Passed by the provincial legislature in October 2009, the bylaw – which the Governor has refused to sign and officials in Jakarta have asked to be withdrawn – would punish homosexuals with 100 cane lashes.
Director of the Melbourne Underground Film Festival says he intends to stage a ''public disobedience freedom of speech event'' by screening LA Zombie in defiance of the federal censor.
Costa Rica's top court on Tuesday ruled that a planned public referendum on same-sex civil unions is illegal thus blocking the electoral tribunal from holding a referendum that would have let voters decide if same-sex civil unions should be allowed in the largely Roman Catholic country.
Some 30 participants, both Chinese and expatriates, gathered at the UK Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo at a LGBT meeting organised by the British Embassy in Beijing and the British Consulate-General Shanghai.
In what's believed to be the first case of its kind, a gay man in China has filed a lawsuit against a Beijing Red Cross donor centre after it refused to accept his blood deposit because of his sexual orientation.
LA-based photographer Jeff Sheng discusses his recent project "Don't Ask, Don't Tell", art and activism, and how artists like himself can engage in social documentary to "bring to light a voice that nobody else has ever heard before."
The BBC highlights the challenges faced by gays, bisexuals and transgenders in Indonesia as a growing number of radical Muslim groups are actively campaigning against them.
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