TR EMERITUS

I was shocked to read what PM Lee had said in parliament with regards to 377A. Although he echoed my view on the need to prevent the promotion of LGBT as a “lifestyle”, but he seems to suggest that the PAP government has not enforced 377A aggressively thus there is no need to repeal it but it as status quo. I am even more... 

A young lady, Karmen Siew, was supposedly groped multiple times by the same person on the train today [ LINK ]. As she stood with bags in her hand, she felt a hand brush her not once, but a second time after she moved apart from the man beside her. She stood up, exited the train, and to her horror, he follows her with the emboldened... 

The LGBT community and allies have wasted no time in starting to campaign for the repeal of s377A. I hope they listen to what a Mr Shahani, author of the 2008 book Gay Bombay: Globalisation, Love and (Be)longing in Contemporary India, says about winning “hearts and minds” of the public. “I don’t think India is homophobic...