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Thursday, June 26
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Source: Times of India , Deccan Herald SILIGURI, India -- It's a bizarre story that will probably become the stuff of jokes, but more significantly becomes yet another in an unfortunate series showing the sometimes tragic effect of societal repression of LGBT expression. A resident of Rangapani, India near Siliguri filed a police complaint against another local man with whom he said he'd had a gay relationship. Dipu Ghosh told police that he was encouraged by his partner, Ajit Mondal, to undergo for a sex change. Ghosh said in his complaint that Mondal had promised to marry him after the...
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Wednesday, June 25
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Source: Bangkok Post 'Being a lesbian is tiring," Chantalak Raksayoo said in an inteview with Bangkok Post 's Outlook section, "but one should take pride in one's self. And I'm proud of who I am." Chantalak, 36, is a lesbian activist who believes in the power of media to create public awareness on gay and lesbian rights and, more importantly, to help gays and lesbians feel confident about themselves and to realise their rights to live their lives as equals in society. Chantalak is the founder of Sapaan, an alternative media source for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender...
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Saturday, May 17
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Source: Times of India CHENNAI, India -- Two women, who allegedly shared a lesbian relationship, committed suicide by setting themselves ablaze after their families abused and tried for over a decade to separate them. The police recovered the charred bodies of the women, who died hugging each other, from the residence of one of the women at Sathangadu, near Thiruvotriyur, on Saturday, Times of India reports. Family members noticed thick smoke emanating from the house where the women stayed the previous night. They peeped through the window and saw the bodies lying as if they had died hugging each...
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Monday, May 12
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Source: The Star PENANG, Malaysia -- In their third raid on a fitness and sauna center since November, police detained 14 men Saturday at what they called "a front for gay activities." George Town OCPD Asst Comm Azam Abd Hamid said six men, all naked, were caught in three toilets while the others were found simply "patronizing the joint" as a report in theStar online newspaper puts it. He said the suspects, aged between 20 and 30, had been remanded to assist in investigations into what the commander called "immoral activities at the center". In the 6pm raid on Saturday...
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Monday, May 05
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Source: AFP via Inquirer.net , Reuters , Manila Times MANILA -- The head of Manila's Roman Catholic church has warned parishes that they will be punished if they allow gay men to play female saint in a popular local festivals called "Santacruzan" or Santa Cruz de Mayo. "Gays should not be allowed to participate in Santacruzan since it defeats the true meaning of the celebration," Cardinal Gaudencio Rosales told the church-run Radio Veritas station on Monday. The prelate said he'll refuse to say mass at any parish that allows gay men to participate in the ceremonies as...
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Thursday, May 01
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Source: Times of India , AFP , IANS via Thaindian.com The wind of change that swept through Nepal in the form of a historic election this month, dethroned its king, once revered as god, and instead gave power to the former Maoist guerrillas, will also see a fresh social revolution with the first gay representative being nominated to the new constituent assembly, reports Times of India . "We have chosen Sunil Babu Pant as our candidate to ensure the rights of gay and other minority groups," Ganesh Shah, general secretary of the Communist Party of Nepal (United), told AFP. Shah’s CPN-U...
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Friday, April 25
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Source: Hollywood Reporter , Variety Asia HONG KONG – Singapore regulators have fined state TV broadcaster MediaCorp TV Channel 5 for what the regulators said was a show "promoting homosexuality". MediaCorp TV Channel 5 has been fined S$15,000 (US$11,072) by the Media Development Authority (MDA) for airing an episode of the series, "Find and Design" that it saw as "normalizing" and "promoting" a gay lifestyle. In the episode concerned, aired January 13, the host helped a gay couple to transform their game room into a new nursery for their adopted baby. "The...
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Wednesday, April 02
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Source: Bangkok Post , Wikipedia , Reuters A woman (left) chats with katoey at a Bangkok cafe Flickr photo by Bart Morane The Public Health Ministry has temporarily banned testicle-removal surgery at hospitals and clinics nationwide following a call by a gay rights group to step up measures against such commercial castration for young transsexuals. Pipat Yingseree, chairman of the ministerial committee overseeing hospitals and clinics, said yesterday the decision would be enforced from today. ''Despite having their parents' consent for the surgery, panel members still unanimously agreed...
