Archives 1998

Abbreviations are explained in the column on the right of the screen.

Month	Title, etc		Relevance
Dec 1998	CNN: Lee Kuan Yew and the gay question - a gay man called in to CNN Riz Khan's interview of Lee Kuan Yew to raise the gay issue		Pol, Med
Dec 1998	Mandarin and the Singapore identity - the Speak Mandarin campaign and the subtext of keeping Singapore culturally Chinese		Pol, Soc, Kno
Dec 1998	Mandarin and southern Chinese - a linguistic history of Chinese, and did you know that Mandarin has been the "standard" Chinese only since 1913?		Soc, Kno
Dec 1998	The second parable of Erp - a fiasco with out electronic toll and what it says about public administration in Singapore		Pol, Hum
Dec 1998	The mortification of Jill - the saga of a pro-gay newspaper column gone wrong		Med, Hom
Dec 1998	Questions from Trinidad - what a straight guy asked gave clues to pre-assumptions		Hom
Dec 1998	Tax the burger - eating out in Singapore is unhealthy, what shall we do about it?		Soc, Oth [nutrition]
Dec 1998	Study finds growing cynicism among Singaporeans - more people than 5 years ago believe they can't influence government policy		Pol
Dec 1998	Cinema: Selya and Beautiful Thing - two movies buzzing around the gay grapevine		Med, Hom
Nov 1998	Twenty questions - an all-time favourite for gays and lesbians coming out and wanting to give their parents a sheet of paper to read		Hom, Kno
Nov 1998	Without cover of the Covenant  - Chia Thye Poh is released after 32 of jail and confinement without trial		Pol, Law
Nov 1998	Ball lightning, ghosts and other outlaws - when we can't explain something, do we deny its existence?		Kno
Nov 1998	The why-nots of human rights - minister George Yeo says we must include economic development, history, culture		Pol
Oct 1998	The fallout from being made - why the Christian Church is obsessed about the purpose of sex		Rel
Oct 1998	Symposium: homosexuality and the Church - the protestant denominations are beginning to address the gay issue, but the bottom line has to be wrong, wrong, wrong!		Rel, Hom
Oct 1998	Five tales from Siem Reap - monsoon, digging wells, wanting to be modern and getting laid		Hum, Per
Oct 1998	Counter demonstration in Phnom Penh - Hun Sen's government's show of force while I toured the Silver Pagoda and the National Museum		Pol, Per
Oct 1998	Building barricades, building institutions - when governments fail to build institutions, people may take to building barricades		Pol
Oct 1998	Demonstration in Phnom Penh - I arrived the week anti-government demonstrations reached their peak. The riot police open fire. I stand behind a tree.		Pol, Per
Sep 1998	Straits Times' coverage of the Prof Lee murder trial - were the reports homophobic? were they sensationalist?		Law, Med, Hom
Sep 1998	Big brother's name is Erp - our electronic road pricing system records who is where, at all times		Pol, Law, Oth [technology]
Aug 1998	21st century geopolitics - which countries will be the major players for the next 50 years?		Pol
Aug 1998	Starting with the right to party - some passers-by noticed that a long queue of men waiting to get into a disco, said 'gay'		Hom
Aug 1998	Playing with Dynamite, part 1 - someone whom I know is hauled to a police station, accused of toilet sex		Hom, Per
Aug 1998	Playing with Dynamite, part 2 - the police seem to treat homosexuality as public nuisance		Law, Hom
Aug 1998	The tyranny of loving marriage - the norm that we have created and aspire to, of life-long marriage, can be a tyranny		Soc
Aug 1998	Essence and fluidity - some people say sexuality is fluid; what do they mean?		Hom
Aug 1998	Asiaweek: Gays in Asia - a poor quality cover story from Asiaweek magazine		Med, Hom
Jul 1998	Lunch with my boss - we talked about homosexuality		Hom, Per
Jul 1998	Should we out celebrities who pretend to be straight? - by reinforcing the heterosexist paradigm, don't they hurt gay and lesbian people?		Med, Hom
Jul 1998	Sexual orientation may be determined at 6th week of foetal life - through the effect of hormones on the developing brain		Hom, Kno
Jul 1998	Football and gay men - why are so few gay men interested in this sport?		Soc. Hom
Jun 1998	Gay = hard-on and hardcore - do we deny this?		Hom, Hum
Jun 1998	Aunt Webby letters, part 1 - someone wrote Pacific Net's agony aunt saying he's gay		Hom
Jun 1998	Aunt Webby letters, part 2 - analysis of the letters in response		Hom
May 1998	When an autocratic government collapses, what saves a state? - musings from the fall of Indonesia's Suharto		Pol
May 1998	The foothills of the heart - the littler loves of our lives		Hum, Per
May 1998	The conflict between culture and religion - distinguishing the two; examples of conflict; homosexuality is one		Soc
May 1998	Building civil society behind closed doors - the IPS' civil society conference wasn't open to the media and some people won't speak on record		Pol
May 1998	Coppelia and the Malecon - films and the way we see the world		Med, Per
May 1998	The Foyer - waiting to see a gay film		Hum
Apr 1998	Out games - what people do when they're proud to be gay		Hom, Hum, Per
Apr 1998	Single-issue people - valuing those who may irk us		Hum
Apr 1998	Funerary statues - the images we like to project of ourselves, as seen from St Paul's in London, to the Vietnam Memorial in Washington DC, to rum shops in Barbados and lesbian pubs		Soc, Hum
Apr 1998	Disowning - why do families resort to this?		Soc, Hom
Apr 1998	When parents find out - just because you've decided never to tell them doesn't mean they will never find out		Hom
Apr 1998	Film censorship: speak no blowjob - our nannies won't allow any jokes involving oral sex		Med
Mar 1998	A cry from Kuwait - a lesbian trapped by her culture		Hom
mar 1998	Looking for service - giving a little thought to places with excellent service, when there is no service		Soc, Oth [design]
Feb 1998	Bazaar Malay - how the vanishing of this street patois tells a bigger demographic story		Soc
Feb 1998	The microcosmos of boy a-go-go - the dynamics of the 'boy bars' of Bangkok		Soc, Hom, Oth [business]
Feb 1998	Try some of this pie - gay men share food more readily than straight men		Hom, Hum
Feb 1998	Knowing the human genetic code unveils new inequalities - DNA sequencing and the implications for our ideals of justice an equality		Soc, Kno
Jan 1998	Chinese New Year - gay survival strategies		Hom, Hum
Jan 1998	Workplace and culture change - the workplace can drive culture change		Soc