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Contents:
- FIRST GAY CHGAY NTGENT[]
- SGAPORE GAY TRAVEL
- ‘I THOUGHT I WOULD DIE BEFORE THIS MOMENT’: ONE MAN’S FIGHT AGAST SGAPORE’S GAY SEX LAW
- SGAPORE’S LATT RULG ON GAY SEX IS ‘COLD COMFORT,’ ACTIVISTS SAY
- IMAGG THE GAY COMMUNY SGAPOREIMAGG THE GAY COMMUNY SGAPOREIMAGG THE GAY COMMUNY SGAPOREIMAGG THE GAY COMMUNY SGAPOREIMAGG THE GAY COMMUNY SGAPORE
FIRST GAY CHGAY NTGENT[]
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He was one of the most active ntributors of lol LGBT-related news articl to the Sgapore gay news list (SiGNeL)[2] sce the latter's formatn and ntued his archival work on the Sgapore LGBT media archive (SLEMA)[3] sce 2015.
Tan has also rerd and upload the most prehensive llectn of lol LGBT vios to his two YouTube channels - Homosexualy Sgapore[4] and Transgenr people Sgapore[5].
Moreover, many Sgaporean edors of Wikipedia were homophobic and leted entire articl or huge chunks of extant articl, claimg that they were not signifint enough for a prtig reference work such as Wikipedia. Even then, some articl emed sensive bee they rebutted relig nmnatn of homosexualy were also leted by SgWiki's admistrators.
SGAPORE GAY TRAVEL
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Tan has also rerd and amassed the most prehensive llectn of lol LGBT vios on YouTube, divid to 2 channels bee they alt wh separate sets of issu - "Homosexualy Sgapore"[13] and "Transgenr people Sgapore"[14].
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‘I THOUGHT I WOULD DIE BEFORE THIS MOMENT’: ONE MAN’S FIGHT AGAST SGAPORE’S GAY SEX LAW
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"This subjects gay men to the potential distrs of an vtigatn to private nduct where they have a legimate expectatn that the state will cle to prosecute. The 3-judge Court of Appeal had then rejected two separate challeng by Tan Eng Hong, who was also reprented then by M Ravi, and a gay uple, Gary Lim and Kenh Chee.
He also argued that the Attorney-General’s posn - that would naturally follow that any prosecutn unr other provisns which would ntradict the non-prosecutn stance for male homosexual adults dulgg nsensual sex private would likewise not be the public tert - renred Sectn 377A otse a fortri. Ravi said was unclear if gay men would be prosecuted for failg to report homosexual activy.
"Nor are they about the moral worth of homosexual dividuals, " said the Chief Jtice.
SGAPORE’S LATT RULG ON GAY SEX IS ‘COLD COMFORT,’ ACTIVISTS SAY
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He quoted Prime Mister Lee Hsien Loong's words that homosexual dividuals are "part of our society" and "our kh and k".
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"The Government's evint unwillgns to repeal Sectn 377A signals s asssment that society has yet to aquately tegrate the opposg views of mastream nservativ and the homosexual muny, as well as s awarens that our multi-racial, multi-lgual and multi-relig muny remas vulnerable along such flt l.
The cisn not to repeal Sectn 377A then "was a legislative one that was rmed not by the purpose behd the enactment of the provisn some seven s earlier, but by the Government's objective of strikg an optimal promise between petg terts our society and acmodatg differg perspectiv on homosexualy", said Chief Jtice Menon.