Turning the lion city pink: interrogating Singapore's new gay civil servant statement
| dc.contributor.author | Tan, Chris K.K. | en |
| dc.contributor.author | AsiaPacificQueer Network | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2011-10-20T02:44:20Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2011-10-20T02:44:20Z | |
| dc.date.created | 2005 | en_AU |
| dc.description.abstract | On 4 July 2003, Singapore’s former Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong dropped a small bombshell of an announcement in the main local newspaper The Straits Times. He declared, “In the past, if we know you’re gay, we would not employ you. But we have changed this quietly.” Now, the government will employ gay Singaporeans in ‘certain positions’, even sensitive ones, provided that these civil servants openly declared their sexual orientation. Expecting considerable indignant resistance form the conservative quarters, Goh attempted to placate them: “We are born this way and they [i.e. gay people] are born that way, but they are like you and me. The furore that came in the wake of this announcement saw one very heterosexual man publicly decrying that the government had lost its moral authority to rule. To those of us more experienced in queer politics elsewhere, this man’s outrage seemed misplaced. Goh was merely offering employment to openly gay men and women, not legalising same-sex marriages as had happened in Toronto earlier in the summer. So why the public uproar? | en_AU |
| dc.description.sponsorship | AsiaPacifiQueer Network, Australian National University | en_AU |
| dc.format.extent | 9 pages | en_AU |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en_AU |
| dc.identifier.citation | Tan, C. (2005, July). Turning the lion city pink: Interrogating Singapore's new gay civil servant statement. Paper presented at Sexualities, Genders and Rights in Asia: 1st International Conference of Asian Queer Studies. Bangkok, Thailand 7-9 July 2005: AsiaPacifiQueer Network, Mahidol University; Australian National University | en_AU |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/8693 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_AU | en_AU |
| dc.provenance | " ... as chair of the organising committee for the conference I give my permission for the permanent archiving of the papers. All authors whose papers appear on the site gave their permission for open access to these papers" - from email dated 26/9/11, Professor Peter Jackson, School of Culture, History and Language, ANU | en_AU |
| dc.publisher | Canberra, ACT: The Australian National University | en_AU |
| dc.rights | Author/s retain copyright | en_AU |
| dc.source | Sexualities, genders and rights in Asia : 1st international Conference of Asian Queer Studies, Ambassador Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand 7-9 July 2005 | en_AU |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Gay rights -- Asia -- Congresses. | en_AU |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Gay culture -- Asia -- Congresses. | en_AU |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Gay culture -- Asia -- Social conditions -- Congresses. | en_AU |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Gay community -- Asia -- Congresses. | en_AU |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Gay community. | en_AU |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Gay culture. | en_AU |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Gay rights. | en_AU |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Asia. | en_AU |
| dc.title | Turning the lion city pink: interrogating Singapore's new gay civil servant statement | en_AU |
| dc.type | Conference paper | en_AU |
| dcterms.accessRights | Open Access | |
| dcterms.dateAccepted | 2005 | |
| local.contributor.affiliation | Tan, Chris K.K. University of Illinois | en_AU |
| local.description.notes | The conference was held Bangkok, Thailand, 7-9 July 2005 and convened by the AsiaPacifiQueer Network. ANU was the host organisation for this network, and the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies provided funding support. ANU was acknowledged as a co-sponsor of the conference. | en_AU |
| local.identifier.uidSubmittedBy | u4142396 | en_AU |
| local.type.status | Published Version | en_AU |