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Community Business, a non-profit organisation, is planning to produce a LGBT Resource Guide to help companies create inclusive workplaces for LGBT employees in Hong Kong. If you have any observations about issues relating to LGBT employees in Hong Kong, you can share your views in the online survey.

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.

Les Peches founders Abby Lee and Betty Grisoni, who met in a straight club in Singapore before moving to Hong Kong in 2001, talks to Fridae.com's Hong Kong correspondent over lunch about community building and how they came to organise the two events that they currently run.

Is homophobia a real problem in the African Commonwealth, thus contradicting the high human-rights standards the association is supposed to uphold?

Gay and lesbian filmmakers honoured at Singapore's inaugural Short Film Awards.

'Family values' is a term much bandied about by anti-gay 'pro-family' groups who accuse gays of being anti-family, Aniruddh Vasudevan, director of the Shakti Resource Center, Chennai shares a conversation he recently had with his parents in a local newspaper.

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."

The film, which promises to be Bollywood's boldest portrayal of a serious and explicitly sexual relationship between two men, is set to test tolerance in Indian society after the Delhi High Court last year legalised same-sex sexual relations.

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.