Do you want your chance to serve a ball or two on the same tennis courts that host the US Open? Or perhaps you just fancy a knockabout with some friends. Wherever you are in the world, there is a good chance there will be a Gay and Lesbian Tennis Association (GLTA) club for you.

We met up with Daniel Merrithew, commissioner of the (GLTA) to find out more about the association and the opportunities it gives its members.

What is GLTA's background?

A former deputy commissioner general of the Thai police who is running for the governor of Bangkok election on 3 March has released a video appealing to gay and trans voters.

'Our modern world increasingly accepts varied genders,' says Pongsapat Pongcharoen in the video, Global Post reports.

A lesbian couple in Bangkok attempted to register their marriage at Bang Rak district office yesterday for Valentine's Day.

Pallawee Jongtangsajjatham and Rungtiwa Tangkanopak were told that same-sex couples could not be offered a marriage certificate.

The couple said that they will file a complaint with the House of Representatives and request to meet Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to discuss same-sex marriage.

'Tomboy' students in Thailand are demanding their right to wear non-gender-conforming clothes to university.

Students at Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University in Bangkok have complained saying it is unfair that male students are allowed to wear female clothes, but female students are not allowed to wear male clothes.

IKEA Thailand has apologized to Thai Transgender Alliance for 'the unintended offense' caused by an advert featuring a transgender person.

The advert, shown on Bangkok's BTS Skytrain system and YouTube, features a transgender woman who is so shocked by a sale item she speaks in a masculine voice - causing the man she is with to run away.

Limb-bending massage is as synonymous with Thailand as green curry, full moon beach parties and saffron-robed Buddhist monks.

However, my memories of the country’s ancient healing tradition when I was passing through Bangkok as a penniless student was not of supine pleasure.

Crammed full of sweaty backpackers all gently groaning under the pressure of their masseurs’ meaty hands, the parlor on infamous Khaosan Road was more like a battery hen factory than a spa.

Two gay men who worked as security guards at the same hotel are dead after a lovers quarrel ended with one stabbing the other to death and then killing himself by jumping off the roof.

Sinchai Neesantier, 52, and Wittawas Saeng-ard, 28, both worked as security for a luxury 24-storey hotel in Bangkok’s Phra Nakhon district and were seen arguing on the rooftop on Thursday night.

On arrival police found the younger man’s dead body in a pool of blood on the rooftop and assessed on scene that he had been stabbed at least 10 times.

In most developing countries, gay men form LGBT rights groups first, encouraged by HIV and AIDS prevention funding. Thailand is unusual in that the first LGBT rights group, Anjaree, was formed by lesbians in 1987.

Anjana Suvarnananda, one of the founders of Anjaree tells Gay Star News why, when we meet her in Bangkok.

Why did lesbians form the first LGBT rights group in Thaliand?

The Higher Education Commission in Thailand has agreed to allow five transgender women graduating from the country’s most prestigious university to wear female clothes in their graduation ceremony on 30 August.

‘I’ve dressed in a female student uniform since I was in my first year at university,’ Baramee Denjan Phanich told Thai newspaper The Nation.

Seeking a short break in her Asian tour, Lady Gaga has met Thai 'ladies' of a different kind at a Bangkok drag show featuring busty dancers who were not born that way.

Hours after arriving in the Thai Capital on Wednesday (23 May), the bisexual pop diva 'clapped her hands and screamed', 'moving to the rhythm' in appreciation of the performance at Calypso Cabaret, where a troupe of extravagantly dressed 'lady boys' lip-synched and danced to well-known Asian pop songs, according to news agencies.

It is the Songkran festival again in much of Southeast Asia, but Thailand has easily stolen the spotlight from its neighours.

With maximum temperatures topping 95°F (35°C) at the hottest time of the year in Bangkok, it is only natural that people are happily getting into wet and wild water fights, which originated as a way to pay respect to people and also mark the traditional Thai New Year.

Queerness, an exhibition at the Toot Yung gallery in Bangkok presents windows into the domestic lives of gay couples in the city. Piryarat Piyapongwiwat, the photographer behind the exhibition, and featured in one image of herself and her girlfriend, talks to Gay Star News about the whys and hows of these tender images.

Why did you decide to focus on gay couples for this series?