“Getaway” Sgapore’s Gay BL Seri - APCOM

Contents:

• HERE’S A LIST OF ALLEGED GAY CELEBRI SGAPORE
• WHAT HAS STEVEN LIM BEEN UP TO? GROWG UP ACTOR'S LATT PROJECT IS SGAPOREAN GAY DRAMA
• S'PORE ACTOR STEVEN DAVID LIM SCRIB EXPERIENCE OF G OUT AS GAY
• AUDNS FOR NEW SGAPORE GAY SHORT FILM ‘HOME PAR’ IS NOW OPEN
• I MA SGAPORE’S FIRST GAY BL WEB DRAMA SERI. HERE’S HOW I DID IT.
• GAY PORTRAYALS ON SGAPORE TELEVISN
• ACTOR CHASE TAN APOLOGIS TO LGBTQ MUNY AFTER IZENS SLAM MEDIARP DRAMA FOR NEGATIVE GAY STEREOTYP
• “GETAWAY” SGAPORE’S GAY BL SERI

HERE’S A LIST OF ALLEGED GAY CELEBRI SGAPORE

On 23 September, a twter er by the handle @Blackspaisba1 shared a list of lol celebri, which he or she claims to be gay.

However, the 48-year-old still acts and his recent projects are the lol gay drama People Like Us (2016) and Getaway, Sgapore's first gay boy love (BL) drama that premiered late last month. He tends to fd his exiled gay uncle, who was siarly disowned by his fay, for guidance but a chance meetg wh a lol named Top (Snooker) leads to somethg more.

WHAT HAS STEVEN LIM BEEN UP TO? GROWG UP ACTOR'S LATT PROJECT IS SGAPOREAN GAY DRAMA

When asked about starrg Sgapore's first gay boy love drama, he joked whout missg a beat: "Well, I only wish Getaway was done like 30 years ago when I was actually a young thg and I uld have a bigger role. While Getaway is also a gay drama, 's not the same as the heavier and more ser gay web seri People Like Us, which Steven acted as well. Wh the web seri meant to reprent the gay experience, wouldn't be a ncern that the actors don't accurately portray the breadth of the LGBTQ+ muny?

Dpe his attractive quali, though, he said he stggl wh a lack of nfince and only dned for Gay Ok Bangkok after his boyiend enuraged him. For actor Steven Lim, whom most people would regnise as the younger brother David Tay on the lol '90s drama seri Growg Up, that's the reason he cid to e out to his fay as a gay man about 20 years ago. Speakg to AsiaOne June for his latt actg project Getaway, Sgapore's first gay boy love drama, he shared: "I uldn't share a whole part of my life wh my parents.

S'PORE ACTOR STEVEN DAVID LIM SCRIB EXPERIENCE OF G OUT AS GAY

When asked about his experience as a gay actor Sgapore, Steven said that he wasn't out and "I don't thk anybody was".

Steven was prevly the lol gay drama People Like Us (2016) and on Getaway, he plays a nventnal father who disapprov of his son's sexualy.

Actor Chase Tan portrays a gay predatory paedophile Che TV drama My Guardian Angels, a pictn that many izens have cricised. Published: 12:15pm, 21 Jul, 2020 Updated: 6:26pm, 21 Jul, 2020 Actor Chase Tan portrays a gay predatory paedophile Che TV drama My Guardian Angels, a pictn that many izens have cricised.

AUDNS FOR NEW SGAPORE GAY SHORT FILM ‘HOME PAR’ IS NOW OPEN

Came to realise he was gay over a perd of time Lim said that there was no sgle moment which he realised he was gay. " Lim add that while the relatnship wh the girl went well, he found somethg amiss om which led him to the ncln that he was gay. Gave direct repli when asked about his private life Lim subsequently stated that he was openly gay by the time he began workg the media dtry durg the 1990s.

Involved LGBT-themed productns Lim has sce been volved LGBT-themed productns such as The Cut Sleeve (2006), a edy foced on two Brish Che gay men, and People Like Us, a lolly produced web drama seri that first started 2016 wh the backg of. Not the first gay actor to be publicly out Dpe the publitn's assertn, Lim is not the first Sgapore actor to have publicly stated that he is gay.

Set Bangkok, the drama is signed to be ‘an thentic gay voice for a gay dience’ and featur an openly queer st om Sgapore and Thailand. Published: 12:15pm, 19 May, 2022 Updated: 12:15pm, 19 May, 2022 Sean Foo is the creator of Getaway, billed as Sgapore’s “first gay BL drama seri”.

I MA SGAPORE’S FIRST GAY BL WEB DRAMA SERI. HERE’S HOW I DID IT.

HOME PAR is wrten and directed by Sean Foo, who is bt known for wrg and starrg ‘Getaway’, Sgapore’s first gay BL web drama seri.

GAY PORTRAYALS ON SGAPORE TELEVISN

THEME: Based on a fish-out-of-water premise, ‘Home Par’ is a rnchy gay edy that provis bg social mentary on gay party culture (classism, racism, body image etc). ‘Home Par’ explor the different ways that gay men al wh discrimatn, and is ultimately a love letter to gay iendships. The rint daddy to Sgapore’s gay muny, Alex tak pri mentorg younger gays, and beg the support system that he never had growg up.

ACTOR CHASE TAN APOLOGIS TO LGBTQ MUNY AFTER IZENS SLAM MEDIARP DRAMA FOR NEGATIVE GAY STEREOTYP

Sgapore’s Prime Mister Lee Hsien Loong on Sunday said the untry will repeal the lonial-era Sectn 377A of Sgapore’s Penal Co, thereby crimalizg gay sex Sgapore, but add that same-sex marriage will ntue to be illegal the cy-state. This will brg the law to le wh current social mor, and I hope, provi some relief to gay Sgaporeans, ” said the Prime Mister.

“GETAWAY” SGAPORE’S GAY BL SERI

It punish gay sex – even if is nsensual, between adults, and tak place privately – for up to two years of imprisonment. In Febary 2022, Sgapore’s Court of Appeal led that the sectn would rema the law, but nnot be enforced to prosecute men for havg gay sex. Lee said: “We need to fd the right way to rencile and acmodate both the tradnal mor of our society, and the aspiratn of gay Sgaporeans to be rpected and accepted.

In June, Thailand edged closer to beg the first place Southeast Asia to legalize same-sex unns when lawmakers passed four different bills aimg to provi greater rights to gay upl, such as the abily to adopt children and manage assets jotly.

In the midst of an unrelated nversatn, I randomly asked Snooker, an alumni of the h gay drama seri ‘Gay Ok Bangkok’, if he miss actg. In many parts of Asia where LGBTQ+ rights are lackg, BL dramas have emerged as the primary form of gay media reprentatn.

That same year, South Korea jumped on the bandwagon by producg s first gay BL drama seri, which was subsequently picked up by Netflix. The Siam was unr the helm of General Manager Nick Downg, whom I had cintally told about my sire to make a gay drama seri over a sual lunch one year ago. Another anisatn that I managed to get on board as a supportg partner was, a programme wh AFA (Actn For AIDs) that provis sexual health-related servic to the gay and MSM muny Sgapore.