UPDATE 07/08/07: Turns out these events are not as cancelled as they appear. ;)
The National Parks Board has just told us that the Pink Run (an athletic run around the Botanical Gardens) and the In the Pink picnic on National Day have both been banned. Probably some homophobe wrote in to them to complain.
It's staggering to me that they could do that - all we were going to do was turn up in pink and eat food and talk cock and run - it's not a rally or parade at all (if we were that organised, then we'd either have legal recognition or be exiled to Sentosa by now).
The Illegal Assemblies Act has never struck home so hard before. Every meeting of - four, five, what? - people, even to roast chicken wings or study or pray, is against the law without a permit. We are living in a police state - they can arrest us for so many things (and God knows, they don't even need a reason to lawfully detain us).
Very upset. Oh, and the "Tall Tales and Short Stories" reading went fine, thank you.
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Prob 'cos it promotes a "gay lifestyle" or something.
But if running around a park in the sunshine and picnicking is part of the "gay lifestyle", maybe it's not so bad ya?
/skin, pale from hours under fluorescent office lighting; fat, from too much oily, overpriced hawker food gulped down in place of lunch
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