| Month |
Title,
etc |
|
Relevance |
| Dec
2004 |
Lesbianism
through divine revelation - religion, spirituality and
sexuality |
|
Rel,
Hom |
| Dec
2004 |
Religion
in public debate - my rebuttal to Thio Li-Ann's article in
the Straits Times complaining that "radical
secularism" is gagging religious views |
 |
Pol,
Soc, Rel |
| Dec
2004 |
Altruism
in the absence of heaven - dolphins save humans from sharks and make
us look stupid as well |
|
Rel,
Kno, Hum |
| Dec
2004 |
Snowball
crushed - the police banned a gay Christmas party, and
signaled a broader ban on all gay events |
|
Pol,
Hom |
| Dec
2004 |
Don't
spread falsehoods, I said to the editor - holding editors
responsible should they disseminate dangerous lies |
|
Med,
Kno, Oth [HIV] |
| Dec
2004 |
Condoms
only 85 percent effective - not true! - the Christian
fundamentalists are trying to scare people away from condom use,
by being careless with facts |
|
Kno,
Oth [HIV] |
| Dec
2004 |
Reading
from offal - what our aversion to viscera in our food tells
us |
|
Soc,
Per |
| Dec
2004 |
Oh
joy! a dustbin at last - how we're inconvenienced by the
threat of terrorism, or not |
|
Pol |
| Nov
2004 |
Singapore
near bottom of press freedom index - the minister dismissed
the ranking, the Straits Times validated it |
|
Pol,
Med |
| Nov
2004 |
Islam
in Malaysia: the modern, the foreign and the traditional -
musings from 3 brief encounters |
|
Rel |
| Nov
2004 |
Wanbao's
5-part report on gay saunas and bars - this sensationalist
Chinese newspaper tries to boost its sales |
|
Med,
Hom |
| Nov
2004 |
It's
my birthday, spend money on me - and why it is rude |
|
Per |
| Nov
2004 |
Let's
beat AIDS, without talking about sex - so suggests the
minister. |
|
Pol,
Hom, Oth [HIV] |
| Nov
2004 |
Minister
warns of AIDS epidemic, and my comments - new HIV cases
among gay men have risen sharply |
|
Pol,
Hom, Oth [HIV] |
| Nov
2004 |
Adjusting
to a rising China - it's happening now, but what kind of
China will we face? |
|
Pol |
| Nov
2004 |
Gambling
on the Singapore model - the paralysis over the casino idea
shows up our social and political weaknesses |
|
Pol,
Soc |
| Nov
2004 |
Prostitution
is not illegal in Singapore - the minister said so in
Parliament |
|
Soc |
| Nov
2004 |
Southern
Thailand: witnessing beginnings - are we seeing the start of a major insurgency? |
|
Pol |
| Nov
2004 |
The
banished booth - pink dollars welcome, safe sex no |
|
Pol,
Med, Hom |
| Jul
2004 |
Film
censorship: 'Formula 17' banned - because it didn't depict
anything bad about gay life |
|
Pol,
Med |
| Apr
2004 |
A
black day for justice - the chief
justice was re-appointed |
|
Pol,
Law |
| Apr
2004 |
Roundtable
group disbands - a political discussion group calls it quits
after 10 years |
|
Pol |
| Apr
2004 |
When
intellectualising about homosexuality gets too hard, just sell
snake oil - the Catholic Church distributes a flyer |
|
Rel,
Hom |
| Apr
2004 |
What's
so subversive about People Like Us? - a commentary I wrote
for Today newspaper |
|
Pol,
Hom |
| Apr
2004 |
Registrar
of Societies should ban Inter-Racial Confidence Circles -
since IRCCs go against the mainstream values of Singaporeans |
|
Pol, |
| Apr
2004 |
Broad
gay acceptance no longer unimaginable
- big shifts in US and UK attitudes, will it happen in
Singapore? |
|
Pol,
Soc, Hom |
| Apr
2004 |
Homophobia
as a crisis in masculinity - someone
unwittingly vocalised his fear of being raped to justify making
homosexuality illegal |
|
Soc,
Hom |
| Mar
2004 |
NUSS
forum: Legislating sexual behaviour - should the State be in our
bedrooms? - my presentation at a forum organised by NUS
graduates' society |
|
Pol,
Soc, Hom, Kno |
| Mar
2004 |
Taiwan:
