Japanese city offers municipal housing to same-sex couples

Same-sex couples in Kumamoto City will be able to move into public housing using the prefecture’s partnership certificates for LGBT people, local media has reported. In April...

More than 200,000 throng Taipei's streets for the largest-ever pride

More than 200,000 members of the LGBT community and their supporters marched, paraded, and danced across downtown Taipei on Saturday. Organizers said the parade, which was...

Thailand's new government to push for civil partnership bill

Thailand’s new government is going ahead with a controversial civil partnerships bill. The bill, first proposed by the ruling military junta in December last year, would make...

Hundreds celebrate LGBT pride in Incheon

An LGBT pride parade in the South Korean port city of Incheon was held successfully on Saturday. After last year’s Incheon Queer Culture Festival was marred by violence,...

Chi Chia-wei gifts 'pen of equality' to encourage same-sex marriage

Taiwan’s renowned LGBTI activist Chi Chia-wei has launched a campaign to encourage regional leaders to legalize same-sex marriage. Chi Chia-wei will give a replica of the pen...

Hong Kong LGBT activists launch petition after Canadian pride boots them from parade

Hong Kong LGBT activists in Canada have launched a petition after they were pushed out of the Montreal Pride Parade. Organizers of a change.org petition say this was the...

Philippine president fails to get behind anti-discrimination bill

The office of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Sunday said it was up to the nation’s Congress to decide on a long-awaited bill that would criminalize discrimination...

Taiwan newlyweds mark 100 days of marriage equality

Newlywed same-sex couples in Taiwan marked 100 days of marriage equality this weekend. Taiwan became the first country in Asia to recognize same-sex unions on 24 May. It came...

Philippine Supreme Court strikes down same-sex marriage bid

The Philippine Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a petition challenging the country's Family Code that limits marriage to between a man and a woman. The court unanimously...

'We will fly now': India marks one year since it ended gay sex ban

India on Friday marked one year since the country’s Supreme Court struck down a colonial-era law and decriminalized gay sex. Plenty of LGBT Indians and their allies took to...

Shanghai Pride urgently raising funds after unexpected expenses

China’s largest and oldest LGBT pride event, Shanghai Pride, is urgently fundraising cash after being slapped with a large fine by local authorities. “Every year, we have...

Cross-cultural marriage: Taiwanese and American couple hosts their sweet wedding in Taiwan

Janerson and Anastasia hosted their wedding in Taichung. Taiwan will soon legalize same-sex marriage. Meanwhile, Janerson and her American girlfriend Anastasia, married in...