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PinkNews.co.uk - UK, July 31, 2007 A new chapter in the slow opening up of China started this month with the opening of a new social support centre for the gay community in Hong Kong.

Hindustan Times - India, July 30, 2007 In a society in which innuendo and allusion are the preferred modes of communicating sexual desire even for the adults, the notion that adolescents are also sexual beings predictably makes us squirm. Whether it is as parents or as teachers, as aunts or uncles, many of us would rather push this possibility underground into our secretive subconscious.

Hindu - Chennai, India, July 29, 2007 As a general rule, young, effeminate village boys are picked up and trained by masters in highly exaggerated female mannerisms, which very soon grow to be the hallmark of these individuals. A good number continue to revel in their transgender mannerisms, and end up confused.

Hindustan Times - India, July 29, 2007 If you ask Ashok Row Kavi, gay rights activist and resource person of National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO), about the biggest stumbling block on the road to condom usage, he says: "Men." Explanation: "All they are bothered about is pleasure; condoms, they feel, reduce pleasure, so they don't want to use them."

Reuters India - Mumbai, India, July 29, 2007 Kanako Otsuji, backed by the main opposition Democratic Party, said she hoped her campaign would raise awareness of gay rights in a society where many homosexuals remain in the closet.