The US capital of Washington DC became the sixth US jurisdiction to allow same-sex marriage after the Supreme Court threw out a last-minute legal challenge. Update: Buenos Aires sees second same-sex marriage, Mexico's capital city hands out its first same-sex marriage licenses
Campaigners opposing Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill have taken an online petition to parliament, signed by some 450,000 people from around the world.
The New York Times is reporting that a study, to be released in February, has shown that monogamy is not a central feature for many gay male couples; and some argue that as a result, they have “stronger, longer-lasting and more honest relationships."
A man who brought the first constitutional challenge against the ban on sodomy in Malaysia and who was appealing against his conviction of 60 years in jail and 22 strokes of rotan for sodomising a 14-year-old male lost his appeal.
Despite being shunned by his community, the devout Muslim and PhD candidate in Economics began a new area of study in Islam and homosexuality, and hopes for Muslims to rethink the possibility of consensual, supportive relationships as opposed to violent homosexual rape which he says is what the frequently referred to story of Lut (or Lot) in the Qur'an is about.
From the well publicised Valentine's Day Photo Shoot in Beijing to Shanghai Pride - the first pride festival in mainland China to the opening of the first government-sponsored gay bar in Dali, Yunnan, China Daily recaps a dozen LGBT-related events in the country.
A gay couple, whose marriage plans were thwarted by city officials in Buenos Aires earlier this month due to conflicting rulings, was successfully married by welcoming officials at the southernmost tip of South America.
The New Straits Times's Audrey Vijaindren asks if Malaysian society lacks compassion and kindness towards transgenders as the media reports on Fatine Young, a Malaysian transsexual who faces deportation (and possibly jail) to Malaysia for overstaying in Britain with her husband.
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