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A government-affiliated manual for counsellors who work with at-risk teens filed homosexuality under 'delinquency-related issues' for years. After media reports and pressure from rights groups, the gender equality ministry says it will fix it, review the rest and retrain staff.
East Asia's biggest Pride marched under the theme “Our Voices, Our Journey”. President Lai said the fight for equality “must not be reversed”, and Taipei's mayor was met with chants of “don't raid gay bars”.
A Saturday raid on Commander D in Ximending saw 51 people taken in and an officer mocking a wheelchair user. After protests, Taipei's mayor apologised and six officers were disciplined. LGBTQ+ groups say that's not enough.
The Indonesian Ulema Council is drafting a criminalisation bill and proposing to replace 'LGBT' with 'LGSP,' a coinage that files lesbian and gay people alongside sodomy and sexual abuse. It is a fatwa body, not a legislature — but the distinction is thinner than it looks.
Tom Thailand 2026 gives masculine-presenting lesbians and trans men a national stage that pageant culture has never made room for — judged on character and conduct, not just appearance.
The Foreign Contribution Regulation Amendment Bill, headed for a vote in Parliament's monsoon session, would let a government-appointed authority seize a nonprofit's foreign-funded bank accounts and property the moment its registration lapses — with no court review first.
A fresh case at the University of Dhaka is the latest in a documented pattern of surveillance, expulsion, and prosecution of students accused — often without evidence — of being gay.
At the WorldPride Human Rights Conference in Amsterdam, Senator Pornchai Witayalerdpan reflected on what a year and a half of marriage equality has done for Thailand's global standing — and what's still unfinished at home.
Two Bombay High Court petitions are asking India's tax authority to treat same-sex partners as spouses under a gift-tax exemption — a narrow, practical fight born out of the Supreme Court's 2023 refusal to legalize marriage equality.
The Seoul Central District Court ruled that a same-sex couple formed a legally protectable domestic partnership, ordering a third party to pay damages for breaking it up. It's the latest step in a pattern: South Korean courts keep expanding protections for same-sex couples while marriage equality itself stays just out of reach.
A presidential regulation grouping the 'promotion of LGBTQ culture' with nonmilitary threats like terrorism has given cover to a wave of campus policies and street violence, Human Rights Watch and local advocates say.
Singapore's Internal Security Department disrupted three separate plots, including a planned knife attack on LGBTQ+ classmates, after peers and teachers recognized the warning signs and spoke up.
After a string of high court rulings that the same-sex marriage ban is unconstitutional, Japan's Supreme Court has sent the question to its Grand Bench. Here's where things stand and why it matters far beyond Japan.
Eighteen months after same-sex marriage took effect, a long-stalled Gender Recognition Bill is back in play as Thailand's parliament reconvenes — the reform trans Thais have been waiting years for.
New Delhi has asked the Supreme Court to revisit 'constitutional morality' — the doctrine behind the 2018 ruling that decriminalized gay sex. Nobody expects recriminalization, but activists warn the foundation for every future LGBTQ+ right could crack.
From Nepal's landmark marriage ruling to Japan's pending Supreme Court cases, LGBTQ+ progress across Asia is increasingly being written by judges — while legislatures stall.
While Japan's courts wrestle with marriage equality, the cabinet has quietly adopted the country's first nationwide framework for LGBTQ+ awareness in schools, universities, and workplaces.
A new Human Rights Watch report finds harassment of LGBT university students surged during Pride Month 2026 — with at least 10 public universities adopting discriminatory rules and a new criminal code deepening the danger.
Two years after a provisional order opened the door, Nepal's Supreme Court has issued a binding directive requiring the government to fully recognize same-sex marriage. It is now a constitutional requirement, not a favor — and Nepal stands as the 40th country in the world to get there.
In a landmark ruling, the Philippine Supreme Court held that same-sex partners who build a life and a home together have legal co-ownership of what they paid for — and pointedly told Congress it's long past time to legislate recognition.
While Japan's same-sex marriage cases head to the Supreme Court, a quieter revolution has happened city by city: partnership registries now cover the vast majority of the population, even without a single national law.
While Bangkok's Pride grabs the headlines, a city in Thailand's rural northeast is quietly building one of the country's most ambitious Pride projects, complete with rainbow crosswalks and a 'Rainbow School' competition.
Nepal was the first country in South Asia to recognize same-sex marriage. Two years on, only a few dozen couples have registered, and the legal benefits of marriage remain out of reach. The Supreme Court heard arguments this spring on whether to finally close the gap.
A new Taiwan Equality Campaign survey shows support for same-sex marriage steady at 54.3 percent, with adoption and trans-national marriage gaining ground. So why are Taiwan's activists worried?
A year and a half after Southeast Asia's first marriage equality law, Thailand's queer and trans movement is turning to the next frontier: legal gender recognition. And Pride season is in full swing while they push.
Bangkok Pride Festival 2026 runs May 28 to June 1 under the theme 'Patch the World with Pride.' It's the first Bangkok Pride since the Marriage Equality Act took effect on January 1, and the first to host a regional policy forum aimed squarely at the rest of Asia.
Japan's Supreme Court has consolidated six same-sex marriage appeals before its full Grand Bench. The decision, expected in 2027, will determine whether the last G7 holdout's marriage ban is constitutional.
One year after becoming the first country in Southeast Asia to legalize same-sex marriage, Thailand has seen over 26,000 couples tie the knot — roughly 10% of all marriages registered nationwide.
