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	Homosexuality in Singapore - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alex Au (see concise autobiography,website), Singapore's most widely-respected gay activist, regarded by many to be the founding father of the Singapore gay equality movement.
		Tan was the second male gay activist to be interviewed on Singapore television and is an ardent advocate of democracy.
		Max Lim, the first openly gay entrepreneur and impresario to be known by a wide swath of the LGBT community.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Homosexuality_in_Singapore (2770 words)

	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Singlish (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Initially, "Singlish" and "Manglish" were essentially the same language, when Singapore and peninsular Malaysia were a single geographic entity — Malaya.
		After Singapore's independence in 1965, and successive "Speak Mandarin" campaigns, a subtle language shift among the post-'65 generation became more and more pronounced as Malay idiomatic expressions were, and continued to be, displaced by idioms borrowed from Chinese spoken varieties, such as Hokkien.
		The English language in Singapore is a sociolect continuum.
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Singlish (739 words)

	gay news blog: July 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Gay couples should be able to marry in civil ceremonies and, if they are parents, they deserve all the legal rights of straight parents, says a policy the American Psychological Association was expected to adopt Wednesday at its Honolulu meeting.
		Westerwelle called for even broader gay rights, including the right for gay couples to adopt children who are not the offspring of their partners.
		Gay political event dumps Margaret ChoMargaret Cho has been cut from a gay political bash coinciding with the Democratic convention because her material is a little rough.
	gay_blog.blogspot.com /2004_07_01_gay_blog_archive.html (11015 words)

	OwningUp.com anonymous online confessions :: Gay slang (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		A term once used exclusively by the gay and bisexual fl community to refer to working-class men who live as straight men, often who are married, and who secretly have affairs or one night stands with other men.
		A former lesbian or gay man who professes to be "cleansed" of their homosexuality, often due to a religious (typically evangelical Christian) conversion.
		A gay male considered by his peers to be extremely attractive physically; a promiscuous gay man; a butch lesbian, especially one who is promiscuous.
	www.owningup.com.cob-web.org:8888 /index.php?page=24 (4179 words)

	Homosexuality in Singapore - SgWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The terms 'gay' and 'homosexual' in this article are defined as 'having a greater sexual attraction for the same sex than for the opposite sex'.
		Thus, a person happily married to a spouse of the opposite sex may still be gay even though he or she consciously refrains from or has never indulged in homosexual acts.
		The greatest impediment to the achievement of absolute gay equality in Singapore is the rampant spread of HIV infection amongst Men who have Sex with Men (MSM).
	www.www.sgwiki.com /wiki/Homosexuality_in_Singapore (2522 words)

	Gay In Singapore (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Recently a group of writers have started documenting many aspects of Singapore homosexual/gay life under the auspicies of the wikipedia project.
		Singapore gay history: 1st decade of the new millennium -
		Ay-jay or A-jay - "Pig Latinised form" of 'gay', with the guttural 'g' converted to a 'j' to further disguise its form.
	bw2.9.forumer.com.cob-web.org:8888 /a/gay-in-singapore_post188.html (658 words)

	Transgender people in Singapore - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Not immediately apparent to Singapore's mainstream society is the fact that the gay community sees itself as a totally separate entity from the transgender communities (often also referred to as "transvestite and transexual" communities).
		It was one of the few roads to be completely erased from the map of Singapore after a fire in the late 90s, to be replaced by an unnamed park next to the Bugis MRT station and the Victoria Street Wholesale Centre.
		Singapore's only drag queen cabaret nightclub and thought by many also to be Singapore's only real national institution in the same uninhibited spirit as the original Bugis Street.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Transgender_people_in_Singapore (2825 words)

	Singapore Gay Christian View - God takes special care of Gays (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		God is saying that though the Jews and the Gentiles (the first two groups) have rejected Gays in their midst, He will have mercy, He will not reject them, He will accept them.
		God sees the heart cry of Gays, to be normal, to be like the rest, to have families, to have descendents to take care of them, to be treated equally.
		Sweet Lamb of God, wash us clean in your precious blood and bring Gays to your side to be in your family to be led and loved by you, our beloved Lamb of God.
	www.psa91.com.cob-web.org:8888 /eunuch.htm (1109 words)

	GLAAD: APA Heritage Month Media Resource Kit 2003
		While it is used tongue-in-cheek, it is considered derogatory by some people and, therefore, advised that media avoid it, unless quoting someone who self-identifies that way or when it is used by an Asian Pacific American in a more opinion or editorial tone.
		An acronym that is used to describe lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning Asian Pacific Americans.
		Include lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Asians and Asian Pacific Americans in coverage that does not necessarily have to do with Asia or Asian Pacific Americans.
	www.glaad.org /media/apa/apa_language.php (1196 words)

