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QueerCast Episode #65 - Interview with AFA (25.06MB)
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(Format: MP3, Duration: 35:09 mins, Stereo)

Controversial Nick D is back in hot & sunny Singapore again (hurhur) - with fabulous co-hosts, Ian Lee & Emeric Lau, as they discussed several controversial issues in the space of thirty minutes. Nick D declares this episode to be 90% all about him! ;)

• 1:35 min: Nick D bump into a friend at a local spa. Thing is, he has a wife who is expecting a baby. What should Nick D do or  do nothing? Please comment or send an email to us.
• 8:30 min: Nick D found out the gayest street in the heartlands of Singapore.
• 12:45 min: Nick D got to know of a new gay spa that’s opening up where he used to hang out during his teenage days.
• 13:01 min: Nick D is not too sure about the appeal of the new replacement bar for Mox, DYMK.
• 14:40 min: Nick D displays his irritation with the Attorney-General of Singapore, Walter Woon - with regards to human rights and the application of the Section 377A ruling.
• 17:30 min: Emeric Lau gives an example of the behaviour of Singapore Police force executing raid on a local spa.
• 28:05 min: End of podcast - you may continue listening for clubbing beats until 44th minute! :)

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QueerCast Episode #64 - Nick D is back/Singapore’s Interpretation of Human Rights (33.40MB)
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(Format: MP3, Duration: 44:09 mins, Stereo)

The contestants come from diverse background. From a polytechnic student, to a stock broker to events manager. All of them have the burning desire to win the top prize, a $3500 bounty worth of cash, trophy and vouchers.

Hear what they say about themselves and what makes them the Andro of 2008. SUTUA is co-organized by TwoQueens & Play Club.

Competition Schedule:

All rounds are held at Play, 21 Tanjong Pagar Road.
Doors open 9pm.

QueerCast #63: Two Queens Party - So U Think U’re Andro 08 (12.55MB)
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(Format: MP3, Duration: 19:25 mins, Stereo)

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Click HERE to view the images captured during the Podcast Interview.

This is the first of many episodes where we will have podcast updates from Nick D at Philadelphia. In this issue, we explore the life of an individual who is bisexual and have two kids.

Do you have any issues with bisexuals? In Singapore, these individuals faced constant consternations from the gay community. Some even got married and have kids.

How would this scenario play out in the United States? Nick D explores one such individual, Bill, who went through this path, but with differing motivations and reasons for doing so.

QueerCast #61: US Edition (9.70MB)
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(Format: MP3, Duration: 22:27 mins, Stereo)

© Image credited to Mariec | Dreamstime.com

1) Trembling before God (84mins)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trembling_Before_G-d

Awards

2) Rene’s Story (77mins)
Rene, 31, a female-to-male gender reassignment candidate took hormones
for years and “passed” as a man for all of his adult life. Married to
his high-school sweetheart, Wona, a heterosexual woman, for 12 years,
no one would guess Rene was biologically a woman. Living under a veil
of secrecy and lies, Rene and Wona’s lives seemed fine until someone
“outted” the couple at their beloved church and everything they knew
was destroyed. The public revelation of Rene’s secret starts to
unravel his marriage to Wona. Through all of it, Rene continues to
hold on to his lifelong obsession to become a biological male and goes
on a cross-country search to find the best transgender surgeon, only
to discover that the current surgery options are flawed. At the last
minute, Rene finds a surgeon who has created an experimental
procedure, which will be seen in THE OPPOSITE SEX for the first time.

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RSVP - This event is by invitation only, as there are limited seats,
prior registration is required.
For an invite -please email [pelangipridecentre at yahoo dot com] to
RSVP with your name, contact number, the name/s of your guests.

Details at a Glance
Event: “Trembling before God” and “Rene’s Story”.
Date: Saturday, 10th May 2008 (100508)
Time: 4pm
Venue: Pelangi Pride Centre - 54 Rowell Road (in Little India)
Cost per person: $6 (cost of 2 drinks and finger food)

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For directions on how to get to the new PPC:

Come into Hindoo Road from Jalan Besar. Look for tall HDB block 639 at
the end of the road. Corner terrace house with grapevines growing.
Come in from the back door.

A film that has been banned for the past 11 years, will at last be screened in Singapore. The gala premiere will be a benefit event to raise funds for this year’s Indignation season.

And what an appropriate film it is - Wilde, a highly acclaimed film telling the story of Oscar Wilde, who was and remains the most famous person ever to be convicted under the UK’s “gross indecency” law. That law is the ancestor of our infamous Section 377A.

Oscar Wilde was a celebrated genius of the English stage. His works, including The Importance of Being Earnest, are still performed today.

But he was also gay - and some of you might say ‘but naturally, he being a creative genius and all’.

