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...

This real-life Handsome Stewardess, Opor from Thailand, trained to be a pilot

Many flight attendants have beautiful and delicate faces, but who says flight attendants must have a standard or typical beauty? Handsome Thai flight attendant Bhoori Opor...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...