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ARTICLES RELATED TO Singapore gay history - The Japanese occupation | | | |  Singapore gay history - The Japanese occupation: Encyclopedia II - Singapore gay history - The Japanese occupationWhen the Japanese imperial army invaded Singapore in February 1942 and renamed it Syonan-to, the British legal system was toppled overnight and replaced by the Japanese one. Unbeknownst to all save the elite few who possessed a knowledge of Japanese culture either through erudition or travel, homosexuality suddenly became legitimate as it was never criminalised in Japan. In fact, the Japanese military, who revered the Bushido code, were the inheritors of a tradition which extolled homosexuality as a higher form of love. It was widely ...
See also:Singapore gay history, Singapore gay history - The Pre-British era, Singapore gay history - Under British colonial administration, Singapore gay history - The Japanese occupation, Singapore gay history - After World War II, Singapore gay history - Independence, Singapore gay history - The 1970s, Singapore gay history - The 1980s, Singapore gay history - The 1990s, Singapore gay history - 1st decade of the new millennium Read more here: » Singapore gay history: Encyclopedia II - Singapore gay history - The Japanese occupation |
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| | | | Singapore gay history - The Japanese occupation: Encyclopedia II - Singapore gay history - The 1990s The heady days of unmitigated expansion of available gay spaces experienced in the 80's were curbed to some degree in the early 90's. Singapore's breakneck economic growth was being attributed to 'Asian values', the most vociferous proponent of whom was Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew. 'Family values' was seen as an integral subset of these and touted with much verve by the politically commandeered local media. No one took seriously an American academic's assertion that the rapid growth of the Asian Newly Industrialising Economies (NIEs) was mai ...
See also:Singapore gay history, Singapore gay history - The Pre-British era, Singapore gay history - Under British colonial administration, Singapore gay history - The Japanese occupation, Singapore gay history - After World War II, Singapore gay history - Independence, Singapore gay history - The 1970s, Singapore gay history - The 1980s, Singapore gay history - The 1990s, Singapore gay history - 1st decade of the new millennium Read more here: » Singapore gay history: Encyclopedia II - Singapore gay history - The 1990s |
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| | | | Singapore gay history - The Japanese occupation: Encyclopedia II - Singapore gay history - The 1980s The early 80s was a period of widespread prosperity and new freedoms which saw the opening of clubs like Shadows, Marmota, Legend and Niche which catered to a predominantly gay clientèle even though they were not exclusively gay. These discoes would be closed by the time of the mid-80s, for unclear reasons, to be replaced by weekly Sunday Night Gay Parties or "Shadow Nights" run by the former management of Shadows (affectionately known as the "Shadow Management"). These "Shadow Nights" were roving events held at semi-permanent venues which ...
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| | | | Singapore gay history - The Japanese occupation: Encyclopedia II - Singapore gay history - The 1970s With the prosperity that prudent policies of promoting foreign multinational investment brought, while other regional countries were mired in the inefficiencies of import substitution and socialist economics, those homosexuals, especially the English-educated who could afford air travel were exposed to the liberalism of the West and the nascent gay movements there. In the early days of accessible mass air transport, the destinations of choice were the Anglophone countries of the West and Australia. Nouveau-riche gay Chinese-educated business ...
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| | | | Singapore gay history - The Japanese occupation: Encyclopedia II - Singapore gay history - After World War II The overthrow of the Japanese in August 1945 by Allied forces resulted in jubilation, tinged with regret, amongst the gay population. The British legal system was reinstated, with the notorious section 377 of the Singapore Penal Code, criminalising all sexual acts 'against the order of nature'.
The incompetence and unfairness of the British post-war administration in addressing the economic plight of Singaporeans sowed the seed of the concept of self-determination within the local populace. Not only was the idea of independence mulled over, ...
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| | | | Singapore gay history - The Japanese occupation: Encyclopedia II - Singapore gay history - Under British colonial administration With the advent of British colonisation and the imposition of their legal system which criminalised sodomy, there must have been instances where flagrant gay sex in back alleys and public toilets met with suppression by the Police, but criminal prosecutions were rare. Aggrieved individuals would have wanted to speak out but as they had no social network, most suffered in silence and became more discreet with their sex lives. Southern Chinese and Indians were imported as indentured labourers to oil the gears of the British entrepôt economy. ...
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| | | | Singapore gay history - The Japanese occupation: Encyclopedia II - Singapore gay history - The Pre-British era There exist no known written records of same-sex love in pre-colonial Singapore and, as a corollary, of any 'movement' in reaction to perceived or real oppression of such activity. Prior to the arrival of British traders and colonists in 1819, the island was largely populated by Malays of the Johor-Riau archipelago triangle who engaged mainly in subsistence farming, fishery and trade.
We can extrapolate from the culture of contemporary Malays that there was probably much tolerance to surreptitious homosexual activity, as evidenced by the absence of any vocal or physical violence against such individuals ou ...
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| | | | Singapore gay history - The Japanese occupation: Encyclopedia II - Singapore gay history - Independence Along the tortuous road to complete independence from the United Kingdom in 1959 and subsequently from the Malaysian federation in 1965 came the drafting of the Constitution and the gradual repeal of colonial laws which discriminated on the basis of race, language and religion. Homosexuals, however, were dismayed by the glaring absence of any categorical statement outlawing discrimination due to sexual orientation. In those days, homosexuality as a topic was taboo. One did not even mention it in polite society, much less agitate to have it included in an official document, owing to stigmat ...
See also:Singapore gay history, Singapore gay history - The Pre-British era, Singapore gay history - Under British colonial administration, Singapore gay history - The Japanese occupation, Singapore gay history - After World War II, Singapore gay history - Independence, Singapore gay history - The 1970s, Singapore gay history - The 1980s, Singapore gay history - The 1990s, Singapore gay history - 1st decade of the new millennium Read more here: » Singapore gay history: Encyclopedia II - Singapore gay history - Independence |
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