the next nuclear flashpoint - the
trends don't look good |
|
Pol |
| Mar
2004 |
Sycophancy:
our unique tourist draw - STB thinks bar-top dancing is a
crowd-puller, not a joke |
|
Pol,
Soc |
| Mar
2004 |
Win your case and you're a bastard
- the logic of sex laws in Singapore |
|
Law |
| Mar
2004 |
Man
wield club, man rape woman - why we can't have
gender-neutral language in our laws |
|
Pol |
| Mar
2004 |
Political
correctness meets the fridge - are gay men and lesbians as
different as chalk from cheese? |
|
Hom,
Hum |
| Mar
2004 |
Question
to politicians: what if your own son or daughter is gay? -
your public positions cannot be personally impossible |
|
Pol |
| Mar
2004 |
The
administrative Prime Minister - a subjective review of Goh
Chok Tong's 14 years in office |
|
Pol |
| Mar
2004 |
Singapore
needs to think about gay marriage now - or we'll lose out
economically |
|
Pol,
Hom |
| Mar
2004 |
Another
gay forum banned - PELU refuses permits for the
"Lovers' Lecture Series" |
|
Pol,
Hom |
| Mar
2004 |
Missing
the boat - dogma, from stem cells to kidney donation to
Vietnamese boat people |
|
Pol,
Soc, Rel, Kno |
| Mar
2004 |
Manazine
manacled - the government clamps down on a tastefully
homo-erotic magazine |
|
Pol,
Med, Hom |
| Feb
2004 |
The
usefulness of bird flu - some enterprising people seize any
opportunity they can find |
|
Soc,
Hum |
| Feb
2004 |
Is
Singapore ready for a global future? - our politics and our
culture are handicaps |
|
Pol,
Soc |
| Feb
2004 |
Activist
judges and the coming of the mongrels - and more of God's
natural order turned upside down |
|
Law,
Soc |
| Feb
2004 |
Porn,
panic and pandemonium - a teenage schoolboy was caught with
porn VCDs by his teacher |
|
Soc |
| Feb
2004 |
Here's
hoping Today doesn't become yesterday
- 'Today' newspaper got a ferocious dressing down from Lee Kuan
Yew |
|
Pol,
Med |
| Feb
2004 |
Far
out from the in-crowd -
musings from an article in the New Scientist about social
selection in reproduction |
|
Soc,
Hom |
| Jan
2004 |
Is it true that
consensual homosex is no longer prosecuted? - but this
40-year-old guy was charged for being bottom to a 17-year-old |
|
Law,
Soc |
| Jan
2004 |
Adding value
- Sociology Professor Chua Beng Huat said, "He should
just go." "He" was Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew |
|
Pol |
| Jan
2004 |
Don't turn the
doorknob - an adult son saw his mother giving a blowjob to his
great-uncle |
|
Law |
| Jan
2004 |
Oral sex: more
letters in 'Today' - including my rebuttal which they didn't
publish |
|
Med,
Hom |
| Jan
2004 |
Oral sex: letter
in Lianhe Zaobao - pointing out that decriminalising only
heterosexual oral sex sends the wrong signals. |
|
Med,
Hom |
| Jan
2004 |
The map's tale
- sodomy laws and the British Empire |
|
Law,
Soc, Hom, Kno |
| Jan
2004 |
Oral sex: how
'Today' edited my letter - I argued that the government was
incoherent, but the editors of TODAY substantially reduced
the punch in my letter. |
|
Med,
Hom |
| Jan
2004 |
The blowjob that
blew down the oral sex law - well not quite, as we shall see |
|
Law,
Soc |
| Jan
2004 |
The Steve Chia
case: an ordinary bloke - we are fools to think that just
because someone has an unusual hobby, even an erotic one, he is
unfit for politics. |
|
Pol,
Soc |
| Jan
2004 |
20th
century China: the rise and fall of state homophobia - modern
homophobia in China had quite unique origins related to its political
upheavals |
|
Pol,
Soc, Hom |
| Jan
2004 |
'Asian' means we
have to live with hypocrisy and paralysis - asked if there was
a reluctance to really open up and embrace change, the Deputy
Prime Minister said we're an Asian society. Huh? |
|
Pol,
Hom |
