{"id":35455,"date":"2021-06-11T02:44:12","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T02:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=35455"},"modified":"2021-06-11T02:44:12","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T02:44:12","slug":"lgbtq-the-podcast-telling-singapores-hidden-gay-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=35455","title":{"rendered":"LGBTQ: The podcast telling Singapore’s hidden gay stories"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Joshua, Kennede and Sam Jo call themselves The SG Boys. They have started one of the first LGBTQ podcasts in Singapore – where gay sex is still illegal.<\/p>\n

Singapore’s government argues that the ban must remain to reflect society’s conservative views, and as a compromise it has said it will not enforce the law.<\/p>\n

But LGBTQ activists argue that as long as it remains, it perpetuates a stigma and fuels discrimination.<\/p>\n

The SG Boys tell the BBC about the challenges of living as a gay person in Singapore, and how they hope their podcast will spread love and empathy for their community.<\/p>\n

Video by Tessa Wong.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Joshua, Kennede and Sam Jo call themselves The SG Boys. They have started one of the first LGBTQ podcasts in Singapore – where gay sex is still illegal. Singapore’s government argues that the ban must remain to reflect society’s conservative views, and as a compromise it has said it will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hindi-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/118881167_p09l4dvb.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}