A good Samaritan in the Philippines city of Cebu has been injured after preventing a suicide attempt by a gay man.

31 year old Ricky Espinosa saw a man about to jump off a bridge over a river in the city’s Kamputhaw district around 1.30pm on Friday and rushed to save him.

But in the course of trying to prevent the man from jumping, he himself fell into the water, sustaining a number of injuries on hitting the riverbed.

Philippines Police said that both men were drunk at the time, and that they were yet to ascertain the gay man’s identity.

LGBT rights activists in the Philippines have greeted President Aquino’s third state of the union address with protests today (Monday 23).

The gay-friendly Metropolitan Community Church of Quezon City joined thousands of protestors marching down Commonwealth Avenue.

The church’s Reverend Ceejay Agbayani said he was protesting about the failure of the president to pass a reproductive health bill that would halt the rise of death in childbirth.

Much-loved Filipino comic actor Rodolfo Vera Quizon, aka Dolphy, who starred in over 100 films from the 1950s until 2010, died yesterday aged 83.

Despite fathering 18 children with six women, Dolpy was know for depicting gay characters.

Dophy played gay roles in popular comedies Facifica Falayfay (1969), Fefita Fofongay, Sarhento Fofongay (1973), A… Ewan (1974) and the more serious films Ang Tatay Kong Nanay (1978) and Markova: Comfort Gay (2001).

Alan Turing, known as the father of computer science, the codebreaker that helped win World War 2, and the man tortured by the state for being gay, is being celebrated today (23 June).

The British born mathematician and cryptanalyst’s birthday is being honored across the world, with events planned in the UK, USA, Brazil, China, Czech Republic, the Philippines, New Zealand, Israel, Spain, Switzerland, Norway, Italy, Portugal and Germany.

His centenary is also being celebrated with a Google doodle, a functional Turing machine that predated the modern computer.

Lawyer and former priest-in-training Raymond Alikpala has written a book about growing up Catholic and in the closet in the Philippines.

Of God and Men subtitled A Life in the Closet was published earlier this year by Irish non-fiction publishers Maverick House.

An LGBT rights organization in the Philippines is calling on its government to improve its human rights record before a UN review next week.

The UN Human Rights Council will examine the ability of the Philippines to meet international human rights conventions in a Universal Periodic Review (UPR) next week (Monday 28 May).

Filipino world champion boxer Manny Pacquiao has denied quoting a violent anti-gay passage of the Bible and defended his opposition to gay marriage after a backlash.

National Conservative Examiner published an article last weekend in which it appeared Pacquiao, who is also a congressman in the Philippines, quoted a Bible passage from Leviticus that says gay people ‘must be put to death’.

Dozens of LGBT rights campaigners in the Philippines visited the House of Representatives yesterday to ask them to pass an anti-discrimination bill.

The activists had been invited by Congressman Teddy Casino who introduced a bill last year that askes the Philippines officially declare 17 May as National Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (NADAHO).

Cambodia Pride starts on Saturday, and 2012 is a bumper year because the kingdom hosting ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nations). So Pride organisers RoCK (Rainbow Community Kampuchea) are joining forces with LGBT groups in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Burma, Laos and Vietnam for workshops and events.

A gay beauty queen from the Philippines is the latest to oppose the inclusion of transgender women in the Miss Universe contest.

Eriz Lanseta, winner of the Miss Gay Philippines Universe pageant last March, said only 'real women' who can bear children and agive birth should be allowed to compete in the international competition.

CinemAsia Film Festival in Amsterdam starts tomorrow with a Queer & Asian section screening seven films from Indonesia, China, Singapore, The Philippines and Japan.

Gay Star News talk to Chinese director Fan Popo who is presenting the European premiere of his film, Be a Woman, about drag queens in Nanning in southwest China.

What was the most challenging aspect about making Be a Woman?

Life for a minority within a minority was explored in Manila on Saturday at a conference called Deaf Talks: A Forum for Deaf LGBTs on Human Rights and HIV.

At the conference, founder of Deaf Rainbow Philippines addressed the 30 or so attendees using sign language and an interpreter. He said the biggest problem for deaf LGBT people such as him is lack of employment. ‘With no job, no money. Then difficult to find partner. Even on Facebook, gay men with normal hearing ridicule us. Because of broken grammar,’ he said.