	Gay Poetry -- books, reviews, & discussion groups
		Chin, who was born in Malaysia, raised in Singapore, and is now living in San Fra...
		From Greece's forthright Cavafy to France's renegade Genet; from Oscar Wilde's beloved Lord Alfred Douglas to Ginsberg and the Beats; from senior poets such as Harold Norse to the kids who will be writing poems in the new millennium--Gavin...
		Thanks to its inviting small format, appealing design, and involving selection of erotic poems, this is the perfect book for the gay gift market.
	solo17.abac.com /whatsnew/books/other/gaybest.htm (974 words)

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		Chauncy is a historian, not a linguist, but he devotes a good bit of attention to this terminology, is fairly careful, and has gobs and gobs of citations, from the 1890's on (police records, personal letters and recollections, minutes of organizations, novels, etc.) See especially the introductory section on these terms pp.
		Some of the material examines lesbian and/or gay men's speech wrt linguistic structures associated to sex by other researchers, other sections examine features of Ottawa English in general, and several narratives are analyzed in Labovian terms.
		An ethnography of a gay bar (`male homosexual tavern') which does contain a number of references to language used by gays males and has a brief glossary at the end.
	www.ncf.ca /freeport/sigs/life/gay/symbols/gender (1596 words)

	Center for the Study of Sexual Minorities in the Military \| UCSB (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Because American gay and lesbian service members cannot reveal their sexual orientation to peers or to scholars, such an analysis is not possible.
		The studyís primary conclusion is that the presence of acknowledged gay service members does not compromise unit cohesion or operational effectiveness in multinational military units.
		I told him I was gay in the week that I left the mission, and he was astonished, as well.
	www.gaymilitary.ucsb.edu /Publications/2004_02_BatemanSameera.htm (11228 words)

	Calendar
		Gay and Lesbian Pride Month - Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Pride Events are celebrated by communities across Canada/ United States on different dates during June through to early August.
		In 1999, Gay and Lesbian Month was made a national celebration by presidential proclamation.
		It is an international event that gives gay, lesbian and bisexual people the opportunity to "come out" to others about their sexuality.
	www.iassw.org /calendar.htm (6523 words)

	LGBT - SgWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		LGBT (or GLBT) are initials or an acronym used as a collective term to refer to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender people.
		It is considered less controversial than the terms queer or lesbigay and is more comprehensive than homosexual or simply gay.
		Singapore gay art Singapore gay literature Singapore gay venues: contemporary Singapore gay charity work Singapore gay theatre Singapore gay terminology Singapore gay history Singapore gay history: 1st decade of the new millenium Retrieved from "http://www.sgwiki.com/wiki/Special:Whatlinkshere"
	www.sgwiki.com /index.php?title=LGBT&printable=yes (112 words)

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		As a European Christian acclimatized to (indeed a participant in) such friendship, my impression is that all the physicality, despite not being regarded as sexual, does have an erotic component ^Ö people give each other bodily pleasure and, in a sense, they desire one another, otherwise they would not be always touching.
		Southern Christians need to realize that there are hundreds of thousands of faithful homosexual Christians in the Anglican Communion and the whole church of God whose Christian lives need to be respected and, indeed, supported, however they have prayerfully decided to express their sexual feelings.
		Indeed, it is often they more than the catholic traditionalists of Dallas or the charismatics of Singapore or the evangelicals of Sydney who have led or supported the fight for the abolition of apartheid and the forgiveness of international debt.
	www.rci.rutgers.edu /~lcrew/dojustice/j194.html (7442 words)

	Singlish - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Singlish, a portmanteau of the words Singaporean and English, is the English-based creole spoken colloquially in Singapore.
		It shares substantial linguistic similarities with Malaysian English (Manglish) in Malaysia, although distinctions could be made particularly in vocabulary.
		Soon, English filtered out of schools and onto the streets, to be learned by non-English-speakers in a pidgin-like form for communication purposes.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Singlish (3584 words)

	Male Homosexualty (ies) in India / South Asia: Papers and Reports.
		The terms "gay" or "homosexual" are also too constricted by a specific history, geography, language and culture to have any significant usefulness in a different culture from their source.
		It was realised that the terms gay men or homosexual men, may not be appropriate in non Western cultures (not that they were appropriate in Western cultures either for many men!).
		Of course the emergent gay movement in South Asia is extremely important for those who do identify as gay, and also for those who are exploring their own emergent sexual sense of self and gayness and are looking for a positive affirming identity that makes sense to them.
	www.youth-suicide.com /gay-bisexual/homosexuality-India.htm (12583 words)

	Gay slang - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Gay slang · Gay village · Pride · Queer theory · Religion · Separatist feminism · Symbols
		Modern gay slang has origins in the English language, unlike its linguistic sibling, Polari, which derives from Italian languages, Lingua Franca, Yiddish and French.
		Another difference between gay slang and Polari is that gay slang has become descriptive of the overall experience of life in the gay community, whereas Polari includes names for common words that have no exclusive relation to the LGBT culture (e.g., "glossies" for "magazines").
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Gay_slang (427 words)

