Ryan T. Smith and Wendy Rein from San Francisco's RAWdance who are performing in Singapore as part of M1 Singapore Fringe Festival tells more about their performance Fallout, narrow-minded 'conservative' family values and politics.
The shows in this year's M1 Singapore Fringe Festival are all about love and family - estranged love and alternative families, that is. Fridae previews the line-up.
Johann S. Lee, author of Singapore's first gay novel Peculiar Chris, has made a breakthrough with his third book - it's far better written than any other gay novel from this country so far. Reviewer Ng Yi-Sheng attends the launch and weighs in on the story.
Buds Theatre Company brings us a funny, uplifting play about a gay man and a lesbian woman, to be performed stand-up comedy style at Play Bar and Club, Singapore, this weekend, 20-23 November 2008.
Just this month, award-winning lesbian cartoonist Alison Bechdel has published The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For, a bumper collection of 25 years of her work. Fridae chats with her about her life, her views, and her recent bout with censorship.
Fridae speaks to one of the stars of the Singapore Biennale art exhibition, Australian queer activist/artist Deborah Kelly and finds out more about activism through art and her latest work called "Beware of the God" which warns against the influence of religion on politics.
Journalist/songwriter Dr Ng King Kang publishes his second book on homosexuality in Singapore, a compilation of results from a survey of political and social attitudes towards gay men since 1990.
A new statistical study by Prof Femke Olyslager and Prof Emeritus Lynn Conway suggests Singapore rates for male-to-female transsexuals are over 1 in 2,000, whereas rates for female-to-male transsexuals are over 1 in 4,000.
Young film director Boo Junfeng talks about Tanjong Rhu, his newly completed short film based on an incident when 12 men in Singapore were arrested for gay cruising.
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