• Surviving institutionalized homophobia: stories of #LGBT people in #Singapore:

    Surviving institutional homophobia: stories of LGBT people in

    gaystarnews.com 14 May '13, 8am

    Singapore often makes Gay Star News headlines - about a judge ruling against repealing a colonial-era law that criminalizes gay sex or a pastor preaching against homosexuality at an evangelical 'mega church' conference - but how does that feel for the LGBT people who live there? Leow ...

  • #Singapore pastor calls #LGBT rights movement 'the onslaught of the evil one':

    pastor calls LGBT rights movement the 'onslaught of the evil one'

    gaystarnews.com 09 May '13, 8am

    A Singaporean pastor has delivered a sermon titled God's Pattern for Marriage in front of 3,000 people in which he called the LGBT movement 'diabolical'. 'I believe that God has awakened to face one of the greatest attacks on the family by the evil one,' said Lawrence Khong . Khong al...

  • #Singapore judge's anti-gay rulling a 'major setback' says Human Rights Watch: #LGBT

    judge's decision 'major setback' says Human Rights Watch

    gaystarnews.com 02 May '13, 5am

    Human Rights Watch has vigorously condemned last month's decision by Justice Quentin Loh in Singapore's High Court to uphold a law criminalizing consensual gay sex. 'I was stunned because I thought that this was a very clear breach of equality before the law,' said deputy director Asi...

  • #Singapore judge rules #gay sex ban must stay #LGBT

    judge rules gay sex ban must stay

    gaystarnews.com 09 Apr '13, 2pm

    Singapore’s High Court has dismissed a case by gay partners Gary Lim and Kenneth Chee designed to scrap the law which bans gay male sex . LGBT people in Singapore have already said they will appeal the case to the Court of Appeal. Section 377A of the Singapore Penal Code, introduced w...

  • #gay magazine launching in #Singapore: #LGBT

    magazine launching in

    gaystarnews.com 03 Apr '13, 7am

    Gay Asia is getting it's first 'proper high-fashion lifestyle publication' according to its founder, Hirokazu Mizuhara, speaking to Campaign Asia-Pacific . Element launches this month, published online only to bypass Singapore's censorship laws. 'Government licenses were a concern,' s...

  • Singapore couple goes to court to abolish anti-gay sex law

    couple goes to court to abolish anti-gay sex law

    gaystarnews.com 14 Feb '13, 12pm

    A gay couple in Singapore seeking to abolish a long-standing law banning gay sex had their case heard in court today. The court case was heard just days after a former department store manager sued his boss for alleged discrimination against gays. The two cases highlight how members o...

  • Singapore Christians rally for battle against repeal of anti-gay law

    Christians rally for battle against repeal of anti-gay law

    gaystarnews.com 23 Jan '13, 8am

    Christian pastors in Singapore are showing that they are not going to allow an anti-gay law to be repealed without a fight. Pastor Yang Tuck Yoong of Cornerstone Community Church told Straits Times that church leaders have met several times over the last month to discuss a collective ...

  • Date announced for Singapore's Pink Dot 2013

    Date announced for Singapore's Pink Dot 2013

    gaystarnews.com 07 Mar '13, 9am

    Speaker's Corner at Hong Lim Park in Singapore will once again turn a rosy hue for Pink Dot, which will be on Saturday 29 June this year. Like last year, those who believe that everyone should have the 'freedom to love' with gather at dusk with pink lights to form a dot showing there ...

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