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Contents:

• THIS GAY MAN’S CISG ADVENTURE THE TOILET STALLS OF AN OPERA HOE DID NOT GO AS PLANNED: WATCH
• PUBLIC TOILETS SGAPORE: GAY ASPECTS
• GAY TOILET STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG
• TOILETS WHERE GAY MEN MEET.
• ‘BOG JOBS’: PUBLIC TOILETS AND GAY ENUNTERS
• GAY TOILET SEX

THIS GAY MAN’S CISG ADVENTURE THE TOILET STALLS OF AN OPERA HOE DID NOT GO AS PLANNED: WATCH

The toilet stalls of an opera hoe have a few surpris store for a gay man who cis to e them to go cisg for a quickie this new short film by Brazilian director João Dall'stella which recently screened at the 2020 Outft Film Ftival and has been makg the ftival rounds before that.

PUBLIC TOILETS SGAPORE: GAY ASPECTS

Rints who live the area - once notor as a home of prostut and sex clubs - say Soho's WCs are still firmly on the map as gay cisg hot-spots and that puts people right off g them At Berwick Street Market, trars say the public toilets there still garner a “reputatn” for those seekg to share some public cency.

Public toilets any major cy see their fair share of surrept gay cisg activy and Sgapore is no exceptn.

However, wh the relative official tolerance of gay snas sce the late 1990s, upled wh the existence of many open air cisg grounds and opportuni for onle hookups even though male gay sex remas illegal the republic wh the retentn of Sectn 377A of the Penal Co, the amount of toilet cisg has wnsed a signifint rctn sce the early 2010s. Public toilets were thought to be the first lol venu where gay men uld meet others wh siar tentns, as and when they felt the urge.

GAY TOILET STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG

The toilets therefore hold the ignom distctn of beg the cradle of the nascent gay muny Sgapore. To the homosexual men who sought an emotnal and rnal nnectn wh kdred spirs at a time when no alternative avenu were available, was jt another physlogil necsy life; ed, a basic human need. The toilet's proximy to Hong Lim Park may also expla why the latter beme Sgapore's first well known cisg ground, both lolly and ternatnally, and the first Sgaporean gay venue to be listed the Spartac Internatnal Gay Gui.

The public nvenience was not only ed by b drivers and nductors after their shift, but also by alightg passengers and homosexual men om around Sgapore. When Hong Lim Park beme a well known gay cisg area shortly before the 1960s, homosexuals had an addnal venue to adjourn to after visg the toilet.

TOILETS WHERE GAY MEN MEET.

Th, if any gay men were loerg for a prolonged perd of time, they would yearn for the h air of nearby Hong Lim Park.

The neighbourg back alleys parallel to the right bank of Boat Quay (lookg downstream) also beme popular nocturnal hnts for gay cisers when the area was a uple of rows of relict buildgs, serted and uned om 1983 to 1989. It was also a mag for gay cisers but was not as inic and well patronised as the stcture scribed above, prumably bee s lotn was not at the crossroads of human traffic like the stcture scribed above.

‘BOG JOBS’: PUBLIC TOILETS AND GAY ENUNTERS

One late middle-aged ( the late 2010s) gay man remisced about his share of fun there wh the mcular, macho labourers who worked nearby wareho.

GAY TOILET SEX

From the 1960s to the 1990s, many homosexual men ed to loer a roughly lear formatn agast the wall along the elongated entrance nocturnally om 10pm onwards.

Closeted gay profsnals, like the dly effemate head of a medil partment at Alexandra Hospal, were sporadilly spotted there the 1990s. One gay ciser graphilly rells that the retaker of the loo would rent his ltle room, which was loted at the ont of the toilet jt next to the ma road, for $2 per sex ssn.