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Singapore bans AIDS concert
Singapore has rejected an application for a concert by a local AIDS support group, citing concern over its gay performers following a spike in HIV cases. Los Angeles-based Christian gay pop musicians Jason and deMarco were the planned feature performers for the April 3 Action for AIDS event organised by Christian group Safehaven.
The ban follows comments this month by a Singapore government minister who said a gay and lesbian festival in August last year may have led to a surge in the number of local AIDS cases, a remark that outraged gay activists.
Singapore?s gay community has only recently enjoyed greater freedoms and after former premier Goh Chok Tong announced in 2003 that homosexuals were now employed in the civil service, a low-key policy shift aimed in part at fostering a creative class. He said homosexuals could hold key positions without fear of discrimination ? a move once unthinkable in a country where oral sex even between men and women is still technically illegal and punishable by up to two years in jail under current laws. ? These people had good intentions, they wanted to do something for its community?.
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