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Queerty.com
Confuse Us…
Being gay in India ain’t easy. As we’ve seen, the former British colony refuses to shed Section 377, the anachronistic law banning homosexuality. Well, the issue came up this weekend over at India’s NDTV, where journo Re…
EvolutionPublishing.com.au – By Katrina Fox
The transgender liberation movement in the West came into its own in the 1990s, but other cultures have their own take on sex and gender diversity, writes Katrina Fox.
From ancient Greek cults to Mahaya…
BangkokPost.com
(dpa) – It was Friday night in Pattaya, a Thai beach resort better known for its wild entertainment scene than its beaches, and the main attraction was the 10th Miss Tiffany’s Universe beauty pageant.
Thirty delicate contestants f…
GayCityNews.com – By Doug Ireland
The situation of the transgendered in Iran has been the subject of frequent media reports that paint a rosy picture of life for them in the Islamic Republic, and which characterize Tehran – in a recent description…
Bernama.com – By Jeswan Kaur
Kuala Lumpur (Bernama) – Their cries and pleas to be treated with respect and dignity keep falling on deaf ears. The transsexuals in Malaysia are truly children of the lesser God, to put it bluntly.
They say the gover…
Queerty.com – Michael Clyne
A Correspondence from Thailand
Bring up Thailand and someone invariably brings up underage male hustlers. Certainly there are hundreds of readily exploitable young lads, but there’s more to Thailand than just sexual to…
VueWeekly.com – Luke Foster
Edmonton’s gay scene can be such a drag.
We all know that drag queens are a gentle people. They?re always smiling, tossing ?honey?s and ?fabulous?es all over the place, cracking jokes and coming up with the wittiest of…
EvolutionPublishing.com.au
From a gay men?s leather bar to a diverse venue for queers of all sorts, The Newtown Hotel has undergone several metamorphoses over the years. Yet throughout them all, it has remained a community hotel, according to curren…
PhuketGazette – Source: Siang Tai
While some tourists jet in from around the globe specifically to enjoy the androgynous charms of Patong?s legion of ladyboy prostitutes, there are still cases cases where off-guard male tourists end up with a ladybo…
Shanghaiist.com
Thursdays just became a great night to be ?here and queer?, a fag hag or our male counterpart, a stag hag. As Shanghaiist reported earlier, Mint club has recently started a gay night once a week. Its the first predominately heterosex…