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Fridae talks to outspoken Singaporean transgender artist Marla Bendini, who first came out as a gay man at 17, about activism and art. Her current show Conversations Between Father and Son – a multimedia installation performance with paintings – pays tribute to her late father.

After being verbally abused and asked to leave a club for a second time in months, a transgender performance artist and two other transgender women have taken a stand and launched a campaign to end discrimination against their community.

It may have been a long time coming but the long awaited reform to allow same-sex couples to inherit each other's superannuation or pension may be further stalled despite being slated to take effect from July 1.

In its judgement handed down today, the Hong Kong High Court said it disagreed with the Broadcasting Authority's earlier ruling that a TV programme that discussed same sex marriage was deemed to have breached broadcasting guidelines for not including anti-gay views.

That is the tagline which is now appearing on 600 billboard panels across England, Scotland and Wales to educate the public against discrimination of gay men and lesbians.

Faced with either denying that he's gay or having to come out, a police conscript chose the latter and spoke out against the discrimination and insults he was subjected to at work.

Gay activists in Canada have hit out at new regulations that ban gay men who have been sexually active in the past five years from donating their organs for transplant.

Following a three-year fight with the city government, Philadelphia's Boy Scout chapter will have to vacate its city-subsidised headquarters for refusing to publicly renounce its ban on people who are openly gay or atheist.

A prominent gay activist in Bangkok who complained earlier this month that his application to purchase a term insurance policy was rejected solely because of his sexual orientation wants the company to categorically confirm that it does not discriminate against gays. Fridae's Bangkok correspodent Vitaya S. reports.

South Korean queers have responded forcefully to the anti-gay Christian fundamentalist lobby's efforts to remove them from a landmark non-discrimination bill currently being reviewed by lawmakers. Matt Kelley reports from Seoul.