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Officials from Gay Games conduct inspection, while conservative group campaigns against the LGBT sporting event.

Campaign launched to encourage Chinese athletes to join 10th edition of LGBT sports festival

After labeling homosexual couples worse than animals earlier this week, the Philippine boxer eventually apologized for his comments

  Japanese lawmakers are to examine issues and challenges the community face and find ways to legally rectify it.

In what organisers have dubbed to be a first for South Asia, Nepal will host a LGBTI sports festival in Kathmandu from October 12 to 14 that will see the participation of at least 200 local amateur athletes from the LGBTI community and some 150 foreign athletes from 17 countries.

Ten publicly out gay and lesbian athletes have won medals at the Olympic Games in London, reports SBNation, a network of online sports communities. It added that the argument against coming out as it will negatively affect an athlete's performance doesn't hold as over 43% of the out athletes (10 of the 23) won a medal at the Games.

Of the 12,000 athletes at London 2012, only 23 are openly gay or bisexual, an increase from 11 at the Beijing Games in 2008.

Olympic diving icon Greg Louganis, who is openly gay, HIV positive and regarded to be one of the world's best divers will serve as a mentor for American divers for the first time since retiring from diving after the 1988 Olympics.

Darwin, the capital city of Australia's Northern Territory, has been selected to host the 3rd Asia Pacific Outgames in May 2014.

The dizzying laser rays in gay bars and the floodlights of a football pitch seem to be irreconcilably distant. One-Nil, the first gay football team in Hong Kong, attempts to bridge the two. Raymond Ko talks to Peter Sabine and Janson Mui, founding members of One-Nil.