Singapore remains one of the few countries in Asia that has yet
to decriminalise homosexuality. Yet it has also been hailed by many
as one of the emerging gay capitals of Asia. This book accounts for
the rise of mediated queer cultures in Singapore's current milieu
of illiberal citizenship. This collection analyses how contemporary
queer Singapore has emerged against a contradictory backdrop of
sexual repression and cultural liberalisation. Using the innovative
framework of illiberal pragmatism, established and emergent local
scholars and activists provide expansive coverage of the impact of
homosexuality on Singapore's media cultures and political economy,
including law, religion, the military, literature, theatre,
photography, cinema, social media and queer commerce. It shows how
new LGBT subjectivities have been fashioned through the governance
of illiberal pragmatism, how pragmatism is appropriated as a form
of social and critical democratic action, and how cultural
citizenship is forged through a logic of queer complicity that
complicates the flows of oppositional resistance and grassroots
appropriation.
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