Russia Enacts More Anti-Gay Laws
Russian parliament passes ‘gay propaganda’ ban (via AFP) The Russian parliament on Tuesday passed two controversial bills that impose jail terms for people promoting homosexual “propaganda” to minors and those who offend religious believers amid fears the measures will be used to persecute the opposition to Vladimir Putin. Ahead of the vote, gay activists…
Ministers, Mayor Join Croatia Pride March
Ministers, mayor join Croatia gay march (via AFP) Two ministers and a mayor joined 500 people at a Gay Pride march on Saturday in Croatia’s second city Split, where anti-gay violence marred a similar demonstration two years ago. Hundreds of riot police escorted the demonstrators, who were demanding full equality including marriage for gay couples.…
Small Pride As Marriage Ban Looms
Romania stages Gay Pride as same-sex marriage ban looms (via AFP) Some 400 people took to the streets of Bucharest for a Gay Pride parade on Saturday but a controversial amendment to the constitution banning same-sex marriage overshadowed the event. “It is a sadder parade because of the amendment”, Accept president Florin Buhuceanu told AFP, [...]
Huge Turnout For Tel Aviv Pride
Tens of thousands celebrate Gay Pride in Tel Aviv (via AFP) Tens of thousands of people gathered in Tel Aviv on Friday for Israel’s annual Gay Pride parade, which attracts visitors from all over the world, this year including France’s first gay married couple. Gay, lesbian and transgender activists and sympathisers, draped in rainbow flags, [...]
Asiaout is proud to add the Friends Zone to it’s popular group of websites which originally debuted on 14 February 2013. The Friends Zone is a free membership site, where all GLBT can make new friends, interact in various ways, and discuss issues, fun or serious, which affect our community. GLBT really does mean [...]
Malaysians have been presented with a rare opportunity at the upcoming General Election to put a stop to the hatred and repression being sponsored by the ruling United Malays National Organisation under Prime Minister Najib Razak. For those who might not be aware of it, the Malaysian government has been, for a quite a long [...]
The next few months sees an amazing line up of Pride and other GLBT community events taking place across Asia. Thailand’s Songkran festival sees the return of the hugely successful annual “Gcircuit Songkran” held over April 12-14 in some of Bangkok’s finest hotels, and billed as ‘Five mega Parties’ – ‘the biggest circuit parties in [...]
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