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 ...
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...
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’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 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...
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 ...
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...
Christian pastors in Singapore are showing that they are not going to allow an anti-gay law to be repealed without a fight.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 ...
Rev Miak Siew from the inclusive Free Community Church in Singapore has responded to 'megachurch' pastor Lawrence Khong's comments that attempts to repeal an anti-gay law is a 'looming threat' . Rev Siew wrote a piece for LGBT Asia website Fridae arguing that the bible doesn't value t...
The LGBT rights movement in Singapore has been mainly dominated by gay men, but Gay Star News met Jean Chong of lesbian group Sayoni and discovered that sisters are doing it for themselves. Did you have any role models when you were growing up as a lesbian in Singapore? No, I always w...
A Singaporean gay couple will challenge the country’s rarely enforced sodomy law which they say labels them as criminals. Gary Lim and Kenneth Chee, who have been partners for 15 years, filed their challenge with Singapore’s High Court after the country’s Court of Appeals dropped a so...
The employers of a bus driver who verbally abused a Singaporean trans woman have agreed to formally discipline him. Leona Lo complained to bus company SBS transit after one of their drivers shouted ‘Ah Kua’ (a slur for effeminate men or trans women) ‘and adopted a woman’s gait as he “...
Singapore’s Court of Appeal has decided that a constitutional challenge to the country’s colonial era law banning sex between men can go ahead. In March, Singapore’s High Court dismissed the challenge, filed by Tan Eng Hong, a man who was caught having oral sex with another man in a p...
