Singapore Bans Film For Making Gays Look Good
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(Singapore) A Taiwanese film that has been huge hit throughout Asia was banned Wednesday in Singapore because it "creates an illusion of a homosexual utopia", government censors said.
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I went to university with a guy from Singapore, who was a closeted gay man. He had to return to Singapore for compulsory military duty, so he was terriffied to come out.
He went back home, and served for awhile, but he ended up committing suicide. I don't KNOW that it was because of the government laws, but I certainly suspect it was.
Singapore is a fucking hole, run by a criminal despot.
Sorry for the intemperate language, but I needed to get that out of my system.
[ 23 July 2004: Message edited by: Hephaestion ]