World Wide Wave

22 Dec 2018

SINGAPORE: SLOW PROGRESS TO REPEALING SODOMY LAWS

Asia/Pacific, News & Politics

It’s known as a shoppers paradise – a modern nation in the middle of Asia.  It has high wages and standards of living – the 3^rd highest income per capita in the world.  It has good education, a multicultural population with almost 40% coming from outside the country and it’s been ranked the “most technology ready” country in the world. Where it doesn’t rate highly is LGBTI rights.

• What is stopping progress towards decrminalisation of homosexuality?
• Has it made a difference to the debate that the grandson of the respected Founding Prime Minister this year came out publicly as gay with his boyfriend?
• What is the power of telling personal stories of the LGBTI community in Singapore?

To help us to understand the paradoxes of Singapore society, we are joined by

• Yangfa Leow, the Executive Director of Oogachaga Counselling Service in Singapore, who dropped into the JOY studios to speak with us on a recent visit (www.oogachaga.com)

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