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The Malaysian government is holding controversial seminars around the country to educate teachers and parents on how to identify students and youth as gay or lesbian.

Last week Malaysia’s government announced that it would ban gay characters from state television programs and radio shows.

Some bad, much good: 2011 will be remembered for giant strides all over the map, while contending with some very, very bad situations in Africa, the Middle East and in our own public schools. Here are the Top 10 gay-related stories of 2011.

Human Rights Watch urged Malaysia’s government Wednesday to rescind a ban on an annual gay arts festival and amend criminal laws that it said discriminated against homosexuals.

Police ordered gay rights activists in Muslim-majority Malaysia on Thursday to scrap an annual arts festival aimed at fighting discrimination.

A gay Malaysian pastor who plans to marry his American partner in New York has pledged to throw a wedding banquet in his home country despite stern criticism by Muslim politicians.

Malaysia’s only openly gay pastor has issued a call for gays in that country, where homosexuality can be punished by 20 years in prison, to come out of the closet.

Sixty-six schoolboys in Malaysia between the ages of 13 - 17 have been identified by teachers as "effeminate" and are being sent to a camp to man up before it’s too late and they "go gay," news sources reported on April 21.

Malaysia’s first gay-themed romance film has become a swift box-office success, attracting curious cinema audiences who rarely get to see movies centered on sexuality because of strict censorship in this Muslim-majority nation, its producer said Wednesday

Malaysian radio stations worry some lyrics in Lady Gaga’s gay anthem "Born This Way" are on the wrong track, baby.