Joe Okonkwo

An estimated 18,000 people marched in a gay pride parade in Taipei, Taiwan, on Saturday in what's being called the largest such march to take place in Asia. The event was Taipei's sixth and occurred despite rain showers associated with nearby Typhoon Jangmi, Australian newspaper The Age reports.

A proposal by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to expand federal protections for health care workers' religious beliefs could threaten the care that patients receive, several organizations are arguing. LGBT people are at particular risk if the proposed "provider conscience" regulation goes into effect, the groups assert, because the rule would allow workers, on the basis of their faith convictions, to refuse care to patients.