Why Sgapore's gay sex law change is a double-edged sword for LGBTQ activists | CNN

Contents:

• HERE’S A LIST OF ALLEGED GAY CELEBRI SGAPORE
• 25 FAMO GAY CELEBRI IN THE WORLD (PHOTOS)
• WHY SGAPORE’S GAY SEX LAW CHANGE IS A DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD FOR LGBTQ ACTIVISTS
• WHAT HAS STEVEN LIM BEEN UP TO? GROWG UP ACTOR'S LATT PROJECT IS SGAPOREAN GAY DRAMA

HERE’S A LIST OF ALLEGED GAY CELEBRI SGAPORE

SINGAPORE — It's Pri Month already – that time of year when the LGBTQ muny reaffirms their worth as equal members of society, and alli have the opportuny to step up to support the annual LGBTQ rally Pk Dot gears up for a virtual celebratn on 12 June, celebri Sgapore are speakg up, though not many, admtedly, a untry where gay sex is still illegal – no Mediarp celebri, Oei, theatre actrs and a longtime ally who's been the Pk Dot marshal at every eratn of the event sce s ceptn, jammed to inic Pri anthems wh poser Julian Wong on theatre pany Wild Rice's social media. Legalisg homosexualy won't threaten your children, and ge on your "right" to discrimate agast others. Related stori:Here are the LGBTQ-iendly pani sponsorg Pk Dot 2021Sgaporean transgenr stunt says she's barred om school agaMediarp apologis for TV drama ntag negative gay stereotypHom across Sgapore light up pk as Pk Dot 2020 go onleSgapore's LGBTQ voters ll on electn ndidat to end silence on queer issuLGBTQ muni Asia h hard by panmic rtrictns.

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. 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. On 23 September, a twter er by the handle @Blackspaisba1 shared a list of lol celebri, which he or she claims to be gay. Posted : Benjam Tan gay, g out story, Dasmond Koh, ar straight people, Jt Foo, jtfjh, NoonTalk Media, out of the closet, Sgapore gay actors, Sgapore gay celebri, Sgapore LGBT celebri, Steven David Lim.

25 FAMO GAY CELEBRI IN THE WORLD (PHOTOS)

A social jtice warrr, the good Reverend is currently servg as the Pastoral Advisor of the Free Communy Church (FCC); Sgapore’s only gay-affirmg Christian Church. One of the pneers of the gay rights movement Sgapore, Alex Au has been champng LGBT rights long before beme ol. In 2012, long-time gay uple Gary Lim and Kenh Chee very bravely filed a legal challenge agast Sectn 377A; the law that crimalis sex between men.

Dr Khoo Hoon Eng: The Mother Of Gay Sons Who Started A Support Group For Parents Of LGBT Children. Not only did Dr Khoo Hoon Eng accept her two gay son’s homosexualy, she has also been relentlsly mpaigng on their behalf for greater acceptance of the LGBT muny. Kelv started ADLUS (Adventurers Like Us), a gay sports group as well as Heartland, a gay buddhist group 1999.

Both groups started out as mailg lists that aimed to nnect gay people wh mon terts at a time when technology wasn’t so advanced yet. Kelv also ma history by beg one of the first few Asians to earn a feature a 2001 Tim article as an openly gay man.

WHY SGAPORE’S GAY SEX LAW CHANGE IS A DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD FOR LGBTQ ACTIVISTS

From the birth of Sgapore’s first gay dis the early 1970s to the police entrapment and ng of gay cisers the early 1990s, Roy has lived through all. Prr to the 1990s, was almost impossible to publicly list an dividual who was willg to adm that he or she was homosexual.

It was only wh the AIDS crisis, the liberalisatn of society spurred by the growth of the Inter, the troductn of ble televisn to Sgapore, the worldwi trend toward human rights and eedom of dividual exprsn, pl the enomic advantag of social diversy regnised by the Government, that gay Sgaporeans have been urageo enough to stand up and be unted for what they tly are.

This is all the more remarkable the face of what is oftentim surmountable prejudice and homophobia. Publisher of the world's first glossy Asian gayrotic perdil, OG, which was produced Sgapore, prted Hong Kong, and wily distributed around the world through the 1980s and 1990s. Many Sgaporean gay photographers and graphic artists worked unrground to produce OG semi-annually over two s.

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

Even as this mistry affirms lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenred (LGBT) people opposn to the stance of the stutnal church, he was nvced this was a mistry he uld not eva, a rponsibily he uld not avoid - to clare Christ’s clive love to those who had been ostracized and neglected for far too long by the Church. Alex Au (see ncise tobgraphy, webse) - Sgapore's most wily-rpected gay activist, regard by many as beg the foundg father of the Sgapore gay movement. Profile, blog, photo album) - The ma activist who spearhead lol gay Buddhist and sports anisatns.

She relquished her appotment as print of the pro-tem mtee of People Like Us 3 2006 but ntu to build a bridge between the lbian and gay muni.

Tan was the send male gay activist to be terviewed on Sgapore televisn and is an arnt advote of mocracy. He was the first to anise outdoor gay parti the early 1990s at such venu as the East Coast Lagoon and Big Splash, and non-Sunday gay dis nights at var mastream clubs like Dancers - the Club Clarke Quay and at Far East Shoppg Centre. He opened Spartac, Sgapore's first gay sna wh a daily gay dis on the ground floor, and later, Stroke and Raw snas along Ann Siang Road.