Asia

Despite significant geographical and linguistic differences, Australia, Europe, and Asia share at least one strong bond – plenty of activists dedicated to equality for LGBTQ+ people.

“I feel blessed” to have a supportive family.

The bill would change the legal definition of marriage from between “male and female parties” to between “two parties.”

Gays are a contagion, declares the banner in bold red and black lettering that hangs on the sidewalk of a bustling neighborhood in Indonesia’s capital.

The hack exposes the names of users who live in places where homosexual is punishable by death.

Human Rights Watch on Monday criticized a Malaysian Islamic court for fining nine Muslim transgender women for cross-dressing and jailing two of them for a month.

A court in the South Korean capital Seoul ruled Tuesday that police violated the law when they banned a pride march to be held June 28 as the culmination of the Korean Queer Cultural Festival, according to a press release from organizers.

With a landmark vote by the assembly of Tokyo’s Shibuya ward, the district famous as a mecca for trendy youngsters became the first locale in Japan to recognize same sex partnerships as the “equivalent of a marriage,”

A Singapore court fined a prominent dissident blogger on Wednesday for questioning the timing of two constitutional challenges to the city-state’s ban on gay sex.

A Philippine court entered a not guilty plea Monday for a U.S. Marine charged with murdering a transgender Filipino, allegedly after he discovered her biological sex when they checked into a hotel.

Thailand’s parliament has passed legislation passed a law banning foreigners and same-sex couples from seeking surrogacy services.

The Philippines has rejected an appeal by a U.S. Marine that it drop a murder charge against him in the death of a transgender Filipino woman last year.

Although same-sex marriages can now take place under a revised law which went into effect New Year’s Day, the government still does not recognize them or provide legal protections in cases of disputes.

Just nine months after a court in India ruled that transgender individuals could be recognized as a legal third gender, a city in central India has elected the country’s first transgender mayor.

A proposed amendment to Taiwan’s Civil Code that aims to legalize same-sex marriage is under debate Monday in a legislative committee.

Li Yinhe’s revelation that she’s been living with a transgender man for 17 years has sparked a rare public discussion about China’s largely invisible and marginalized transgender community.

A clinic has been ordered to comensate to a gay man who sued it for administering electric shocks intended to make him heterosexual, believed to be China’s first case involving conversion therapy.

Prosecutors say there is “probable cause” that Marine Pfc. Joseph Scott Pemberton killed Jennifer Laude in a Philippines motel room in October.

As the U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam, Ted Osius is the seventh openly LGBT person named as an ambassador under the Obama administration.

BEIJING — By day, Ma Baoli was a high-ranking officer in a seaside city police force. By night, he ran a website for gay people to share experiences and on which he spoke under a pseudonym about the pressure he faced being gay himself. After several years, the police force found out and told him he could not run a private website that was…