Human Rights Education Institute of Burma

The Courage Unfolds Campaign and video highlight the issues faced by LGBT people in Asia and encourage the use of the Yogyakarta Principles as a tool to promote LGBT human rights.

GSN - Burma publicly celebrates gay rights for the first time for yesterday's International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia

Hundreds of people in Burma have attended the country's first public gay pride event.

YANGON (AFP) - Myanmar held its first gay pride celebrations on Thursday, organisers said, in a sign of liberalising social attitudes paralleling political reforms in the formerly army-ruled nation.

Burma marks its first ever event celebrating lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) culture on Thursday as part of a global initiative called International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO).

Voice TV - In many ways, countries around the world are shifting, albeit slowly, toward a more liberal view with regard to ideas of gender and ​​sexuality. Argentina for example recently developed legislation that defines sex-change surgery as a legal right.

‘Our message is just to end homophobia - this is not a political issue’ says IDAHO Burma organiser

GSN - Rangoon and Mandalay, the two largest cities in Burma, will host public LGBT rights events for the first time on Thursday.

Clubs, magazines and even an LGBT-oriented TV show are building momentum against institutionalised prejudice

The Guardian - The nightclub is heaving, sweaty and loud, pulsating with blinding blue and white lights, and packed with drunken dancers. At the bar, the young sons of Burma's elite are buying bottles of Jack Daniel's and Johnnie Walker with thick wads of dirty kyat notes.