Rice and potato queens have often been the subject of discussion on Fridae and elsewhere. What about rice and potato queen dykes? Lesbian columnist Dinah Garder explains why "Asian girls just do it for her" and attempts to uncover the differences between gay men and lesbians who profess a preference for a certain race.
Launched last Saturday, the Thai Rainbow Archives project aims to archive Thailand's gay, lesbian and transgender heritage. Douglas Sanders has more on the project and history of gay magazines in Thailand.
No stranger to the lesbian community in Singapore, Iris Judotter has become the first out lesbian to launch an album. Catch her at The Arts House this Saturday singing original songs from her self-produced and released debut album, The Importance of Being!
According to a new US survey, lesbians have been found to be twice more likely to be overweight or obese than straight women. At the same time, the study also revealed that lesbians were more at ease with their bodies than straight women. Dinah Gardner has lesbians weigh in on the issue.
For the third year running, Sri Lanka's Equal Ground presented its annual weeklong celebration of gay pride in a country where homosexuality is still a criminal offence. Roscoe gives us a run down of the event.
Fridae speaks to Singaporean lesbian artist Genevieve Chua, whose first solo exhibition, As Brutal As - which explores themes of psychological horror and sexuality - opens this Friday.
Not only is the 33-year-old Osaka's youngest ever MP; come July, she will also be the country's first openly gay politician to run for for a seat in the House of Councillors, the upper house of the Diet of Japan.
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