A Pakistani government division is using transgender women as a means to embarrass people who will not pay their taxes, according to The New York Times >>>

Robyn Garner, Executive Director of the Mongolian LGBT Centre, tells Fridae more about the new documentary which highlights the under-reported threats and hate crimes taking place against the LGBT community. >>>

The incidence of the third gender or transgender is not known in Pakistan. An estimate of transgender persons in India is around 1:400. Pakistan being in the same ethno-geographical class may have parallel results. The discriminatory attitude is even shown in statistical divisions as repor >>>

Nepal could be about to legalize same-sex marriage, and it would be due to Sunil Pant, Nepal's first openly gay parliamentarian and the man leading the gay rights revolution in Asia >>>

Gay rights activist and faculty member of Indian Institute of Technology in Hyderabad sacked because of sexual orietnaton >>>

India now has its first all-gay bookseller: Queer-Ink.com, an online bookstore, recently launched in Malad, a suburb of Mumbai, the Hindustan Times reports. >>>

Irish politicians have passed a bill granting gay and lesbians couples the right to civil partnerships. >>>

The Jakarta Post Editorial (June 30, 2010) focused on the public perception of apathy, inaction and even complicity of the State and law enforcement agencies in the deepening “culture of thuggery” in Indonesia. The situation requires 'due diligence' on the part of the State in order to cu >>>

Syrian authorities have raided more than four different private gay parties over five weeks between March and April, arresting more than 25 men on their last raid. Indictments have been officially submitted against them; most of the arrested guys are charged with "having a homosexual act", >>>

The Indonesian Bishops' Council (KWI) has declared the controversial marriage of transgender Alterina Hofan illegal. This case revolves around the legal loopholes around the status of an intersex man. Prosecutors have indicted Alterina on charges that he switched his gender to male on his  >>>