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August 04, 2007
GLBT Events Banned
PrideDEPOT and SFGate carried separate reports of two Indignation 2007 events banned by Singapore authorities.
SFGate's report titled "Singapore Bans Gay Kissing Photos" says,
Singapore's censors have banned an exhibition of photographs depicting gay men and women kissing, a gay rights activist said, calling the move "absurd."The city-state's Media Development Authority denied organizers a license because the photographs "promote a homosexual lifestyle," Alex Au, founder of a Singapore gay rights group, People Like Us, told The Associated Press Wednesday.
PD's report titled "Singapore Police Ban Gay Rights Forum" says,
Singapore’s Ministry of Home Affairs put the clamp down on a gay rights forum that was intended to discuss sexual orientation and international law at Thailand’s Chulalongkorn University on Aug. 7 because “the event is contrary to public interest.”Retired Canadian law professor Douglas Sanders was to speak at the event titled, “Sexual Orientation in International Law: The Case of Asia,” until government authorities shut it down.
Immigration authorities rejected Sander’s visa application, Singapore’s Home Affairs Ministry said.
Trackback from Hypocrisy and Gahmen go Hand-in-Hand:
Perhaps it's just that anyone can be gay, but not Singaporeans. We need to procreate....
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We cannot allow our society to be taken over by a bunch of religious fundamentalists who would take their religious beliefs and make them the law of the land. That is religious persecution. ...
Trackback from In the pink cancelled:
The organiser received a letter from the National Parks Board over the weekend denying permission for the use of the Botanic Gardens for what it called “organised gatherings… by interest groups to politicise their cause”....
Trackback from singapore bans gay picnic:
But their misapprehension is not surprising, since anti-gay elements are constantly painting every gay activity as dangerous and subversive....
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"The organiser received a letter from the National Parks Board (NPB) over the weekend denying permission for the use of the Botanic Gardens for what it deemed “organised gatherings... by interest groups to politicise their cause.”...
Trackback from Picking on a picnic:
It was Thio Li-Ann who started it...
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Trackback from The full paper by Prof Douglas Sanders entitled "377 and the unnatural afterlife of British colonialism":