Archives 2000

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

Month	Title, etc		Relevance
Dec 2000	Buffalo pens - the politics of renaming places		Pol, Soc
Dec 2000	Where Have Eternal Life Banners Gone? - do gay Singaporeans' use of the internet reach back and impact Singapore society?		Soc, Hom, Per
Dec 2000	Radio journalists ask the gay question - Lee Kuan Yew interviewed over National Public Radio (US) and Lee Hsien Loong interviewed by BBC.		Law, Med, Hom
Oct 2000	Talaq and religious freedom - the pay Talaq was banned when the Islamic council objected		Pol, Soc, Rel
Oct 2000	Our Own Ozymandias - Tang Dynasty City comes to an end, and there's a lesson in it		Pol, Soc
Oct 2000	Baby bust, part 1 - our modern idea of work is incompatible with having children		Soc
Oct 2000	Boxers come full circle -  - ever heard of the Boxer Rebellion? the one in 1999?		Pol
Jun 2000	Men's natural resources - that's how some men see and treat women, nad 'butch lesbians' are stealing their 'rightful' resources		Soc, Hom
Jun 2000	My forum was banned - the government refused to license a forum to discuss the place of gay citizens in this country		Pol, Law, Hom
Apr 2000	Finger length - sexual orientation may be determined while in the womb, and gay men may be more "male" than straight men		Hom, Kno
Apr 2000	Boys of beauty: how our media handled a gay story - quite different responses from foreign, local Chinese and local English media		Med
Mar 2000	Censorship rules for print and audio - MITA has a pamphlet detailed its rules. They're mindless.		Pol, Med, Hom
Mar 2000	Is the 'Singapore' label disreputable? - the HK public were jubilant that Singtel failed to get HK Telecom		Pol, Oth
Mar 2000	Insurrection in St Andrew's Cathedral - Archbishop Moses Tay consecrates 2 American bishops		Rel
Mar 2000	Touchstones of memory - save the red brick National Library Building!		Pol, Hum, Per
Mar 2000	Rebalancing visibility - toilet cruising spoils the image of gay men, what can we do about it?		Soc, Hom
Mar 2000	Feudal mindsets extant in Dubai and Malaysia - how the political elite treat their own people and how they see international relations		Pol, Soc
Mar 2000	Child's play - my father learns to surf and email, why new technology is more difficult to learn about, the older we get		Hum, Per
Mar 2000	Sexophobic sex education - the purpose of our sex ed program is not to educate, but to instill the mandated phobia; the Straits Times edited my letter heavily		Soc, Kno
Mar 2000	The slightly mad in the breach -  pack away the Societies Act and the Internal Security Act, says sociologist Nirmala Purushotam		Pol, Soc, Kno
Feb 2000	Security clearance - the government risks its own security (and the state's) by hounding gay people out of the administration		Pol, Hom
Feb 2000	Clinton on gays and lesbians, George Yeo on the talented - the things our government says are so dispiriting and off-putting		Pol, Hom
Feb 2000	Anwar, Badawi, and feeling detached - across the causeway, it's really a foreign land		Pol, Soc
Feb 2000	Whither ASEAN? - What purpose does ASEAN serve and how can it have a future when it contains rogues like the Burmese junta?		Pol
Feb 2000	Life in 1964, part 2 - Life magazine had a cover story on gays in America 36 years ago.		Soc, Hom, Kno
Feb 2000	Life in 1964, part 1 - Life magazine had a cover story on gays in America 36 years ago.		Soc, Hom,
Feb 2000	Three takes on cruising - observations and stories from a part of our lives we shouldn't be embarrassed about		Hom, Per
Feb 2000	I saw a man blow his nose - and Asian Values came out; why strong families may mean weak societies		Pol, Soc
Jan 2000	TV series: Queer as folk - a revolution in broadcast TV, but not yet in Singapore		Med, Hom
Jan 2000	Man jailed over sex toys - Section 292 of the Penal Code was used to jail a man for importing rubber dolls		Law
Jan 2000	Debacle in Seattle - riots broke out and the WTO conference collapsed; free trade and American-style capitalism are not inevitable		Pol