ASIA: Regional MSM Archive
Asia
East Asia
Southeast Asia
- Thailand: Money-Boys in Thailand: Sex, Work, and Stigma During the XV International AIDS Conference
- Vietnam: Treatment of homosexuals, including legislation, availability of state protection and support services
- Cambodia: Bloggers discuss LGBT issues
- Indonesia: Being Gay, Muslim and Indonesian
- Thailand: Boxer is banned from national boxing squad for three months after appearing in gay magazine
- Malaysia: 32 arrested in drug raid at "gay party"
- Thailand: Bye Bye Bangkok Pride: Unnoticed and unmourned, the pride parades in Thailand have come to an end. What happened?
- Thailand: 'Third Sex' Wants Acceptance, Legal Support
- South and Southeast Asia: TARSHI releases the latest issue of In Plainspeak, focusing on sexuality and rights
- Cambodia: A gay-friendlier Kingdom: The country's openness to homosexuality contributes to its growing reputation as a destination where gay tourists can travel without fear of prejudice
- Thailand: Purple Pride on the Page: On-the-ropes gay mag industry fights for mainstream media acceptance
- Thailand: Chiang Mai gay pride parade called off
- Thailand: Veteran gay activist slams Chiang Mai's second pride parade
- Indonesia: BBC photo series portrays the country's Waria
- Cambodia: "Sometimes I get regular women, sometimes I hire lady-boys"
- Malaysia: Malaysian police target gay people in Saturday afternoon raids
- Malaysia: In Malaysia fatwa condemns tomboys
- Thailand: Thailand's lady-boys are in a class of their own, at last
- South and Southeast Asia: In Plainspeak, the Asian publication that "talks about basic as well as complicated and even contentious issues of sexuality and rights in simple (but not simplistic) language", releases its most recent issue
- Cambodia: Ethnography of Male to Male Sexuality in Cambodia (pdf)
- Laos: Looking for the other side of Laos: Land of ancient treasures and UXO has emerging gay scene
- Indonesia: Indonesian gay rights groups protest media bias in serial murder case
- Cambodia: Phnom Penh's flourishing drag scene
- In the spirit of merdeka: Malaysians hold first ever sexuality rights festival
- Indignation 2008 (Singapore’s LGBT pride season): A recap
- U.S. grants asylum in Indonesian transgender case
- Gay rights groups slam media over bias
- The Dynamics and Contexts of Male-to-Male Sex in Indonesia and Thailand
South Asia
- India: Professor 'commits suicide' after students launch gay sex sting
- India: Activists say Delhi High Court's judgment has hardly made any difference in rate of gay hate crimes in Delhi
- India: Where gays hide their pride
- Nepal: Pink Everest - Nepal appeals for gay tourists
- Nepal: One nation, a hundred languages, three genders
- India: Policing Morality at Aligarh Muslim University: An Independent Fact Finding Report (pdf)
- India: University professor suspended for being "Gay"
- India: University administration hired TV crew to catch professor having gay sex in own home
- Pakistan: Harassed, intimidated, abused: but now Pakistan's hijra transgender minority finds its voice (includes slideshow)
- India: Thane thief would blackmail his homosexual partners
- Afghanistan: Afghan Men Struggle With Sexual Identity, Study Finds
- India: Transgender activist Lakshmi Narayan Tripathi talks about Super Queen, her multi-city beauty contest, which seeks to bring the Kinnar community to the public eye
- India: Members of transgender community boycott transgender beauty pageant
- Nepal: Sexual minorities still struggling
- India: Male sex workers in India (photo essay)
- Pakistan/South Korea: Pakistani gay man gets refugee status in S. Korea
- South Asia: Trikone video diaries, capturing the lives of queer South Asians, releases latest installment: "Meet the Parents" (video)
- Bangladesh: An imam accepts his homosexuality and learns to negotiate his complicated social environment; an in-depth look at MSM life in Bangladesh
- India: First Ever Transgender Miss India Crowned
- Pakistan: Situation of homosexuals in urban centres, particularly in Islamabad, Karachi and Lahore (December 2007 - November 2009)
- Bangladesh: Glimpses of Hijra Dance Event in Dhaka, 2009 (video)
- India: At theological roundtable, church urged not to eschew sexual minorities
- Iran: December issue of Neda, the Iranian queer online magazine, now available (Farsi) (pdf)
- India: NDTV Hindu program, Chennai Speaks Out, discusses homosexuality in Chennai with local community leaders and live audience (Part 1,Part 2,Part 3,Part 4)
- Pakistan: Mob kills elderly man for being ‘homosexual’
- Bangladesh: Shades of Grey: Conceiving Sexual Agency
- India: NDTV on the Campaign for Open Minds and Homophobia in Healthcare (video 1, video 2)
- Iran: Iranian transgenders are not secure in Iran
- Maldives: Islamic foundation condemns Minivan News for publishing letter on homosexuality
- South Asia: Trikone San Francisco launches new series of monthly video diaries capturing the lives of LGBT South Asians
- India: In the pink of wealth: Entrepreneurs are tapping into the gay market, realizing the power of the pink rupee client
- India: NDTV Special Report: Married in Public, Gay in Private
- India: TimeOut Mumbai releases "The LGBT Issue" online, features 7 articles onwhat it means to be queer in Mumbai
- Pakistan: 'Happy and Gay' in Pakistan?
