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Our reader is unhappy that she has to give up her Singapore citizenship for a New Zealand one, having lived there for 20 years with her lesbian partner. She thinks it's a move to deny her vote as the government is becoming more 'fundamentalist'.

Here is what I learned going to this years Pink Dot (my first) as a straight, Christian-raised, middle aged father. I'm not gay. I'm not an activist. I have no (pro or anti) LGBT agenda. I just figure the world has enough real problems. Pink Dot and what it represents ain't one of them.

A netizen sent a screenshot of a conservative Singaporean who is accusing shops who sell rainbow cakes of supporting a gay agenda. What do you think?

Attention please! I just saw this on SIM University's counselling page while thumbing through resources available for LGBTQ+ teens for my project. The church listed in SIM's counselling resources section includes one organization named "Choices".

A reader, nrnsyrh, shared this heartbreaking story of her "coming out" into her sexuality. The reader spent her whole teenage life struggling against her sexuality, wondering why she was always attracted to girls. She says she has never been attracted to boys her whole life and felt alone and ostracized because of the experience since everyone around her was attracted to members of the opposite sex.

Coldplay singer Chris Martin delighted the crowd at Coldplay's Singapore concert yesterday by picking up an LGBTQ+ community rainbow flag from a member of the audience and carrying it during his performance.

Local activists are calling on organizers behind Art Zoo, Asia's largest sustainable lights festival, to cut its donations to a local Christian social welfare group, Focus On The Family Singapore. They argue that an anti-LGBT organization should not be a beneficiary

Singapore's universities have become more Lesbian Gay Bi and Transgender (LGBT) friendly, but they are still far from ideal, says a commentator on LGBT rights in Singapore. With the failure of LGBT groups to abolish Section 377A of the Penal Code, which criminalizes sexual intercourse between men and government restrictions on foreign corporate funding for Pink Dot, LGBT activists face an uphill battle.

I've always felt like a girl ever since I was a little kid. My earliest memory was when I was 2 or 3 years old, screaming and throwing a tantrum because my parents wouldn't let me wear a dress. Eventually when I was 14, I learned about transgender people and started taking hormone pills (estrogen) by myself.

While speaking about jobs and the economy with 300 students at a Polytechnic Forum in Republic Polytechnic on Friday, Mr Chan Chan Sing, minister without portfolio, offered some personal views on the LGBT community.