The followg list nsists of formally accepted words, as well as slang Sgapore's four official and other mory languag, ed to refer to gay men and lbians. Terms for transgenr and tersex people, while not strictly applible to homosexual dividuals, are also clud this...
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SGAPORE GAY TERMOLOGY
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However, rogatory slang words ially referrg specifilly to transgenr people Sgapore and Malaysia, for example "ah kua" (Hokkien), "bapok", "pondan", "kedik" (Malay), "kidi" (Ta) and "muffat" (Sglish), also me to be ed as slurs on effemate cisgenr men bee for the greater part of the twentieth century, there was nfn as to what the difference between gay and transgenr was. In fact, the revelatory Sgapore's first newspaper articl on the LGBT muny published 1972, even after months of rearch, the vtigative reportg team still lumped homosexual men together wh transgenr women to one large tegory wh three subdivisns.
SGAPORE GAY CENSORSHIP
LGBT or GLBT is an ialism that stands for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr. In e sce the 1990s, the term is an adaptatn of the ialism LGB, which began to replace the term gay reference to the broar LGBT muny begng the mid-to-late 1980s. The ialism, as... * singapore lgbt encyclopedia *
In fact, the acronym "LGBT" only began to be ed by activists the Uned Stat, the home of the worldwi gay rights movement, as late as 1988 before fally managg to creep to gnisance the Sgaporean lexin durg the mid-2000s. The term "mak nyah" was ed by the Malaysian male transsexual muny ( 1987 when they tried to set up a society but was nied by the Malaysian Registrar of Societi) as a preferred substute for "pondan" or "bapok" which generally refers to men who are effemate homosexual (and cisgenr) mal. Another plsible etymology is the siary between the rabb's forward-bendg posn wh s back arched and the one adopted by a "bottom" durg anal sex, or the rabb's flexed paws and the stereotypil limp wrs of gay men.
Moreover, wh male gay sex havg been crimalised for almost a century unr Sectn 377A of the Penal Co, procreatn beg culturally seen as an important aspect of one's duty to society and wh nsirable peer prsure to adhere to genr norms, there is much shame associated wh beg gay or transgenr. Some of the classil Malay texts, such as the Hikayat Hang Tuah (Epic of Hang Tuah), the Sejarah Melayu (Malay Annals), and the Hikayat Panji Semirang (Tale of Prce Semirang), nta referenc to same-sex love, homoeroticism, and genr ambiguy among the characters. We n retropolate om the culture of ntemporary Malays that there was probably much tolerance towards men who dulged surrept homosexual activy, as evinced by the absence of any vol or physil vlence agast such people, outsi of the amework of the imported Islamic socpolil system.
Sgapore gay censorship refers to the censorship of LGBT them the followg media and other suatns: ee-to-air televisn subscriptn televisn rad Inter films vio gam performg arts talks and speech exhibns d rerdgs prt social Official prohibn of... * singapore lgbt encyclopedia *
Constance Mary Turnbull, her work A History of Morn Sgapore 1819-2005, noted that when the Brish started to import large numbers of Che oli soon after the lony's foundg, Haane boys were nantly brought as homosexual prostut for the ntured labourers whose numbers were to rise threefold the last thirty years of the 19th century[10]. Given the easg of hibns afford by travel's transory ndn, one n assume homoerotic timacy and sexual enunters between male tourists and lol youth, particularly servants hotels and boardgho, to have also been not equent.
This ference is le wh the fact that one of the first reported offenc unr Sectn 377A volved a Brish pta, Douglas Marr, who was charged for but acquted of illegal homosexual acts wh a Sgaporean Malay male youth, Sud b Dd, at the pta's home 1941[22], [23], [24]. In the The Stras Tim' 1970 feature on the history of prostutn Sgapore, s 12 April 1970 edn on page 4 mentned a homosexual man named Daffodil Sng (whom they lled a tame) who started a cha of brothels and built a vice empire employg female sex workers. Wh the crimalisatn of homosexual acts, there mt have been stanc where flagrant nsensual gay sex between lols seedy nocturnal venu met wh supprsn by the police, but crimal prosecutns were rare bee the thori were more ncerned wh homosexual prostutn targetg European clients whose morals they did not want rpted.