His greatest love was an upper class young man - Lord Alfred Douglas, whose father, the Marquess of Queensberry, was violently homophobic and who harassed Wilde until he found an opportunity to take him to court. The irony was that it was Wilde who created that opportunity for him.

Yet, Queensberry did not want his son’s name brought up in the trial, and so the case against Wilde was not built around the affair between Wilde and Douglas but built on the testimony of rentboys whom Wilde had been intimate with. If that hypocrisy was not enough, the chattering classes of the day also implicated the foreign minister in the campaign to convict Wilde.

It’s a tale that somehow doesn’t seem far away when we still have Section 377A and the police are still raiding saunas (looking for convenient evidence?)

And did you know that the famous expression “the love that dare not speak its name” was coined by none other than Lord Alfred Douglas, in his poem, Two Loves

“Unasked by night; I am true Love, I fill
The hearts of boy and girl with mutual flame.”
Then sighing, said the other, “Have thy will,
I am the love that dare not speak its name.”

Please support this benefit gala on Tuesday, 13 May 2008 at Lido. You can buy tickets ($20 or $50 - the latter with cocktail reception) from Fridae’s website (www.fridae.com/wilde/)

Fridae�??s gala premiere is an important fundraiser for Indignation, since Indignation events themselves (scheduled for August 2008) are traditionally free of charge, in order to be accessible to everyone. Tickets are priced at $20 (US$15) and $50 (US$38) - the latter includes a cocktail reception - and are available from Fridae�??s movie site www.fridae.com/wilde/index.htm or more directly from Fridae�??s movie tickets shop at http://www.fridae.com/shop/cart/home.php?cat=416.

It will help greatly towards another successful Indignation Gay Pride Season.

Please also disseminate this email to as many friends as you can.

People Like Us would like to thank sponsor/organiser Fridae.com, and sponsors Crocodile Men’s Wear and Shaw Theatres.

See also
www.plu.sg
www.plu.sg/indignation
www.fridae.com

images credited to www.plu.sg

Another news which is also not an April’s Fools joke is the closure of the iconoclastic Mox Bar & Cafe. Mox Bar is a place where we have done numerous podcasts and where we have witnessed a tremendous amount of newsworthy & historic events that took place, contributing to the rich history of gay Singapore.

In this issue, we have not one, not two but THREE bumper podcast episodes.

We talked about love. We engaged Rob & Harry and Skyped with our dearest Nicholas.

QueerCast #58:Love Love Love (36.91MB)

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(Format: MP3, Duration: 40:19 mins, Stereo)

QueerCast #59: Interview with Rob & Harry (26MB)

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(Format: MP3, Duration: 28:36 mins, Stereo)

QueerCast #60: Skyping with Nicholas Deroose (29.8MB)

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(Format: MP3, Duration: 32:38 mins, Stereo)

All cheers to the amount of work Singapore has put in to make all these come true!

Singapore will be hosting the games from 14-16 August 2010.

(Photo credit channelnewsasia.com)

Related reports:
ChannelNewsAsia - Report
Olympics.org - Announcement

On this episode, we examine the gay culture, where we’ve been, where we’re at and where we’re going (hopefully). We re-explore what are our biggest issues at the moment!

Also a big thank you to Jafar Sinwan, who created the sound clip we’ll be using in our show!

Validation, Validation!

QueerCast #57: Review of the Community (24.1MB)
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(Format: MP3, Duration: 26:09 mins, Stereo)

Also in this episode is the cast from the “home team” in Chestnuts; Jonathan Lim, who will be starring in this production like in the previous years!

Man, haven’t we got you hungry for this juicy episode already.

Download now to check out some of the tip offs of what will be in store for you this year in the fabulously hilarious production everyone is waiting for: Chestnuts - Chesty Nutty Bang Bang!

QueerCast #56: Chesty Nutty Bang Bang! (12.9MB)
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(Format: MP3, Duration: 24:14 mins, Stereo)

More photos
http://picasaweb.google.com/85ianlee/Chestnuts

Venue
Drama Centre (Level 3, National Library)

Dates
Preview - 23 Jan 8pm
Shows - 24 Jan to 3 Feb, 8pm nightly (except Sun and Mon), 3pm matinées on Sat & Sun

Tickets
Advisory: Adult Themes and Strong Language (16 years and above)
Preview - $20, $15
Nights -$40, $30, $20
Matinees - $35, $25, $15
Prices exclude $2 GATECRASH booking fee for ticket prices $20 and above;
$1 GATECRASH booking fee for ticket prices below $20.

Get your tickets:
- Online at www.GATECRASH.com.sg
- Call GATECRASH Hotline at 6222-5595
- At all SingPost Branches & S.A.M. Kiosks

More information
Stages - nowstagethis.com