- Bangladesh: Gay, straight or MSM? In Bangladesh, how you define your sexuality can depend on class, education and family circumstances
- India: A forum of Protestant and Orthodox churches in India comes out in support of gay rights
- India: An Indian model of queerness: In the creation of a queer community, India can learn from the 'west' while retaining distinct local characteristics
- India: Gay movement no longer limited to metros, big cities
- India: In wake of 377 ruling, gay help lines ringing off the hook for advice on coming out
- Iran: For Gay Iranian Refugees, a Matter of Life or Death
- India: Homosexuality not a taboo in Jharkhand tribe
- India: Gay community turns assertive in workplace
- India: 8-city survey reveals public's changing attitudes toward homosexuality
- India: Delhi decriminalization sparks gay marriages beyond the Capital
- Pakistan: Country's lone gay writer wrests pen
- India: Ancient India didn't think homosexuality was against nature
- India: "We don’t encourage transgenders" A look at transgender employment in Tamil Nadu
- India: Akhil Katyal asks, "On the Eve of Pride: Are We Going the Right Way?" (Commentary)
- India: Chennai LGBT express appreciation for local government support, call for better treatment from medical practitioners
- India: India woos gay tourists
- India: Anti-gay protesters appeal to Pope, Imam, Shankaracharya and Police Commissioner to stop Delhi Queer Pride
- Iran: No Man's Land: Gay Iranian refugees are caught between persecution at home and alienation abroad
- India: The birth of Delhi Queer Pride
- India: A change in law will do no good without a change in society: Indian gays
- India: Latest Recordings on Gay Bombay Radio (pdf)
- India: Gay Bombay launches "South Asia's First LGBT Radio"
- India: Gay Bombay launches "South Asia's First LGBT Radio"
- India: Vaishnavism (a large Hindu denomination) and homosexuality
- Nepal: Nepal becoming haven for persecuted LGBT
- India: Time Out Bangalore releases Queer Issue examining the lives of local LGBT
- India: Tradition, modernity and activism: A look at Tamil Nadu's Transgender community
- Iran: Unbearable witness: how Western activists (mis)recognize sexuality in Iran
- South and Southeast Asia: TARSHI releases the latest issue of In Plainspeak, focusing on sexuality and rights
- Pakistan: Out of the Closet, at Gunpoint: Gay, Muslim and coming out to Mom and Dad
- India: Man by day, woman by night
- Nepal: Nepal's sexual minorities on the move
- India: Hidden worlds: Photoreportage on male sex workers
- Iran: Iran's Hidden Homosexual History
- India: Men becoming visible: more light shed on men who have sex with men in Africa and India
- Nepal: Valentine's Day turns pink
- India: Male professionals double as sex workers for extra income
- India: Openly happy and gay in Orissa
- Nepal: First transgender choir strikes gay rights chord
- Iran: New study claims 16% of Iranian men have had gay relationships
- Pakistan: Pakistan bans Bollywood "gay" buddy movie
- India: Sex Survey '08: Homosexuality (conducted by India Today-AC Nielsen-ORG MARG)
- India: For Gays in India, Fear Rules: Blackmailers Thrive Using Law That Makes Homosexuality a Crime
- India: Transgenders to get free education
- Pakistan: Pakistani gay finds love across the border
- Nepal: Nepal’s gay MP crusades for India’s sexual minorities
- India: Police Violence against Activists in Bangalore on October 20, 2008
- South and Southeast Asia: In Plainspeak, the Asian publication that "talks about basic as well as complicated and even contentious issues of sexuality and rights in simple (but not simplistic) language", releases its most recent issue
- India: Indian Traditions of Love
- India: Happy Together: While a colonial clause is being argued in court, Nithin Manayath traces the upbeat and varied journey of India’s gay community in the last decade
- India: Where have Kerala’s Hijras gone?
- India: Out with the past: Author of Memories of a Gay Life, Sunil Gupta, revisits Jamali Kamali, a tomb he calls significant for the Indian gay community
- India: Homosexual priests not acceptable, say India’s Anglican churches
- India: One night at a gay gala
- Nepal: In Conservative Nepal, a Tribune for the ‘Third Gender’ Speaks Out
- Nepal: Nepal Government unveils budget inclusive of Sexual and Gender Minorities for the first Time in Nepal's history (pdf)
- India: The Hindu: "Gay, but not carefree"
- India: Click your mouse for a gay spouse
- India: Saleem Kidwai Uncovers the Many Faces of Gay India
- Straight but not narrow: Opinion piece on straight participation in Mumbai’s Queer Azadi March
- Delhi's gay community celebrates art festival
- Law and other demons: Gay pride marches mask the daily humiliations of being queer in India
- Think pink, demands the city's queer community
- The context of social constructions of masculinities in south Asia and the kothi framework (doc)
- AIDSBUZZ Profiles Male Sex-Workers (pdf)
- Addressing the legal, social, and judicial impediments to improving sexual health for males who have sex with males in India and Bangladesh (pdf)
- Iran and Gay Rights
- Male-to-male sex, and sexuality minorities in South Asia: An analysis of the politico-legal framework (pdf)
- AIDSBUZZ MSM Issue (pdf)
- Female Partners of MSM (doc)
- The Kothi Framework (doc)
- Rural India’s High Bi Scare (pdf)
- Bangladesh: Social justice, human rights and MSM (doc)
- A Charter for Social Justice (pdf) (South Asia)
- Sex, secrecy and shamefulness: developing a sexual health response to the needs of males who have sex with males in Dhaka, Bangladesh (pdf)
- Globalizing queer? AIDS, homophobia and the politics of sexual identity in India (pdf)
- India: Male sex workers profiled on Current TV (video)
