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Fridae talks to two gay Asian artists in New York at the opening of The Male Gaze, a gay art exhibition held at The powerHouse Arena which runs till May 27. What led them to America, and what do they want to say with their work? Ng Yi-Sheng finds out.

Eighty members of the "Iranian gay community" were arrested when police raided a birthday party held at a private residence in Esfahan.

Transcript of Rev Dr Yap Kim Hao's address at the Public Dialogue on Christian Perspectives on Homosexuality and Pastoral Care organised by Safehaven on May 10.

A member of the audience demanded to know what God's natural purpose for the mouth and anus was while another linked homosexuality with bestiality, paedophilia and incest... Find out what went on at the dialogue session on Christianity and homosexuality last night.

"Be proud and strong - Renew your commitment to safe sex, no exceptions," reads a campaign poster featuring five out and proud gay Asian men from Singapore, the Philipines, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Tahiti.

In this new column by Roddy Shaw of Hong Kong's Civil Rights for Sexual Diversities, he ponders what's in store for the territory's LGBT community in the next five years after Donald Tsang's win in March this year.

Sri Lankan gay group Equal Ground has declared May 20-27 to be its gay pride week with a mini film festival, community enhancement workshops, a theatre production and parties.

Following his widely reported comments on April 21 about homosexuality and whether current gay sex laws should be retained in Singapore, Reuters news agency asked Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew about whether he thought the government should repeal its gay sex law.

Was MM Lee Kuan Yew asking a rhetorical question when he said, "Why should we criminalise it [homosexuality]?" Singapore's pioneer gay activist and Fridae columnist Alex Au picks his remarks and related media reports apart.

Nearly a decade after his widely quoted remarks about the gay issue in Singapore in a 1998 CNN interview, former PM Lee Kuan Yew again commented on the issue over the weekend - this time acknowledging that homosexuality might be genetically determined and questioned the city-state's ban on sex between men.