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The popularity of ‘boy-love’ series sends fans from home and abroad flocking to filming locations across the countryThere is a table in Soontaree Thiprat’s Phuket cafe that is always fully booked. Most of her customers at the Dibuk restaurant want to s…
Read MoreEvent returns for first time in many years on Sunday as city appoints governor vocal in supporting LGBT communityKath Khangpiboon has seen many joyful Pride parades abroad. She has watched in Spain and Canada as young people and families joined celebra…
Read MoreApp claimed that it could help LGBT+ people ‘return to nature’ but the tech company has now made it unavailable for downloadsAn app produced by the Malaysian government that promised to help the LGBTI community “return to nature” has been removed from…
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Read MoreLaw makes it an offence to perform so-called ‘therapy’ on anyone under 18 and comes with sentence of up to three years’ imprisonmentNew Zealand has banned conversion practices, with near unanimity, after all but eight National party members voted in fa…
Read MoreThis extraordinary tale of the desperate lengths a gay Afghan man was forced to go to in order to escape persecution is a powerful testament to human enduranceThis animated documentary from Danish film-maker Jonas Poher Rasmussen is an irresistibly mov…
Read MoreVideo clip of two men kissing in Beijing bar during Channel News Asia report hailed as ‘act of revolution’It was a Singaporean news report on the Winter Olympics opening ceremony, live from a Beijing bar filled with eager fans. Yet it was two men – who…
Read MoreAuthorities are conducting a month-long campaign to root out illegal and sensitive content during the lunar new year holiday and Winter GamesGay dating app Grindr has disappeared from multiple app stores in China as authorities tighten control of the c…
Read MoreHuman Rights Watch reports cases of mob attacks, gang-rape and death threats, with LGBTQ+ people living in fear and unable to fleeThe lives of LGBTQ+ people in Afghanistan have “dramatically worsened” under Taliban rule, according to a new survey, whic…
Read MoreSam Duckor-Jones has transformed an unused church into what he hopes will be a place for rural queerness to thrive On the wild and remote west coast of New Zealand’s South Island, an old dame is getting a hot-pink makeover, with all the synthetic flowe…
Read MoreWang Chen-wei and Chen Chun-ju sign papers after ruling allows Chen to register as parent alongside WangA married same-sex couple have become the first in Taiwan to legally adopt a child neither of them are related to, after they challenged local laws …
Read MoreWatchdog’s latest report argues autocrats around the world are getting desperate as opponents form coalitions to challenge themIncreasingly repressive and violent acts against civilian protests by autocratic leaders and military regimes around the worl…
Read MoreAdvocates welcome bill allowing for self-identification they say upholds rights for transgender and non-binary New ZealandersNew Zealand’s rainbow community will be allowed to change the sex recorded on their birth certificates without providing eviden…
Read MoreStudents and activists in group that British foreign ministry hopes will be ‘the first of many’ in coming monthsA group of LGBT+ Afghans has arrived in Britain, the first since the Taliban’s return to power in August caused panic among gay and transgen…
Read MoreGay and trans people in Afghanistan already faced stigma, but now even a call from an unknown number sparks fearLaila, a transgender woman in Afghanistan, rubs her eyes to wipe tears away. “I am terrified. It’s like a nightmare. I don’t feel safe even …
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