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1. Jeb February 16, 2008 10:52 pm

   Hey guys - Good to hear you are back and your podcast. I definitely agree that how anyone carries out teir activism has to be considered within the context of their social reality. What works in other places may be a model for consideration, but certainly never a requirement on how to accomplish a goal in Singapore. Even in the US (on a good day) we are multi-faceted in how different people believe gay activism should be carried out…on a bad day we can be outright dysfunctional. The one thing I do not think we can be is SILENT.

   If we choose to let others determine for us how we will act, dress, and whom we can love than we do have a problem. From my personal experience and that of others, I am always amazed when “straight” people find out someone they have known for awhile is gay. Oh my God, it can shake their world to its foundation because the person that came out, “did not act like [they] were gay!” I really feel sorry for people like that who have boxed their world in so tightly that it gets turned upside down when someone is different than they thought. The good news is that **most** of the straight people that I know who have had this kind of experience have gone on to still be good friends/family with those of us that have come out as gay. Of course there are a few who have turned their backs on someone who has come out as gay because they somehow feel their sexuality is threatening them (they definitely have some other issues going on) or because their religion tells them gays are “bad people”…to those particular self-righteous, holier than others people I just want to say I know exactly where the problem is and it is not me :O

   Is there a time and place to stand up and shout that we are not going to stand for something anymore? Definitely! But there is also the need to work within the structures we have and to build the relationships that say, when you boil it all down, who we choose to sleep with and love (straight or gay) is a relatively small part of who we are and what we do on a given day.

   Just one potatoe’s opinion :)

2. circuit boy February 22, 2008 3:35 pm

   yet again, you guys keep saying (twice at least, i think) gay people go to club as an escape from the repression they suffer in “real life”.

   how about partying as a celebration of life?

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