Different spaces and even a different context of the use of the spaces have different behavioural conventions inscribed on them, and people have generally come to respect the prevailing convention. Should the police leave cruising grounds alone if the unwitting public is very unlikely to stumble on any activity?
Prominent Singapore blogger and gay activist Alex Au notes that the police is back to entrapping gay cruisers after not having done so in 16 years, and explains how the police decoy in such instances could be said to have given consent (even if non-verbal) to be approached.
Last weekend, London's gay pride parade celebrated 40 years since the formation of the Gay Liberation Front in Britain. Longtime gay and human rights activist Peter Tatchell asks in a commentary: After 40 years of gains on homophobic law repeal, is there any more need for a separate identity?
Can we talk about "barebacking"? You know, unprotected anal sex between men. Sex without a condom. "Raw" sex. Or, if you prefer the almost comically clinical language of early safer sex education, sex during which "bodily fluids" may be "exchanged."
The Anglican Global South, which John Chew, head of the Anglican Church in Singapore, now also leads has basically just one raison d'etre: to stoke the fire of intolerance against gay people. And why is the Singapore Anglican Church even in the Global South network?
Columnist Joseph Gonzales of the Freeman, a newspaper in Cebu, Philippines reacts to the news that although the Supreme Court has recognised Ang Ladlad to be a legitimate political party, it has said that the decision is not meant to suggest the "impending arrival of a golden age for gay rights litigants."
The recent cancellation of a planned Asian-wide conference of gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people in Surabaya reveals how far our society is from respecting human rights — and how close it is to slipping into religious fascism, writes Bramantyo Prijosusilo.
A common opinion is that gay relationships are less permanent than straight ones... but do or should we aspire towards having committed lifelong relationships? Openly gay Singaporean man Otto Fong shares his views in response to a recent article on Time.com.
The following report was produced by a team of five lawyers and civil rights activists after newspapers widely reported the story of Dr. SR Siras who had been unknowingly filmed in his home having consensual sex with another adult male and subsequently suspended by the university he works at.
Over 80 academics from universities across India and elsewhere have signed an open letter in support of Dr. S R Siras, who was suspended from his university job, after being the victim of an alleged 'sting' operation in which he was filmed without his consent.
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