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...that is proudly preserved, these antiquated laws remain on the statute books. Until recently, the government justified the criminal status of homosexual activity by citing so-called Asian values of Singaporean society. Imagine the fizz, then, in the republic's media and especially the gay community, when Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong told TIME last month that the government has been quietly tolerating gays in the civil service for a while...
...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...
...drivers of the city's cosmopolitan nightlife?has finally arrived, with or without the laws. It had been evolving in the past few years alongside? and often in combination with?Singapore's alternative youth culture (with which it shares DJs, venues, fashion and a lot else besides). When Goh proclaimed that "in time, the population will understand that some people are born that way ? but they are like you and me," he seemed to these groups to be talking from some kind of social space capsule, viewing Earth at a fantastic distance?because Singapore has been changing quicker, in terms...
...Goh Chok Tong, Singaporean Prime Minister, announcing that the city-state will allow bungee jumping
...CONFIRMED. GOH KUN, 65, veteran politician and former mayor of Seoul whose anticorruption image earned him the nickname "Mr. Clean"; as Prime Minister; in Seoul. Over the past four decades, Goh has served almost every administration and held various posts, including Prime Minister and Home Affairs Minister...