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...wasn't exactly a celebration of diversity as envisioned in the government-sponsored Remaking Singapore report that followed Goh's interview. Nor was it quite the stuff of the open society that the government is seeking to foster. But it did reflect realities that visitors have been slowly uncovering: Singapore is actually becoming a hell of place to party with people of every race and sexuality, and despite images to the contrary, it does not need much more loosening up to remain high on, if not top of, the Asian league of fun cities...
...easily fit into the binary code of man/woman and male/female are punished for gender transgressions. Because of severe and persistent discrimination in housing, employment and education, transgender people remain disproportionately in poverty. Most of the institutions that poor people have to navigate (e.g. homeless shelters, group foster homes, prisons and jails, drug treatment, etc.) are gender-segregated, and for people whose gender identity or expression does not match their legal sex, these systems become especially inaccessible and unsafe...
...worldwide. Still, Probst can absorb the blows. At 52, he has seen it all. He is famous for rarely smiling and comes across more like a stern high-school principal than the emperor of electronic fun. But he has been the boss for 12 years and understands how to foster a creative environment. Like Harry Potter's Hogwarts, EA is divided into competitive teams; each works on a separate game, and each wants to outsell the others. But they also share innovations--so the realistic-looking blades of grass from, say, Madden NFL 2003 also find their way onto Harry...
Norton received many awards from the theater world, including election into the Theater Hall of Fame. He won a Tony Award in 1971, the George Jean Nathan Award in 1964 and a George Foster Peabody Award in 1962 for his television program, “Elliot Norton Reviews...
According to organizers—including the Harvard Civil Rights Project (CRP) and the University of Michigan—the conference’s aim was to provide information and foster discussion about the effects of the June 23 ruling...