SQ21: Singapore Queers in the 21st Century
What is it like for men and women to grow up here, to come out their families, to find love and work and meaning? What are their stories? For the first time in Singapore, a book answers these questions, showing our true faces and celebrating our lives as individuals. Written in a light, readable style, these inspirational stories will touch the hearts of everyone, young and old, single or in love, Singaporean and otherwise.
"... The book, which features the interviewees' full names and photographs, is the first project of its kind in the city-state where gay sex acts are still criminalised under Section 377 of the Singapore Penal Code inherited from British colonial rule. ..." Fridae August 20, 2006
"... And yet, after reading them, only the most
emotionally inert or dishonest will fail to see their own lives
reflected in the accounts ..." Woo Yen Yen & Colin Goh, excerpt
from the Foreword of SQ21.
"... I want to keep the idea of coming out alive in the way we
make and remake ourselves. I am not suggesting it as dogma, as
social discipline, as initiation rites, as a must-do, must-have
item in the way we talk about ourselves. Rather, I am suggesting
that there is still power in it as a strategic choice, as a
spontaneous decision to affect perceptions when we render an
invisible aspect of ourselves visible, as a unfixed, unstable
form of saying who we are that sits uneasily in the fixed
categories of being we are given. ..." Jason Wee, Editor SQ21
We thank Mox Bar & Cafe
and Borders for providing the venues for the launch of this historic book.
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