Mobilizg Gay Sgapore: Rights and Ristance an Authorarian State on JSTOR

From private meetgs livg rooms the 1990s to the emergence of annual ralli and crimalizatn mpaigns the past six years, Sgapore's gay rights activists have sought equaly and jtice a state that do not regnise their rights to seek protectn of their civil and polil liberti. In her groundbreakg book, Mobilizg Gay Sgapore, Lyte Chua tells the history of the gay rights movement Sgapore and asks what a social movement looks like unr the circumstanc. She exam the movement s emergence, velopment, strategi, and tactics, as well as the rol of law and rights social procs. Chua -pth terviews wh gay activists, observatns of the movement's activi, movement documents, ernment statements, and media reports. She shows how activists ploy "pragmatic ristance" to ga visibily and support, and tackle polil norms that supprs dissent, while avoidg direct nontatns wh the state. * mobilizing gay singapore *

* mobilizing gay singapore *

For s, Sgapore's gay activists have sought equaly and jtice a state where law is ed to stifle basic civil and polil liberti. In her groundbreakg book, Mobilizg Gay Sgapore, Lyte Chua asks, what do a social movement look like an thorarian state? She tak an expansive view of the gay movement to exame s emergence, velopment, strategi, and tactics, as well as the rol of law and rights social procs.   Chua tells this important story g -pth terviews wh gay activists, observatns of the movement's activi-cludg "Pk Dot" events, where thoands of Sgaporeans gather annual celebratns of gay pri-movement documents, ernment statements, and media reports. She shows how activists ploy "pragmatic ristance" to ga visibily and support, tackle polil norms that supprs dissent, and al wh police harassment, while avoidg direct nontatns wh the law.    Mobilizg Gay Sgapore also addrs how the brave, lolly engaged cizens e out to the open as gay activists and expand and diversify their efforts the global queer polil movement.    * mobilizing gay singapore *