TR EMERITUS

19 years living in NYC as an openly gay man has not erased my memory of the shame and fear of hiding my true self in Singapore. I can still remember visiting a gay bar in Chinatown, not at night when it was open, but in the day when I could check it out without being seen. I was hiding in broad daylight. What was I afraid of?... 

At the start of the month, our Ambassador-At-Large, Professor Tommy Koh caused a bit of a stir among the chattering classes when he stated that he believed that Singaporeans were a snobbish lot who look down on the poor. More on Professor Koh’s remarks can be found here. On the face of things, it appears that Professor Koh... 

Although LKY has LGBTQ among his family clan, he had resisted to Repeal 377A. Why? I bet he clearly understood that this is not just a simple act of repealing a law but will trigger a whole lot of social battles. Most probably he didn't think it's worth the political social risks to trigger a bomb which no one could possibly...