Archives 2002

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

Month	Title, etc		Relevance
Dec 2002	Why looking for a job is so hard - urban illiteracy and not even getting to the job interview		Soc, Per
Dec 2002	When all we know of government policy is a sample of one - when government policy is kept shrouded, we can only speculate from specific cases seen		Pol, Hom
Dec 2002	When morality is lethal - the anti-sex brigade keep talking abstinence		Soc
Dec 2002	Turning fifty - the watershed birthday		Per
Dec 2002	Junior minister notes gay sheep - the government may be finally acknowledging that homosexuality is an innate condition		Pol, Hom
Dec 2002	Déjà vu, the unipolar world - there's nothing ahistorical about a single superpower		Pol
Dec 2002	Preventive detention - given the reality of terror networks right in our midst, is the Internal Security Act defensible?		Pol, Law
Dec 2002	Four-legged critters first - all news is filtered, but some, like Heather and her 2 mommies, are filtered out altogether		Med, Hom
Oct 2002	SAS 2001: the media reports - how the local media reported on the government's survey on social attitudes, including homosexuality		Soc. Med, Hom
Oct 2002	SAS 2001: the first monograph - the government releases its survey results with a question touching on homosexuality		Pol, Soc, Hom, Kno
Sep 2002	Price increases symptomise the failure of our political system - ncreases in bus fares, parking charges, hospital fees in the midst of a recession		Pol
Sep 2002	Thorny water - between Singapore and Malaysia, the subject is water, but the issue is pride		Pol
Sep 2002	In search of the absolute truth - the third precept - whether Buddhism says homosexuality is wrong, from the Remaking Singapore Forum		Rel, Hom
Sep 2002	In search of absolute truth - Leviticus, Corinthians and Romans - - a debate about these oft-cited Biblical passages in the Remaking Singapore Forum		Rel, Hom
Sep 2002	In search of absolute truth - the common denominator thesis - since all religions, allegedly, condemn homosexuality, it must be the absolute truth		Soc, Rel, Hom
Sep 2002	Sodom in Pakistan - present-day tribal society has ways similar to that described in the Old Testament		Law, Soc, Rel, Hom
Aug 2002	Granny Tew's maid - bleeding, pale and cold, and sent home		Soc, Hum
Aug 2002	Malay responses to homosexuality -  friends in a bar and Southeast Asian constructions of gender		Soc, Hom, Per
Aug 2002	The new healthcare insecurity - our healthcare costs are soaring and people are left in the dust		Soc
Aug 2002	Remaking Singapore: the homosexuality thread -  a selection of other Singaporeans' voices on this topic		Soc, Hom
Jul 2002	Raiding our minds - why we're so susceptible to rumours about police raids of gay bars and spas		Hom
Jul 2002	The case for discrimination - fat passengers, racial profiling and Pim Fortuyn		Soc
May 2002	Pius Primus - in a sense I was already gay by age 14.		Per
May 2002	Any boy bars in Singapore? - what are the factors that give rise to such an industry?		Soc, Hom
May 2002	A barricade of mendicants - what big wreaths and condolence advertisements say about us		Soc
May 2002	The leech on the trannie's bum -  a Scottish newspaper does a feature on Singapore, and without fail, Bugis Street comes up.		Med
May 2002	Attack the crack! - the mysteries of quality control in massage parlours		Hom, Oth
Apr 2002	Ownership is not a title deed - a high rate of home-ownership, yet no commitment to Singapore as home		Pol, Soc
Apr 2002	OG magazine second time around -The New Paper front-paged a story about a student posing nude for OG magazine		Soc, Med
Apr 2002	Scruffy and the world economy - the global free market may not be as rosy a future as we think		Pol, Soc
Apr 2002	Is globalisation truly the future? - US steel tariffs, massive protests by the Chinese unemployed... are we still charging ahead?		Pol, Soc
Mar 2002	Teens magazine: the world of homosexuality -  a gay-friendly article appeared in a local magazine aimed at teenagers		Med, Hom
Mar 2002	Malaysia and Singapore: a conflict of insecurities -  why these two countries have a hard time getting along with each other		Pol
Mar 2002	Over claypot rice - why gay people interrogate their religions about their stands on homosexuality		Rel, Hom, Hum
Mar 2002	Hard-edged - some religions require exclusivity and identification; some cultures require the same of sexuality		Soc, Rel
Mar 2002	Dunman Integrated in September 1964 - a school full of 13-year-olds of various races, and communal riots break out just a kilometre or two away		Soc, Per
Mar 2002	Deconstructing 'natural law' - a look at the biases underlying seemingly logical arguments about how homosexuality is a disorder		Rel, Hom
Mar 2002	Why a common language is important - so long as different communities speak different languages, segregation will be unavoidable		Soc
Mar 2002	The uselessness of history - from the communal riots in Gujerat, to stalemate in Palestine, to Taiwan, history provides no solution		Pol
Feb 2002	Multiculturalism in a saucedish -  hired a non-Chinese employee, but was I addressing a non-problem?		Soc, Per
Feb 2002	Strip if you're conservative - they say the Chinese are conservative, if so, why do they happily walk around naked?		Soc, Kno
Jan 2002	Shanghai: two bathhouses - I visited two public baths known for their concentrations of 'our kind of people'.		Soc, Per
Jan 2002	Slow dancing in Nanjing - the best part of a gay bar in Nanjing was on its dance floor		Soc, Hom
Jan 2002	Shanghai: four bars - a brief report on four gay bars I recently visited in Shanghai		Hom, Per
Jan 2002	Public space, private space - sex in public is an offence... but what's public?		Pol, Soc
Jan 2002	Religion in BurgerKing - where does one draw the line between religion and cult?		Rel
Jan 2002	Follow me but not too closely please - internalised guilt, fear and overcompensation in gay males		Hom
Jan 2002	What's worse than AIDS?  Sex! - a state government in Malaysia wants to ban condoms, except for married couples		Soc, Rel, Kno
Jan 2002	Hercules and the beach - my first visit to two suburban saunas in Bangkok		Hom, Per