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Sunday, March 23
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Source: Al Jacinto, Arab News , GMA News ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines -- Unidentified gunmen shot dead a gay salon owner in front of his horrified friends in the largely Muslim province of Sulu, about 950 kilometers south of Manila, police said Saturday. Police said Romeo Lim, 25, the son of an army soldier, was killed while having dinner on a friend's house on Friday in the village of Asturias in Jolo town. He was shot several times and died instantly, said Inspector Usman Pingay, the town's chief of police. "We still do not know the motives of the killing or who were behind the murder...
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Monday, March 03
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Source: Korea Herald and Korea Times Korea's first openly lesbian politician will run for a parliamentary seat in the April general elections. "I want to carry out political activities not for 1 percent of the citizens but 100 percent," said Choi Hyun-suk, 51, at a press conference Monday. Choi will run on the ticket of the New Progressive Party, which recently split away from the Democratic Labor Party, "There are people who ask if a divorced lesbian is qualified to become a lawmaker," she said. "But actually, a minority person who is in a difficult situation can best...
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Thursday, February 28
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Source: OneIndia , NDTV Movies Indian actor Kushal Punjabi insists he doesn't mind being passed over for a role as a gay fashion designer in a major upcoming Bollywood film. Really. He doesn't care at all. The upcoming Bollywood feature, Fashion , continues to bring non-gay actors out of the role-closet. The film first prompted weeks of speculation about which actors might be willing to "play gay" for the film that features two flamboyant gay designers. The hyperactive Bollywood fan press -- which has printed stories about every aspect of the film's progress -- now reports...
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Tuesday, February 26
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Source: Reuters KATHMANDU (Reuters) - At least five Nepali gay men are contesting this year's elections in the hope of shattering taboos in the conservative nation, a gay candidate said. Homosexuality is effectively illegal in Nepal under a law banning "unnatural sex". Offenders can be jailed for up to a year. Gay and transgender Nepalis complain that they are often excluded from jobs and schools because of their sexuality, and sometimes are victims of assault or rape, including by police. "It is a prejudiced society," said Sunil Babu Pant, founder of a leading gay rights...
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Wednesday, February 20
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Source: Xinhua BEIJING, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) -- China is to work out a HIV/AIDS prevention policy this year to combat the rising incidence of HIV/AIDS in the country's gay population, the Ministry of Health said here Wednesday. The policy will incorporate detailed HIV/AIDS prevention measures for MSM (men who have sex with men) including extending the use of condoms, according to the ministry's work plan for disease prevention and control in 2008. China has decided to intensify its AIDS intervention campaign on MSM by carrying out AIDS prevention training among the gay population nationwide...
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Wednesday, January 16
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Source: China Daily Three gay Chinese tell China Daily of the challenges they face, and their hopes for a day when they will no longer be judged. A 33 year old man who has now lived with his partner for six years tells the paper's reporter of his first visit to a gay bar: "I was shocked to see so many people there. It seemed like a totally different world, where people all looked so relaxed, chatting and smiling." Another of the stories: Name: Tong Ge Age: 57 Occupation: Writer and independent researcher Tong Ge was married to a woman for more than 20 years, and has raised a son....
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Monday, January 14
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Source: Financial Times Lehman Brothers and other international investment banks are actively recruiting gay and lesbian students who aspire to be bankers. Such is the enthusiasm among investment banks that some have banded together to give their Asian recruiting events a higher profile, taking it in turn to organise lectures, dinners and other events around a gay or lesbian theme. In November, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, Lehman, Merrill Lynch and UBS co-sponsored a cinema evening in Hong Kong which featured The Bubble , a 2006 film about the gay relationship between a Palestinian and an Israeli...
