aps: i strongly suggest that you edit your post and then send it in as a letter to the straits times.



it's a good thing my family doesn't buy the sunday times--or often, even the papers at all--if the editors (the government? can they track my ip address? ;p) will insist on printing such blatantly bigoted articles. and letters as well--though i haven't actually seen the letters page. i'm assuming that they didn't actually print any letters in defence of the (here i am tempted to make a bad pun on 'party line') gay community in singapore.

i wish they would remove their blinkers and realise that homosexuality has been around as long as heterosexuality has. that mutual love and fidelity are qualities not restricted to heterosexual couples; that the gay community should not be target of the witch-hunt (all right, i exaggerate; we need the pink dollar after all, no?) aimed at rooting out casual sex and, ah, libertarian ideals. that restrictions placed on homosexual acts (and not merely those of a sexual nature!) will only serve as a stopgap measure: in the end all they do is blind people to where the real dangers lie (closing down the afa booth, hello!) and postpone a freedom that has to come some day.

i think it was once said, in defence of the official stance, that society was "not yet ready" to accept homosexuality. as someone very rightly pointed out then, does that mean that there have to be legal restrictions on it? (but how does this work: how do you restrict love, make it run within the boundaries you have set? sex is not the issue here.) surely people are mature enough to decide for themselves: and if they make a wrong decision, then they will bear the consequences that society will impose on them. it's as simple as that; we don't live in a nanny state, at least not officially.



(ah i'm tired. these are the points that come most coherently to mind. will go back now to reading about alexander the great and his lover and best friend hephaistion, and his other lover, the persian boy bagoas, and his wife roxane. i haven't yet got to the part where he acquires more wives.

lover is such a bad word; with all its connotations and free usage it cheapens so many other precious things.)