FEATURE-'I woke up gay': Malaysian LGBT+ band mic to fight bias | Rters

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Wh songs like "I woke up gay" and "Lonely lbian", LGBT+ punk band ! is makg a rare splash Malaysia, g mic to fight long-nng discrimatn.

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FEATURE-'I WOKE UP GAY': MALAYSIAN LGBT+ BAND MIC TO FIGHT BIAS

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By Sikh and Gay om East Malaysia. KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 22 (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - Wh songs like “I woke up gay” and “Lonely lbian”, LGBT+ punk band!

Is makg a rare splash Malaysia, g mic to fight long-nng four-member group is a rary a untry where gay and transgenr issu are often seen as taboo, cross-drsg is illegal and sodomy is banned unr a Brish lonial-era name, which means “shut up” the Malay language, is meant to mock crics for seekg to silence the untry’s lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT+) people. ”The recent surge attacks on the LGBT+ muny and anti-gay rhetoric om senr officials has dovetailed wh what crics say is a rise relig nservatism, which has erod Malaysia’s tradnally tolerant brand of than 60 percent of Malaysia’s 32 ln people are Malay Mlims, but the untry is also home to a large number of ethnic mori who practise other religns.

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Relig lears are among those who have spoken out agast the LGBT+ muny, argug homosexualy is forbidn by relig teachgs.

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