In the wake of the AWARE saga, Deputy Prime Minister Wong Kan Seng makes a statement to reiterate the Government’s position on 377A.

Read the full article at Today Newspaper Online. 

This video has been released in the lead up to the PinkDot event on May 16. For more information visit: pinkdot.sg
Click on the image below to launch the YouTube video in a new window.

SUPPORT LGBT SINGAPOREANS AND THEIR FREEDOM TO LOVE: COME AND BE PART OF THE PINK DOT ON 16 MAY Do you support the freedom of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people to love? Then show your support by joining our smart mob at Hong Lim Park on 16 May, 4.30pm! This is NOT a protest nor a parade, just a simple call for open-minded Singaporeans to come together to form a pink dot, of which aerial photographs will be taken. This pink dot is a celebration of diversity and equality, and a symbol of Singapore’s more inclusive future.

• Venue: The field at Hong Lim Park
• Date & Time: May 16 (Sat), 4.30pm
• What to wear: Pink (caps, hats, glasses, sunglasses and accessories are recommended.)
• What to bring: Anyone who supports the freedom of LGBT Singaporeans to love.
• What to expect: The human pink dot will be formed by around 5pm and a photograph will be taken from a vantage point nearby.

To pledge your attendance, please click here
For updates, please join Pink Dot Sg on Facebook
Or visit the official Pink Dot SG website
This event is 100% legal; no registration is required

WEB BANNERS (show your support and put a PinkDot banner on your webpage)

A comprehensive wrap-up of events which saw Singaporean women (and men) turn out in droves to ensure that the country’s most prominent women’s organisation, AWARE (Association of Women for Action and Research) remains true to its mission, regardless of race, religion or sexual orientation.
See the All About AWARE post from The Online Citizen blog.

Singapore has banned the sale of an Xbox video game that features an intimate scene between two female characters, a statement received Thursday said.

The “Mass Effect” game, a futuristic space adventure, contains “a scene of lesbian intimacy… as such the game has been disallowed,” the deputy director of the Board of Film Censors said in the statement.
[Read the full article]

As Singapore attempts to become a global city like London and New York, there will be more diversity, more debates and more issues that generate plenty of emotion.

But if the recent debate on Section 377A is anything to go by, Singaporeans have a lot to learn about how to persuade others of the rightness of their cause.
[Read the full article]

Irate gamers criticized Singapore’s censors Thursday for banning a highly anticipated space adventure game containing a sex scene between a human woman and a female alien.

The game, called Mass Effect, is the first from Microsoft to be prohibited in the city-state. It was to be launched next week.

Microsoft submitted Mass Effect last week to the Media Development Authority (MDA) as part of the routine procedure to get games distributed.

‘We respect MDA’s decision,’ a company spokesman said.

The scene triggering the ban depicts the human-alien duo in suggestive positions and ends with the alien saying, ‘By the Gods, that was incredible, Commander.’

Homosexual scenes in other media such as films are rarely allowed and shown only if they do not promote a gay lifestyle.
[Read the full article]

PEOPLE who wrote to newspapers 30 years ago used to be known as ‘Angry’, ‘Anxious’ and even ‘Disturbed’.

Now, however, they come out into the open and sign off with their real names - Denis Distant, Leong Sze Hian and, once upon a time, Vivian Balakrishnan.

Some may see this willingness to be named as a maturing of public debate. But have we really grown up?

Witness the anonymous postings on the Internet on the debate on section 377A. Both homosexuals and those for retention of the section dealt low blows at their opponents.
[Read the full article]

It looked innocuous enough - A brown envelope with a single, printed A4 sheet inside.

But the contents of this letter were hateful enough - indeed, the words “hate”, “hatred” and “hurt” were repeated no less than 10 times - that its recipient made a police report on Monday night. It is the second police report Nominated Member of Parliament Thio Li-ann has made in three months.

But while she has said she will not sue her first antagonist, poet Alfian Sa’at, who sent her a four-sentence insulting email, the situation is different now.
[Read the full article]

IF THE police, on a tip-off, raid a flat for suspected drug offenders and discover no drugs but gay sex instead, would they prosecute?

NUS law don Michael Hor says this scenario could arise from the government’s stand that it would not be proactive in enforcing S377A.

‘Does the non-enforcement policy cover this, for it might be argued that the police were not ‘pro-active’?’ he wrote in a new book of essays launched on Tuesday.
[Read the full article]