Archives
| Year group |
The more significant articles that stand the test of time (totally subjective, of course) |
| 2008 | |
| 2007 | |
| 2006 | Leslie Kee's tsunami charity book. Proposed changes to the Penal Code. Court victory for same-sex unions in New Jersey. Gay volleyball team. The case against Tochi. The book SQ21. Vietnamese girls in Joo Chiat. General election. Blogging during elections. Liberty league. |
| 2005 | History of circumcision. Circuit parties and HIV. The Spice Trade case. Presidential election. Death penalty. NKF. One gay website fined, another banned. Warwick university. |
| 2004 | Snowball party denied licence. Minister warns of AIDS. Prostitution is not illegal. Press freedom index. NUSs forum. Manazine and MITA. Oral sex letters to the press. The map's tale - history of our sodomy law. |
| 2003 | My take on various reactions to Goh Chok Tong's comment about gay civil servants. Wanbao handling of Leslie Cheung's suicide. Bar-top dancing and pseudo-liberalisation. Cleo magazine features 5 lesbians. |
| 2002 | Extracts from the Remaking Singapore bulletin board. Results from the Social Attitudes Survey 2001. Gay bars and bathhouses in Shanghai and Nanjing. "Hard-edged" - about religions exclusive and inclusive. |
| 2001 | Creativity, deference and why we don't have audience participation. "The fourth reason to travel is illegal" - how badly our children are taught in school. Sex education. How the press is controlled. Two foreign workers whom I met ended up in jail. Two guys arrested in a gay sauna. |
| 2000 | Finger lengths indicate homosexuality is inborn. The play Talaq is banned. My gay forum is banned. Why Zhujiao became Tekka. Save the National Library building. Radio journalists ask senior and junior Lees the gay question. Life magazine's 1964 cover story on gay America. |
| 1999 | Patrick recounts his 14 years trying to be straight. My ideas for Singapore's electoral system. CNA's program about sex education. Some women talk about self-discovery and coming out. How some straight men acquired their heterosexuality. Pimping gets you 12 times more jailtime than an attempt at murder. |
| 1998 | Lee Kuan Yew on CNN. Mandarin. The fallout from being made. The tyranny of loving marriage. Sexual orientation the result of foetal hormones. Bazaar Malay. |
| 1996-1997 | Knowledge and doctrine, prostitution and morality. Mun Dispensary and my father's growing up years. Sodomy laws, cloning. The moral centre of gravity. Jovan and his school. My maternal grandmother's life. |
| Categories explained |
| Archives hold essays written by Yawning Bread |
| Guest contributions hold essays or poems written by friends and email acquaintances of Yawning Bread, either on my request, or just submitted here for hosting |
| Appendices are a jumble of things usually meant as supporting documents for one or more Yawning Bread essays. They include news clippings, reports of events, transcripts of radio or TV programs, and various letters and articles by third parties. |
| Photo essays are collections of pictures that I have taken myself, based on a certain theme, and accompanied by brief commentary. |