Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, last month opened its first health clinic specifically for LGBT patients.

The Bali Medika Clinic is located in the city of Denpasar on the resort island of Bali. Since opening in early October, the center has treated nearly 100 patients — Indonesia is currently dealing with a soaring HIV rate. Many gay men in Indonesia remain closeted, while transgender women, known as warias, are allowed more freedom and respect.

The editor of a
new gay and lesbian travel guide to Malaysia, Singapore,
and Indonesia is hoping the book will foster more acceptance
of homosexuality, which is outlawed in two of the
three conservative Southeast Asian nations. The
Utopia Guide to Singapore, Malaysia, and
Indonesia, launched in late April, is the first
such guide for the three countries, according to Utopia

The government has succeeded in getting emojis with a gay theme removed from one social messaging platform and is now going after another. 

Indonesia will
nearly quadruple the amount of money it spends on
fighting AIDS over the next three years, with the major
focus on its hardest-hit Papua province, the welfare
minister said.

Indonesia has one
of Asia's fastest growing HIV rates, with up to 290,000
infections in a population of 235 million people, fueled
mainly by injecting drug users and prostitution.

They were arrested during a sauna raid.

Neighbors burst in on the naked men and now they could face a public lashing like this one.

A note from the editors: What's happening to us shouldn't be kept in the shadows and can't be fully described in paragraphs. This graphic video is being shown because the world must face what is happening to those accused of being gay.

Aceh province in the world's largest Muslim-majority country has a new law that calls for 100 lashes for same-sex activity.