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• Same-sex marriage in Singapore

  It is perhaps premature to talk about legalising same-sex marriage in Singapore when, at a more basic level, Section 377A of the Penal Code still criminalises sex between men. Needless to say, because of

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• Gay men in the Singapore Armed Forces

  All male Singaporean citizens and non-first generation permanent residents, including homosexual, bisexual and male-at-birth transgender individuals, who have reached the age of 18 years are required to enroll for National Service under

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• Singapore gay saunas

  Before the 1990s, homosexual and bisexual men in Singapore had to journey all the way to Bangkok, Thailand to experience the pleasures that gay saunas offered. It became more convenient in the early 90s when

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• Mandarin slang

  Mandarin Chinese profanity most commonly involves sexual references and scorn of the object's ancestors, especially their mother. Other Mandarin insults accuse people of not being human. Compared to English, scatological and blasphemous references are

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• Shogun (Singapore gay sauna)

  Shogun is a gay sauna located on level 2, 51A Pagoda Street; telephone number 6221-0367, SMS 9758-7514. This is its fourth consecutive address in the heart of Chinatown. Shogun started life as The

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• PES

  PES is an acronym for Physical Employment Status or PULHHEEMS Employment Status. It is a grading system originally devised by the United Kingdom's armed forces to determine the suitability of deploying military personnel for

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• The Singapore LGBT encyclopaedia

  This wiki aims to provide readers with comprehensive information regarding Singapore LGBT culture and history. It was set up by Roy Tan and attempts to integrate all the disparate sources of information on Singapore's

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• Singapore LGBT surveys

  It is not known exactly how many LGBT people there are in Singapore. The Census of Population, which is done once every ten years, does not keep track of this demographic. The situation is not

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• Child adoption by same-sex couples in Singapore

  Before 2022, adoption used to be an option for gay and lesbian couples who yearned for a child but did not want to go through the travails of pregnancy, failed medically assisted insemination or surrogacy

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• Public housing for LGBT Singaporeans

  Public housing in Singapore is restricted by official policy, favouring "family units" which include prenuptial couples, newlyweds and childless heterosexual couples who have been married for a long time. The Housing and Development Board (HDB

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• K Shanmugam's views on homosexuality

  K Shanmugam is a lawyer and politician who is a member of the People's Action Party (PAP). He has been the Minister of Law since May 2008 and the Minister for Home Affairs since

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• PrEP in Singapore

  Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is the use of medication to prevent the spread of disease in people who have not yet been exposed to a pathogen, usually a virus. The term typically refers to the

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• Singapore gay censorship

  Official prohibition of the portrayal of positive images of LGBT people in the mainstream media exacerbates ignorance of and fuels discrimination against the community. It is a violation of the human right to freedom of

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• Bugis Street: transgender aspects

  Bugis Street is a well known shopping thoroughfare in modern-day Singapore located in the central region. From the 1950s to the mid-1980s, it was a gathering place for members of the male-to

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• Section 377A of the Penal Code (Singapore)

  "Gross indecency" is usually taken to mean all forms of non-penetrative sex (eg. mutual masturbation) between two males regardless of age. This stands in contrast with the former Section 377, known as the

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• Vellama d/o Marie Muthu v. Attorney-General

  Vellama d/o Marie Muthu v. Attorney-General was a 2013 decision of the Court of Appeal of Singapore which held that Article 49(1) of the Constitution requires the Prime Minister to call a

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• Wear White

  Wear White is an anti-LGBT movement in Singapore founded by Islamic religious leader Ustaz Noor Deros in 2014. It was taken over by Christian Pastor Lawrence Khong in 2016 but, after a five-year

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• Roy Tan

  Roy Tan (born 1958) is a healthcare professional passionately interested in documenting Singapore's LGBT history. He was one of the most active contributors of local LGBT-related news articles to the Singapore gay news

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• Same-sex parenting in Singapore

  Although generally under the radar of mainstream society, many LGBT Singaporeans have become parents through various means including via current or former conventional marital and extramarital relationships, coparenting, adoption, foster care and more recently, donor

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• PAP MPs against the repeal of Section 377A

  During the parliamentary debate on 22 and 23 October 2007 over the Parliamentary petition to repeal Section 377A of the Penal Code which criminalises sex between men, the People's Action Party (PAP) members of

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• Free Community Church

  The Free Community Church, located since June 2014 at#02-01, One Commonwealth, is a congregation of diverse individuals and families gathering to worship and grow as a Christian community. Its stakeholders' mission is to

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• Singapore LGBT organisations

  This article is a list which gives equal weightage to each LGBT group in Singapore. However, not all groups wield the same influence and significance in Singapore's LGBT history. For a chronological narrative of

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• Singapore transgender history

  The Hikayat Panji Semirang (Tale of Prince Semirang), an epic poem which dates from the 14th century and tells of the adventures of a sexually fluid hero, Panji Semirang, was well known and beloved throughout

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• Sy Rogers

  Sy Rogers (also known as Synclair or Sinclair Rogers II) (15 December 1956 - 19 April 2020[1]) was a charismatic American ex-gay Christian pastor with a dramatic story of success in changing his sexual

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• Raffles Institution

  Raffles Institution (RI), founded in 1823, is the oldest and widely considered to be one of the most prestigious schools in Singapore for pre-tertiary education. It is an independent school, providing secondary education through

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