Article to share: Why The Rejection of Snowball 04 is Bad for Singapore

wanted to share this with my friends ….. an article written and posted on www.oursafehaven.com

Why The Rejection of Snowball 04 is Bad for Singapore by Clarence on 12 December 2004

Guess I’m torn … part of me wants to stand up … say or do something … the younger Jermyn who used to havea chip on his shoulder about gay rights stirring

then there’s another part of me that has become jaded and asks … what’s the point.

Why do i feel this way:
- I truely do not believe that our leader or those who make decisions that matter in Singapore really care if we have a place in Singapore
- I heard this story from a fren … conversation at a broadcasting regulatory body regarding a gay character in a TV series …. “so long as he dies in the series its OK to have the character”
- friends getting beaten up at Marina and no one in Singapore wanting to help them … they had to walk bloody far and beg someone to lend them a phone … it was a gay bashing incident
- all this talk of us having a place in Singapore (as mentioned by Senior Minister Lee in CNN interview, PM Goh in his interview in Time magazine) and the recent turn of events

A friend told me after we heard the news … we should band together as one cause everyone feels that something should be done but no one knows what to do … he hit the nail on the head …. i guess all of us who want to react but are clueless as to what we can do to make a difference .. to make our voices heard … not to mention scared. But if we don’t stand up for ourselves .. who will ….

so anyone with any suggestion as to what we can do drop me a line

…. whether passively like carrying / wearing a rainbow flag for a day to show we are gay or family & friends of gay people and we are here in Singapore … open-minded and celebrating diversity

…. or actively through an online space / channel ….. consolidating everything written and expressed from history to present day about being gay in Singapore ….. from people of all walks of life ….. positive and negative … to band together the voices of individuals and groups who have something to say about this

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