QueerCast #43: Media and the gay question

Posted on September 25, 2007
Filed Under GLBT, activism, coming out, discrimination, gay issues, government, news, podcast, queer issues, religion, singapore
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We are so glad this week to officially welcome Emeric Lau, our new host of QueerCast into the team! Together with our ever-so-fabulous Ian Lee, they really do make a really chemistry-filled couple!

Again, so many things had been happening over the past weeks. Otto Fong, no-repeal of gay sex law (377A), and the NTU survey that was reported out of context by Singapore’s No. 1 selling print newspaper, The Straits Times.

In case you haven’t read the actual survey paper yet, the survey focuses on public attitudes on gay characters depicted in films, and not real life people like your friends, or gay people within the society. Of course, we did not have enough information when we were recording this episode until we read the official paper that can be found here: http://www.mit.edu/%7Emaiyifan/ntusurvey.pdf

If you do not want to read the entire survey, here’s something easy to take-away. The title of the survey is: “SINGAPOREANS’ ATTITUDES TOWARD LESBIANS AND GAY MEN AND THEIR TOLERANCE OF MEDIA PORTRAYALS OF HOMOSEXUALITY“. Food for thought? Thanks to a certain ST reporter for such fine neutrality and honesty in this report.

To get more information about the Oogachaga HIV sharing session, visit: http://oogachaga.com/ws29092007.htm

QueerCast #43: Media and the gay question (15.3MB)
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(Format: MP3, Duration: 27:57 mins, Stereo)

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Featured in this podcast is a song named ‘Strain for the Shimmy’ by Steve Andre. If you want to know more about Steve Andre and his music, visit: http://www.steveandre.net

 
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QueerCast #42: Otto Fong and 377A

Posted on September 20, 2007
Filed Under GLBT, activism, coming out, discrimination, gay issues, gossips, government, news, podcast, queer issues, singapore
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I’m sure you’ve heard about Otto Fong. We talk about the case of Otto Fong this week, how it may affect/change the society views towards gays and gay teachers, and the impact that has done to the society thus far.

This week also marks the failure of our battle for the decriminalisation of gay sex. It has been confirmed that Section 377A of the penal code will not be repealed, although keeping it would make the entire Singapore law laughable for it will not be strictly enforced.

Clarification: Otto Fong has not been fired. We do not have enough information at the time of recording.

Download and find out more juicy bits about all these that are happening in Singapore!

QueerCast #42: Otto Fong and 377A (18.6MB)
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(Format: MP3, Duration: 32:23 mins, Stereo)

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If you want to know more about Steve Andre and his music, visit: http://www.steveandre.net

 
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RSS feed problems

Posted on September 18, 2007
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In the past few weeks, you may have experienced problems trying to sync to our blog feed. This is caused by a bad RSS file. Technically, it is called a malformed RSS file, where a lot of unsupported tags were migrated into the feed from our blog posts, causing the RSS markup to be invalid.

After some digging around, it has been fixed. If you haven’t subscribed to us through feeds, you can do so by using these links:

Blog feeds: http://feeds.feedburner.com/queercast/blog
Podcast feeds: http://feeds.feedburner.com/queercast/show/
iTunes Music Store link: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=250571183

Most modern web browers support RSS feeds, which is a more than easy way to keep up-to-date to the latest news/blog updates right from your browser. Internet Explorer 7.0 added support for standard RSS feeds too.

QueerCast strongly recommends Firefox. :-)

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