There is a long history of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr activy Sgapore. Male homosexualy was outlawed unr Brish le , spe beg acknowledged among the lol populatn. Followg Japane occupatn durg World War II and the untry gag pennce, homosexualy and transvtism were visible as a street scene, and om the 1970s were tered for some nightclubs. In that also, Sgapore beme a centre of genr-reassignment surgery. Concerns over HIV arose after s were reported the 1980s. Durg the 1990s, police clamped down on maniftatns of homosexualy due to the stigma of HIV, leadg to the growth of a gay movement. Male homosexualy was ma legal the untry aga 2022, after the Brish lonial-era law Sectn 377A was repealed by the ernment.
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SGAPORE GAY CENSORSHIP
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... * lgbt singapore wikipedia *
However, at the same time and as if to ntradict self, the 2010 CRC Report also reaffirmed the stat quo of the Inter Co of Practice, first laid down 1997, which emed "prohibed material" as that which "advot homosexualy or lbianism".
This ntent phrase has led many human rights activists to argue that is prepostero for the MDA to regard realistic, posive portrayals of gay men and lbians, and speech, terviews or nversatns support of LGBT equaly, as "advotg" homosexualy. Owg to the ignorance of the SBA that homosexualy and lbianism were not 'sexual perversns' acrdg to prevailg ternatnal medil opn but variatns of the norm, and wispread public dissatisfactn wh the vague, accurate and unnecsarily rtrictive wordg of the Co of Practice, Notifitn no. While beg a quantum leap away om rrectly labellg homosexualy a sexual perversn, the non-specifitn of what exactly "advot homosexualy or lbianism" ma a taboo subject for televisn documentari for 7 years followg the first issuance of the Co.
David Christie, Senr Manager (Censorship), Network Programmg & Promotns Channel 5, MediaCorp replied The Stras Tim fom[41] to plats about the censorship, "We wish to clarify that the programme was eded for the enre telest acrdance to the Media Development Authory (MDA) Programme Co - specifilly, the relevant guil relatg to the treatment and portrayal of homosexual them and issu. Dt Lance Black, whose script for Milk won the award for origal screenplay, and Sean Penn who played the sla gay rights lear the same movie, both ma a passnate plea for same-sex marriage rights their acceptance speech. The rollary of this was that gay-affirmative films like Milk, The Kids Are All Right and Stonewall uld henceforth be viewed their uncut or at least R21 versns on the platforms whout havg to be watered down to M18 standards.
SGAPORE GAY HISTORY
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The R(A) ratg was changed to R21, wh the Censorship Review Commtee of 2003 proposg to "allow greater leeway to non-exploative sex and nudy" ntent for adults as well to take a "more flexible and ntextual approach" to homosexual ntent film. R21 (Rtricted to persons 21 years and above) - May nta graphic full ontal nudy wh/whout sexual ntext, sequenc of explic and prolonged simulated sexual activi, morate homosexual sex acts, pervasive strong arse language, very strong graphic vlence/gore and torture, tailed dg takg activi/sequenc and may offend relig people. Two short films, "Tanjong Rhu"[76] by Boo Junfeng and "Thrhold"[77] by Loo Zihan, both of which were partially fund by Fridae and loosely based on te life cints of police entrapment of 12 gay men the first and a gay medil stunt the send, were pulled jt days before they were to be screened at the 6th annual Sgapore Short Cuts ftival which opened on 15 Augt 2009 [78].
"The theme of homosexualy, therefore, forms the ma narrative of the film as the protagonist is portrayed to overe his fear of beg rejected as a gay male; and upled wh the support of his iends, gradually gas nfince to seek out the real inty of his love tert. Members of the LGBTQ muny said the ephebophile character perpetuated a false stereotype of gay men as perverted sexual predators, and poted out that such problematic portrayals of queer people were not balanced by posive portrayals the lol media. On 3 November 2021, the IMDA slapped the Marvel film Eternals wh an M18 ratg bee of homosexual referenc, the portrayal of a same-sex fay un and a scene wh a gay kiss, makg the first movie om the ultra-popular superhero anchise to not receive a PG or PG13 ratg[93], [94], [95], [96].
HOW A GAY MAN OM SGAPORE FOUND ACCEPTANCE ATRALIA
Sgapore's homophobic ratg of M18 was only paralleled by Rsia's 18+ classifitn, ntrast wh almost all other major untri, cludg Indonia, which were more acceptg of the gay scen, wh India even allowg unrtricted viewg:. On Tuday, 14 June 2022, the IMDA said that Disney animated film Lightyear, which featured a same-sex uple, would be released Sgapore wh an NC16 ratg for s “overt homosexual pictns” and that the film's distributor had turned down the optn of releasg two versns of the movie unr a dual-ratg system that would have allowed a younger dience to watch a lower-rated versn[97], [98], [99].
The IMDA stated: "Lightyear is the first mercial children’s animatn to feature overt homosexual pictns" and add that the film ntaed “some pictns of a female lead character and her partner startg a fay and gog through different ton of their liv”. Ja Jackson's albums The Velvet Rope and All for You were also banned Sgapore after their release the Uned Stat due to homosexual and sexually explic them that the Broadst, Publitns and Arts Appeal Commtee (BPAA) found "not acceptable to our society". For ContraDictn 2[102], which was the penultimate event of IndigNatn 2006, Koh Jee Leong's poem, "Come on, straight boy" was the only work banned by the Media Development Authory, cg the reason that was "enuragg homosexualy".
On 1 June 2016, Facebook er Alv Ng posted the We are agast Pkdot Sgapore group, statg that he had watched the show’s openg performance and observed “a gay kiss that occurred the send last scene (the weddg dance)”. Dpe announcements 2003 that Sgapore would relax s censorship laws cludg liftg the 20-year ban on Cosmopolan magaze, the Media Development Authory (MDA) warned a lol men's magaze, Manaze, to tone down s "pro-gay" ntent and e of half-nu male bodi[114].