The letter writer Ho Lay Ping (“Don’t equate difference in opinion with discrimination”, June 20) said that because the Pink Dot event is allowed to continue, it shows that “discrimination does not exist”. A minority community which faces no discrimination…
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ISTANBUL — On June 29, Turkey’s 12th Gay Pride Parade was held on Istanbul’s crowded Istiklal Avenue. Thousands marched joyfully carrying rainbow flags until the police began dispersing them with water cannons. The authorities, as has become their custom since…
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BANGKOK – A foreign same-sex couple Monday vowed not to leave Thailand without their daughter after a local surrogate mother rescinded permission for them to take the baby she gave birth to. Gordon Lake, an American, and his Spanish husband,…
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HANOI — Since their December arrival in Vietnam, US Ambassador Ted Osius and his husband have become the most prominent gay couple in the South-east Asian country. Mr Osius and Mr Clayton Bond landed with their toddler son shortly before…
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Gay marriage has gone from unthinkable to reality in the blink of an eye. A recent Washington Post/ABC News poll shows that support for gay marriage is now at 61 percent—the highest it’s ever been. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court…
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