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Permission for LGBT march not granted due to fears of a stand-off between Christian groups and gay activists

They told Asia Catalyst that prejudice against them was so high that they were afraid of even undertaking common everyday tasks such as using public transport or leaving their home to go shopping

  Malaysian religious police arrested a lesbian couple after raiding a hotel room in Johor Baru where they were staying, media reported.

The Philippine National Police (PNP) has thrown its support behind a House measure seeking the creation of a special desk in all police stations across the country so as to tackle crimes against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people.

The LGBT Rights Network is expected to deliver their complaint to the Myanmar National Human Rights Commission tomorrow before filing a lawsuit next week after the police allegedly abused, assaulted and stripped the detainees while in custody.

Allegations of police brutality at the Sydney Mardi Gras parade last weekend have been reported as a video of a teen being handcuffed and thrown to the ground by a policeman after the parade has gone viral and from a second man who has come forward.

Ging Cristobal, Project Coordinator for the Asia Program of IGLHRC, has called the initiative a "major breakthrough" as police officers in major provinces all over the Philippines will undergo training that will include a LGBT community dialogue, and gender and sexuality workshops with human rights regional officers.

A Hong Kong court has dismissed the case in which a complainant had sought to challenge the action taken by the police to prevent a dance programme performed on the street as part of the celebration of IDAHO in May 2011.

The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) has compiled 15 documented cases of killings and rapes of lesbians; and demands an immediate police investigation into the pattern of the violent murders.

The Hong Kong High Court has accepted a man’s application to legally challenge the constitutionality of the police action at the seventh annual International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO) rally held on May 15, 2011.