A picnic to be held at the Botanic Gardens on Singapore's National Day and organised as part of Singapore's pride festival has become the latest victim of the country's anti-gay system.
Following a widely publicised ban of a photographic exhibition depicting same-sex couples kissing, a scheduled lecture by a Canadian law professor on anti-gay laws has been banned by the authorities.
For the first time in the history of forums on gay issues in Singapore, a member of parliament from the ruling People's Action Party and a Nominated Member of Parliament were part of a 5-member panel convened to discuss whether homosexual acts should remain criminalised.
Ordained as a pastor at the Metropolitan Community Church in New York in May, Oyoung Wenfeng, an award-winning Malaysian journalist and columnist, tells Fridae about coming out as a gay man and his plans to set up an all-inclusive church in Malaysia in 2010.
No stranger to the lesbian community in Singapore, Iris Judotter has become the first out lesbian to launch an album. Catch her at The Arts House this Saturday singing original songs from her self-produced and released debut album, The Importance of Being!
If you are a lesbian, heterosexual man or woman in Melbourne, the management of a gay bar can now legally refuse you entry after a tribunal ruled that the bar has the right to protect their gay male patrons from being harassed and/or "gawked at" as if they were exhibits in a zoo.
For the first time in Singapore, Christians from both sides of the camp, including two heavyweight theologians, will share their perspectives on the controversial issue at a dialogue session organised by a gay Christian group.
Solos - undoubtedly the most sexually explicit gay movie to be made in Singapore - will not be screened at a local film festival as censors demand three cuts to the 77-minute dialogue-less film.
Lesbian director Loretta Chen and gay playwright Ng Yi-Sheng want audiences to see one Singapore's most internationally known icons, porn actress Annabel Chong, in a different light. Their play 251 opens this Thursday.
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