The IGLHRC reports that nine men including a well known gay activist in the western African country have been sentenced to jail sentences higher than the maximum provided for under the law.
Specially commissioned for this year's M1 Singapore Fringe Festival, Raised as a Pack of Wolves continues Singaporean lesbian artist Genevieve Chua's explorations of queer visibility and sexuality.
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.
One man was killed and 36 others injured as a massive blaze swept through a shopping and residential complex in Bangkok's Chinatown district on Sunday night, just days after a fire at a nightclub in the Thai capital claimed dozens.
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.
Along with frequently used insults "bitch" and "slut", "that's so gay" has joined the club and is used by schoolchildren and adults alike to put others down. Shinen Wong reflects on the use of commonly used slurs by gay and straight people alike.
A Hong Kong actor's homophobic remarks on radio, a Singapore TV station being fined S$15,000 for showing a ''normal'' gay family, an interview with a HIV+ spokesman in Taiwan are just a few stories that got you talking.
The Catholic Archdiocese of Singapore says it does not support the repeal of laws that criminalise gay sex acts, and "persons with homosexual tendencies (orientation) should refrain from irresponsible sexual acts."
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