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Malaysia's The Star newspaper on Feb 4 reported that police raided two gay joints, a massage parlour and a fitness centre, and arrested 19 men including a 65-year-old grandfather.

The New York Times is reporting that a study, to be released in February, has shown that monogamy is not a central feature for many gay male couples; and some argue that as a result, they have “stronger, longer-lasting and more honest relationships."

Is it generally true that gay male couples place less emphasis on sexual exclusivity than opposite sex couples?

Two transgender daddies are expecting a baby boy in February.

The same weekend the Mr Gay China pageant was cancelled, a prominent AIDS activist said his NGO was forced to cancel its 16th anniversary celebrations while a state-sponsored and UN-supported radio talk show dealing with HIV issues slated to air last Saturday has been postponed.

AmfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research, an international nonprofit organisation reports that 14 members attending a support group meeting at a community organisation in Port-au-Prince were killed when the earthquake that registered 7.1 on the Richter scale hit Haiti last Tuesday.

A federal court in San Francisco is hearing a case to determine whether a 2008 voter initiative dubbed Proposition 8 violates the U.S. Constitution by creating a law that discriminates on the basis of sexual orientation.

A lawmaker who once described homosexuality as an "abomination" and "viler" than child sex abuse is the main star of a political scandal that is engulfing Northern Ireland.

The predominantly Catholic nation looks set to be the sixth European country - after Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Norway - to allow same-sex marriages although many other European countries have introduced civil partnerships.

Despite being shunned by his community, the devout Muslim and PhD candidate in Economics began a new area of study in Islam and homosexuality, and hopes for Muslims to rethink the possibility of consensual, supportive relationships as opposed to violent homosexual rape which he says is what the frequently referred to story of Lut (or Lot) in the Qur'an is about.