On the silver screen, cinema goers enjoyed a Chinese language Shaw Brothers production entitled Ai Nu (Love Slave) which starred actresses Lily Ho and Pei Ti as a lesbian couple in a period setting.
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Encouraged by this precedent, homosexuals started to patronise other, mainly straight, discos in the city area such as My Place, Black Velvet, West End, El Morocco, The Library, Studio M and even the NCO Club at Beach Road.
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An example of this government censorship was directed at Chay Yew, who, in the 1990s, had become an internationally known playright with several plays featuring gay individuals and couples.
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As a token of this restriction, to placate social conservatives, prominent porn websites such as Playboy and Penthouse were blocked.
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