more it haunts us like an evil spirit. Tan Chong Kee writes.
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