Months after Singapore decriminalized consensual gay sex, the city-state’s closest thing to a Pride event highlights how far its LGBT community has come—and how far it still has to go.
In the wake of Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s Aug 21 pledge to protect the nation’s definition of marriage, which excludes same-sex unions, in the Constitution, the government quickly mobilised top ministers to try to calm a storm brewing between the LGBTQI+ community and some religious groups.