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Monday, January 14
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Source: Press release SANEPR.com Indian activist/journalist Ashok Row Kavi photo: Tribune India, 2003 The interview isn't currently available from the Indian lifestyle magazine's website , but according to a press release SUTRA magazine offers an interview with Ashok Row Kavi, described as being "virtually the only openly gay man in India to speak out on the HIV issue there." In the introduction to a 1999 interview with Row Kavi , author Perry Brass says of Row Kavi, "He has been called the 'Larry Kramer of India,' though in person and in print he is more humane,...
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Sunday, January 13
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Source: Times of India The character of a homosexual was often used in films either to provide the fun quotient or as an effort to deal with a sensitive subject. This was because homosexuals were treated as queers. Now the scene is all set to change. Increasingly, the society has begun accepting them. With actors like Samir Soni [see Qnews summary ] , Harsh Chhaya [see Qnews summary ] and Irrfan happily playing the gay character, it is being felt that Bollywood is willing to change its stance. Madhur Bhandarkar, who first showed gays as normal people in his film Page 3 , strongly feels that people...
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Saturday, January 12
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Source: Sify.com [Ed. note: Trying to make sense of the Bollywood gossip that makes its way onto US search engines is a bit of a stretch for us. Last week, there was a flurry of stories about an actor named Harsh Chhaya [see Qnews summary ], a fellow said to have a "serious" yet "experimental" image as an actor in both TV and movie roles. He had, the stories said, convinced noted director Madhur Bhandarkar to cast him in the role of a gay fashion designer in Bhandarkar's upcoming film Fashion . OK. But this week, there is a new flurry of stories about a different actor,...
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Sunday, January 06
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Source: compiled by seaQwa's Qnews from report by Times of India Surat, Gujarat -- A new government mandate requires agencies given funding for HIV/AIDS services to offer information and services to gay men and men who have sex with men (MSM), reports Times of India. Some of the non governmental agencies (NGOs) that had received funding for HIV-prevention projects in the western Indian city of Surat have given up their projects because it goes against their ideology, according to the report. "There are some organizations which admitted that they would prefer to back out from such projects...
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Saturday, January 05
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Source: Mid-Day and Sify Harsh Chhaya The big Bollywood news of the day is that a much-anticipated role in a much-anticipated film is to be played by an actor far from type-cast for the role. Actor Harsh Chhaya is to play a gay fashion designer in Madhur Bhandarkar's upcoming film, 'Fashion'. Harsh, critically aclaimed as a television actor who tackled all types of roles, plays a gay for the first time. The role will be far different from what his fans have seen him doing so far. Fashion is the latest in a series of real-life films from the director. So far, the series includes Chandni...
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Thursday, January 03
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Source: Korea Times and PinkNews An officer assigned to the riot police has openly declared his homosexuality and vowed to fight social prejudice against "sexual minorities." On Dec. 30, Private Kim Hyun-jong (not his real name) posted an article about his homosexuality on the online riot police community Web site. He is the second policeman from the squad to have openly come out after YooJeong Min-shik identified himself as being gay and refused to finish his service term for which he was prisoned in 2006. In South Korea, men can serve in the riot police as part of their mandatory military...
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Saturday, December 22
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Source: Hindustan Times With its political parties failing to provide good governance and hold elections, and the Maoists continuing with violence despite signing a peace pact, Nepal's gay community has emerged as the only winners of the year that saw the country suffering from a series of dismal failures. The most remarkable gain for the homosexual, lesbian and transgender community came at the end of the year with the Supreme Court acknowledging their right to be treated at par with men and women. On Friday, Nepal's top court, in answer to a public interest litigation (PIL) filed seven...
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Friday, December 21
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Source: Associated Press via IHT and Reuters KATMANDU, Nepal -- In a landmark verdict aimed at legitimizing homosexuality, Nepal's top court ruled Friday that the government must create new laws to protect gay rights and change current ones that might be tantamount to discrimination, an official said. Nepali men and women who identify themselves as transgender say they are discriminated against in jobs and education, and do not get government identification certificates with their gender as the "third sex" instead of male or female. Gay rights activists say they have difficulties...
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