Hey, hey, what's up? It's Gustavo Ariano. Today we bring you our last episode from our Pride Month coverage about queer people around the world and how they build and find pride in their communities.

In this episode, Times producer, David Toledo, one of my hefes, he brings us to Singapore on the eve of their annual pride celebration where LGBTQ activists are pushing for liberation, especially when it comes to their sexuality.

It's not a very common thing to like embrace your sexuality, you know, like the same way the world was shocked when you had like the Brittany era in the 2000s

and Christina Aguilera dirty or Madonna erotica and sex book.

Like, while that was jaw-dropping for people in the West, I think it was even more here in Asia as well.

It was like super taboo, but it was also very much a, that's them, that's not us.

The us here is Singapore, a country that's multicultural, it's super diverse, but it's also a socially

conservative place. I mean, you can end up in prison for things like vandalism, or walking around your house naked,

or even selling chewing gum, which means queer people there are up against a lot of restrictions.

I think it's a statement of fact that social attitudes about the LGBTQ community are still evolving. They're not evolving as fast as we're like it to be.

Many of us are incredibly impatient.

A lot of the changes that we're looking to see in the future are already overdue.

Just this year, Singapore's top court upheld Section 377A, which is a British colonial-era law prohibiting consenting sex between men, even in the privacy of their own bedroom.

Against some sort of perverse kind of cosmic irony, even though it was left behind by the British,

it's now retained on our books as the justification of Asian values, you know, conservative family values.

And actually the gay rights movement is the one that's characterized as a foreign import.

And while the government says it doesn't strictly enforce the law, anyone who breaks it could

face up to two years behind bars.

I think on LGBT issues, I've stated my position is one where we move carefully because it

is really a conservative population.

I think we let the views evolve with time.

But legal setbacks aside, tomorrow thousands of queer Singaporeans and LGBTQ allies

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