Dear People, Meet 29-year old Singaporean Lena Tan…who also happens to be a national muay thai fighter! Born into a traditional Chinese family, Lena knew that she was different from other girls from a very young age. However, her conservative upbringing coupled with the lack of education in schools with regards to LGBT-related matters meant
Dear Gay People, If you’ve ever felt like the gay community isn’t worth fighting for, trust me, you’re not the only one. Contrary to what certain institutions want you to believe, the gay community isn’t one big happy family. There is politics within the community and if you’re part of the gay scene, the internal
Dear People, Meet 49-year old Singaporean Amy Tashiana! Born as a male, Amy started identifying herself as a female from the very early age of 8. Even from that very young age, she could sense that having such inclinations would not be socially acceptable and kept that knowledge to herself. It wasn’t till she was
Dear Gay People, Even if your Christmas schedule is already pretty full, here are 3 LGBT-related events in Singapore that you should still make time for! 1. #aGSXmas Affair Date: 26th December 2015 Venue: The Bar Above (72 + 74 Tanjong Pagar Road) Time: 330pm to 8pm Details: GLBT Voices Singapore will be holding its inaugural
Dear Straight People, The LGBT community has been called many things. We have been labelled as being mentally ill, derided for being hedonistic and more recently, accused of being greedy. In fact, it’s not just the straight community that has accused the LGBT right activists of being greedy. Singapore’s most prominent gay celebrity Kumar himself has
Dear Gay People, Once upon a time, we were simply known as the LGBT community and everyone was happy. The LGBT acronym was effective in the sense that it was easy to remember, received widespread acceptance and managed to cover a sufficiently broad spectrum of sexual orientations (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender). Unfortunately, the LGBT term
Dear Straight People, As difficult as it is for some of you to believe, asexuals really do exist! And unfortunately for them, asexuals need to constantly deal with all kinds of misconceptions. So as part of this blog’s effort to educate straight people on sexual minorities, here are 6 common misconceptions about asexuals that you
Dear People, Meet 27-year old Singaporean Darius Zee… a former homophobe turned LGBT rights activist! Darius’ same-sex inclination started when he was only in primary school. However, it wasn’t till he started his secondary school education that his homosexual tendencies became a lot more evident. Darius reflects that: I guess my inclination was only confirmed
Dear Straight People, You aren’t the only ones who know how to pull off an epic marriage proposal. In no particular order, check out the following 6 super awesome same-sex marriage proposals that will most probably put a big smile on your face! Patrick and Gavin’s Disney World Proposal This
Dear Gay People, Falling for your straight best friend is one of the oldest clichés in the gay book. And yet, time and again, it keeps happening. Maybe it’s the lure of the forbidden fruit that our innate human nature finds irresistible. Maybe it’s due to the emotional intimacy of the friendship. Maybe it’s because