	AT&T Knowledge Network Explorer: 21st Century Literacies: Multicultural Literacy
		The teacher should also tell the class to be mindful of the different spellings of certain words, particularly words that are culturally and ethnically derived.
		As students start to formulate their search statements, it is important for them to recognize the importance of culturally and geographically specific terminology.
		This may be further complicated when the decision-making process is at the group level where a group perspective may be reached by consensus or majority (often mainstream) rule.
	www.kn.pacbell.com /wired/21stcent/cultural.html (6376 words)

	welcome to lorenjavier.com: welcome to my community: asian american: terminology
		This list was adapted from both the terminology list I put together for the Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Media Resource Kit I edited and co-wrote for GLAAD in 2002 and the style guide written by the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA).
		This is a slang term used to describe lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) Asian Pacific Americans, particularly men, who only date Caucasian people.
		This is a slang term used to describe lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Caucasian people, particularly men, who only date Asian Pacific Americans.
	www.lorenjavier.com /asian/terminology.html (1904 words)

	Category:Singaporean gay and transgender culture - SgWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		In the Island City of Singapore, there is a co-exiting multi-cultural society with dominant Chinese, Malay, Indian and Tamil as the main cultural settings or background.
		However, English being the co-existing and communicating media lingua franca or the local form being term Singlish all are merged into one stream of cultural human experience with a distinctive flair notably Singaporean Singaporean culture ?
		Singapore gay history: 1st decade of the new millenium
	www.www.sgwiki.com /index.php?title=Category:Singaporean_gay_and_transgender_culture&printable=yes (168 words)

	GTeam Media Design Group (Navigaytion) - Sports & Recreation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The Gay Games, which was established on the same basic principles as the Olympics, seems to apply a different standard when choosing to exercise its anti-doping policy.
		Gay preliminary contests are over and now the judges will select the candidate who best represents America's 'boy-next- door.' When he's chosen, he will then compete against "Mr.
		Gay" winners from Germany, Australia, Hungary, Philippines, Iran, Lebanon, Israel and the Vatican City (just to name a few of the 40 representatives) for the Grand Finale title of International Mr.
	navigaytion.com /page-cobrand.cfm?Sectionid=62&... (410 words)

	(Navigaytion) - Sports & Recreation
		It apparently started around 1976 with some old sports dykes on bikes (bicycles, that is) showing up for the tournament.
		The event quickly grew because it was easy to tell who was gay and who wasn’t—mainly due to the sports dyke attire donned by dykes in the know (Read: fanny packs, gym shorts, t-shirts).
		The first organized party was in 1981, and its been getting bigger and glitzier and sexier ever since.
	www.navigaytion.com /page-cobrand.cfm?Sectionid=62&typeofsite=storydetail&ID=395&storyset=yes&site=GayWebDirectory.Net®ion=2 (538 words)

	Singapore sexual slang terminology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Singapore sexual slang terminology is an outcome of its immigrant communities as well as the indigenous Malay community.
		Thus, it is imperative that this historically important (but embarrassing to some) aspect of local culture be preserved for posterity, especially since facility in Chinese dialects is eroding precipitously amongst the younger generation.
		Amazingly not considered very rude in Singapore by rough-edged young male and female Hokkiens popularly known as Ah Bengs and Ah Lians respectively and often interjected in passing, more to express frustration than anger, into perfectly normal social discourse.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Singapore_sexual_slang_terminology (2146 words)

	Times of Oman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		In computer terminology, “master/slave” refers to primary and secondary hard disk drives.
		But a Los Angeles county purchasing department told vendors in late 2003 that the term was offensive and violated the region’s cultural diversity.
		The phrase “non-same sex marriage,” was used by a former congressman who did not want to offend gay people by using the term traditional marriage, Payack said.
	www.timesofoman.com /newsdetails.asp?newsid=6734 (333 words)

	Home Of the Singapore Democrats
		Governments in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion in the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion.
		Religious rhetoric and terminology is common from government leaders, even when the major tenets of the religion are diametrically opposed to the government's policies or actions.
		The industrial and business aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.
	www.singaporedemocrat.org /classic/news_display.php?id=541 (600 words)

	GayMarriageWorld.com - Gay Wedding, Gay Marriage, Gay Honeymoons - Lesbian Wedding, Lesbian Marriage, Lesbian Honeymoon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Pedro Zerolo, a gay rights activist and member of the country's ruling Socialist Party, confirmed it was the first marriage between people of the same sex in Spain and called it “a triumph of common sense and the state of law.”
		The Netherlands and Belgium also allow same-sex marriage, but Zerolo said the legal terminology in Spain's new law is more progressive than in those countries.
		Under the new law, gay couples could also adopt children, but the first gay couple to wed said they weren't interested in adoption.
	www.gaymarriageworld.com /page.cfm?typeofsite=storydetail&ID=647&storyset=yes (608 words)

	WikiMiki.net - 1822 (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		People Like Us (PLU), is the première Singapore advocacy group for gay equality.
		Having been twice rejected by the government board which approves or prohibits organisations, the Registrar of Societies, it is now in its third incarnation as "PLU3".
		The term "PLU" has also gradually become slang for "homosexual" amongst members of Singapore's gay subculture.
	1822.mk.wikimiki.net.cob-web.org:8888 (71 words)

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