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Contents:
- GROWG UP GAY SGAPORE: ANE CHUA SHAR HIS PERSONAL JOURNEY OM G OUT TO SELF-ACCEPTANCE
- HERE’S A LIST OF ALLEGED GAY CELEBRI SGAPORE
GROWG UP GAY SGAPORE: ANE CHUA SHAR HIS PERSONAL JOURNEY OM G OUT TO SELF-ACCEPTANCE
Activism asi, Ivan is open about his marriage to his hband, who he has been wh for 24 years, servg as a role mol for gay relatnships Sgapore. She actively helped out the mpaign agast the women who had taken over the anisatn, who allegedly did so to rrect AWARE’s supposed promotn of homosexual liftyl. Stereotyp about gays beg volved the arts asi, Steven Lim is another LGBTQ in art pracner.
One of his more recent on-screen projects clus People Like Us, a 2-season web seri by produced to promote safe sex the gay muny. Two years later, he anised a team to form Sgapore’s first and only gay Chgay ntgent durg the para 2010, when the public were allowed to march.
If you thk Reverend Yap’s posn as a vol LGBTQ ally is surprisg, image an openly gay pastor. Photography: Ane Chua“As a gay person, every new environment you go to, you have a choice whether you want to tell people you’re gay or not. He’s an ternatnal mol, a social media fluencer, a dancer, a muny builr, the -founr of Kampung Collective and a proud gay man.
HERE’S A LIST OF ALLEGED GAY CELEBRI SGAPORE
Cur to fd out about his queer journey, I sat down wh the 31-year-old Sgaporean over a vio ll to talk about what was like growg up gay Sgapore, his personal stggl, how he me out to his fay and his life now. However, he was still apprehensive about beg labelled as a gay man. I uldn’t e to terms wh me beg gay.
I am gay and I like guys. That was his ia why someone [would be] gay. “Small thgs like that, ’s a sign of approval – not jt words, ” Ane says wh a fat se on his the world as an openly gay manAfter steppg out of the closet his personal life, Ane still had to navigate through society utly.
“They suggted that clients Sgapore were nservative and would not engage me jobs if they knew I was gay.