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1 12, 2025

Malaysia Sparks Outrage with Mass Raids on Men-Only Spas, Raising Fears of LGBTQ Persecution

By JRL Charts|2025-12-01T09:45:57-08:00December 1st, 2025|Categories: LGBT Politics, LGBT Politics Asia, World LGBT News|Tags: human rights campaign, JRL CHARTS Exclusives, LGBT Politics Asia, LGBT Rights News & Updates | JRL CHARTS LGBT Politics, Malaysia LGBTQ News|

By: Paul Goldberg, Senior Editor | LGBT Politics Asia MALAYSIA — (December 1, 2025) — Malaysia is once again drawing international scrutiny after coordinated police raids on men-only saunas and spas across Kuala Lumpur resulted in more than 200 men being detained — a sweeping action that activists say is part of a dangerous and [...]

30 07, 2023

Band 1975 cancel gigs after Gay Kiss in Malaysia Concert

By JRL Charts|2025-12-01T09:39:44-08:00July 30th, 2023|Categories: LGBT Politics, LGBT Politics Asia|Tags: British Band 1975, JRL CHARTS Exclusives, LGBT News – Breaking LGBTQ Headlines, Politics & Culture | JRL CHARTS, Malaysia LGBTQ News|

MALAYSIA — (07-30-23) — British band The 1975 cancelled their shows in Liberal Taiwan and Muslim-majority Indonesia, after Malaysia stopped the group in the middle of their set after lead singer Matty Healy gave a passionate kiss to his male bandmate. In a statement released by the British Band on Sunday, the indie-rock group said, [...]

1 05, 2023

Malaysia Police Seized RM1.1 Million Worth of Sex Toys

By JRL Charts|2025-12-01T09:40:00-08:00May 1st, 2023|Categories: Adult News, Pleasure Products Headline News, Sex Toy Industry News, Reviews & Latest Releases|Tags: Malaysia LGBTQ News, Malaysia police raid, Malaysia Sex Toys Seized, Nik Yussaimi Yussof, pleasure products, sex dolls news, sex toys with apps|

PETALING JAYA, MY — (05-01-23) — Police seized 22,929 of banned sex toys worth RM1.1 million ($224,190.11-USD) from a warehouse in Penang. The operation by police were targeting online transactions in pleasure products. Back on March 14, the country's Home Ministry revealed that during a February 15 operations involving online transactions, had seized a considerable [...]

30 10, 2022

Religious Police in Malaysia Raid LGBT Halloween Party

By JRL Charts|2025-12-01T09:40:13-08:00October 30th, 2022|Categories: World LGBT News|Tags: LGBT Activist Numan Afifi, LGBT News October 2022, LGBT World News – Global LGBTQ Headlines & Politics | JRL CHARTS, Malaysia LGBTQ News, Malaysia Raid LGBT Halloween Party, Malaysia Religious Police, Noor Dellhan Yahaya, Police Raid LGBT Halloween Party|

KUALA LUMPUR, MY — (10-30-22) — Malaysia's Islamic religious police raided an LGBT Halloween party Saturday night, arresting people in the process for cross-dressing and allegedly encouraging illegal vices. The LGBT community continues to suffer discrimination and brutality with conservative attitudes chipping away at the Muslim-majority nation's one-time reputation for moderation and tolerance. Activist Numan [...]

4 09, 2018

Two Malaysian Women Caned In Public Over Lesbian Sex

By JRL Charts|2025-12-01T09:40:24-08:00September 4th, 2018|Categories: LGBT Politics|Tags: Amnesty International, caned for Lesbian sex, conservative traditional values, human rights groups, intolerance, lgbt politics, LGBTQ community, Malaysia LGBTQ News, Malaysian Lesbians, Malaysian women, opposition party, Pan-Malaysian Islamist Party, PAS, plead guilty, Sharia High Court, Terengganu|

Women’s rights groups condemned the sentence “a travesty and a grave miscarriage of justice.” KUALA LUMPUR — Two Malaysian women convicted of attempting lesbian sex in a car were caned in court. The dark age practice was witnessed by dozens of people on Monday which immediately condemned by human rights activists. According to human rights [...]