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Aug 01, 2007
Quickie Link: Singapore Gays Hold Annual Pride Festival
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By vanrozenheim
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(Singapore) - Singapore's gay community began its third annual pride festival Wednesday with renowned British actor Ian McKellen voicing his support for the event. McKellen said the festival was a platform for the community to make its voice heard in tightly-governed Singapore. In a video message, McKellen said: "it's very important that gay people, wherever they are, should identify themselves, stick up for themselves, represent themselves, modestly and positively, so the rest of the world knows that we're here and we're not going to go away." Known as Indignation, the festival is scheduled around Singapore's independence day on August 9 and will run from August 1-15. Despite being one of Asia's most advanced societies, homosexuals acts are still outlawed in Singapore under laws dating back to British colonial days.
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