Turning the Lion City Pink? Interrogating Singapore's Gay Civil Servant Statement

Out in Public: Reinventing Lesbian/Gay Anthropology in a Globalizing World

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 317-337

  Tan, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Goh's gay civil servant statement focus of the media's attention; Homophobia in traditional media; Interrogating Singapore's gay civil servant statement; Legal bases for homophobic discrimination in Singapore; Section 377, targeting heterosexual and homosexual couples

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881918055     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444310689.ch17     Document Type: Chapter

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