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But it’ll be interesting to see how Singapore’s first queer politician is received. She is very open and known (she’s my age, and of course I know her).

Fundamentally like with lots of things about rights in Singapore, class and race matters more. She is a Chinese Singaporean who is a professional who went to the right schools. Just as I did. And like her, I guess I thought it was totally fine to be queer there until I decided to marry a foreigner and learned what it’s like to live there as a queer person without rights. My privileges aren’t enough.

And that is why I became an immigrant and am living in a burning empire