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4 unusual facts about LGBT history in Singapore


LGBT history in Singapore

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.

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.

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.

As a token of this restriction, to placate social conservatives, prominent porn websites such as Playboy and Penthouse were blocked.



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