Archives 2003

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

Month	Title, etc		Relevance
Sep 2003	What's love got to do with it? - marriage is a property transaction and it's really strange that conveyancing takes place in church		Soc
Sep 2003	Censorship review - a bit more loosening for the wrong reasons - a committee recommends that we should give more leeway to homosexual content		Pol, Soc, Med
Sep 2003	Another acronym into the bin - the report of the Economic Review Committee (ERC) merely echoes the government's stance		Pol
Aug 2003	When bar-top dancing turns into a morality tale - more muddle, more pettiness, more feet-dragging, and more boasting by the PM about how he's loosening up Singapore		Pol
Aug 2003	Ushers and carpenters - out Tourism officials are keen on the display of foreign flesh, and it just shows how wrong our priorities are		Pol
Aug 2003	ICAS3 - a conference in the quarantine zone - among the thousands attending were a large number of queer scholars, an unreported first-ever here		Pol, Hom
Aug 2003	Reflections on a meeting with the Venerable Shi Ming Yi - a group of us met a well-regarded Buddhist monk, and here are some thoughts		Soc, Rel, Hom
Aug 2003	Ex-gay ministries and the "cures" that don't work - fortunately, some survived to tell.		Rel, Hom
Aug 2003	A sermon from MUIS - what the governing body for Islam in Singapore said about homosexuality		Rel, Hom
Aug 2003	A re-ordered society - the fear that if gay people are treated equally in the eyes of the state and the law, the world will be turned upside down		Soc, Rel, Hom
Aug 2003	Gay tutorial- the reports in Wanbao and Shinmin - the press reports of the program "OK, no problem"		Med, Hom
Aug 2003	Gay tutorial on Malay TV - the 'Detik' program of the Suria channel broke ground with its balanced discussion of homosexuality		Soc, Med, Rel, Hom
Aug 2003	Gay tutorial on Chinese TV - channel u's program "OK, no problem" on 30 July featured an on-air coming-out by a Singaporean		Soc, Med, Hom
Jul 2003	Statement by the National Council of Churches, and rebuttals - the NNCS is trying to impose their homophobia onto Singaporeans by pressing the government to align their laws and policies with them		Pol, Rel, Hom
Jul 2003	Currents of change - what may be the downstream effects of having openly gay people in the civil service?		Pol, Soc, Hom
Jul 2003	Four weeks after Time zero - why is there at all a gay debate in the media? Is it directed by the government?		Pol, Hom
Jul 2003	Playing fast and loose with science - C K Ho shows how the Christian fundamentalists misquote scientific studies, through an analysis of the COOS letters		Rel, Hom, Kno
Jul 2003	COOS pastor wants "a nation of righteous Christians" - a fundamentalist church aims to impose its agenda on all Singaporeans, through half-truths.		Rel, Hom, KNo
Jul 2003	Bungee jumping gets you nowhere - have you noticed that this new freedom still requires you to be tethered by your ankles?		Pol
Jul 2003	Two weeks after Time zero - after 2 hectic weeks of non-stop talk about the gay issue in the media, is the road ahead any clearer?		Pol, Hom
Jul 2003	Letters NOT in the Straits Times, 18 July 2003 - after George Lim's anti-gay rant was published in the Straits Times on 15 July, the newspaper got 145 responses to the issue. Here are 4 letters that didn't make it to print		Med, Hom
Jul 2003	Time is ripe to look at laws - a commentary that I contributed to 'Today' newspaper, about the need to re-look at our anti-gay laws and censorship		Pol, Law, Hom
Jul 2003	The monkey on their backs - a personal statement as we launch the second applicat		Pol, Med, Hom
Jul 2003	Do Singaporeans approve of gay marriage? - never mind the figures, it must be no		Soc, Med, Hom
Jul 2003	Straits Times editorial: Gay tolerance - a close reading of an unusually gay-friendly editorial		Pol, Med, Hom
Jul 2003	Gay civil servants, and what next? - Time magazine quoted PM Goh saying gay civil servants can even hold sensitive positions		Pol, Med, Hom
Jul 2003	Three raids in a week - there were 3 police checks on 2 sex clubs, and we've never felt safer!		Law, Hom, Kno
Jun 2003	Cleo magazine - five lesbians speak - a rare story where gay persons speak for themselves, complete with face photos		Med, Hom
Jun 2003	Vietnamese brides - why did the Straits Times place such a story on its front page?		Soc, Med
Jun 2003	Towels, toilets and tips - how an old custom has degenerated		Soc
Jun 2003	Obedience school - what SARS showed about Singaporeans that wasn't quite a glorious victory against the disease		Soc
Apr 2003	Hainanese western food - a taste of Singapore - this odd cuisine embodies a bit of our history		Soc
Apr 2003	Not just for chuckles - you can't take off your shirt in Manila, nor shower in Bangkok		Pol, Soc, Kno
Apr 2003	Wanbao's coverage of Leslie Cheung's death - was their reporting in denial about his sexuality?		Med
Mar 2003	Tutor gets 18 years for abusing his pupils - but 87 other former pupils write glowing testimonials in his favour		Law, Hum
Feb 2003	The subtleties of censorship in Singapore - for a place well known for tough press and broadcasting controls, why is the internet relatively free?		Pol, Med
Feb 2003	No sex please, we're gay - gay men were up in arms over a magazine article about gay orgies		Med, Hom
Jan 2003	Mrs Quah goes to the saunas - the dilemma of married men going to gay saunas		Soc, Hom, Hum, Per
Jan 2003	Brainless stories make brainless spouses - a story in Woman's World magazine, 'I caught my hubby in bed, with another man'		Soc, Med