Gay Star News interviews Jean Chong, leading lesbian activist in #Singapore: #LGBT

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Gay Star News interviews Jean Chong, leading lesbian activist in #Singapore: #LGBT

The LGBT rights movement in Singapore has been mainly dominated by gay men, but Gay Star News met Jean Chong of lesbian group Sayoni and discovered that sisters are doing it for themselves. Did you have any role models when you were growing up as a lesbian in Singapore? No, I always wished there were lesbian role models when I was growing up. There were so much confusion, silence and questions. It was hard to even reach out to other LGBT persons because there was no internet in my teenage years until I was in tertiary education. It was only at that time with greater freedom to travel, with some help from the internet and books that I finally found the language for the many questions and distress i felt as a gay woman. With the emergence of the internet [Singapore's first LGBT rights group] People Like Us started organizing and I was there at their town hall meeting and rea...

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