“Executive director of LGBTQ non-profit Oogachaga Leow Yangfa said: “Marriage for anyone is not an easy decision to make, and I don’t know if many people whether here in Singapore or elsewhere would make a major life decision so immediately based on a change in the law in another country.”
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Oogachaga’s Leow noted that some LGBTQ couples have only registered their marriage in countries such as Australia and New Zealand in recent years, despite the legalisation of such unions there earlier. He said: “It didn’t happen overnight.””

“Revolut first launched the Diversity Card in 2023, in partnership with Oogachaga. Through this campaign, Revolut managed to raise close to S$47,000 from over 4,000 donors.”

“A statement from Oogachaga said that Mr Teh, one of the speakers, was very much looking forward to speaking at the event.

In the statement, he said: “It feels extremely unfair that an opportunity for people who are curious and want to learn more about the diversity of sex and gender from different perspectives is being denied simply because others do not deem the subject fit to be explored.”

Mr Leow Yangfa, executive director of Oogachaga, said in the statement that the group is very “dismayed” and “disappointed” that the Science Centre has cancelled an event that had been planned since late last year.”

“The “little representation” on Singapore screens is “along the lines of very unfortunate negative depictions or portrayals of trans characters, playing into very hurtful stereotypes of trans people as either criminals or deviant,” said Leow Yangfa, executive director of Oogachaga, a nonprofit offering counselling to LGBTQ people.”

“Mr Leow Yangfa, executive director of Oogachaga, said it shows there is “no benefit to society” in maintaining these convictions, not even under the pretext of protecting public morality.

“It sets an important tone that the government was not just paying lip service when it led the way in repealing 377A in parliament in 2022, and that it is prepared to take proactive action in righting past wrongs,” added Mr Leow.”

“Decriminalisation was only the “starting line of the long race towards full equality”, said Leow Yangfa, the executive director of LGBTQ counselling group Oogachaga.

“Some may assume that the next lap, or maybe even the finishing line, is marriage equality. In fact, achieving marriage equality would only be just one of the many laps along the way, there are more laps to go,” he said, adding that this included equal treatment and protection in areas like education, healthcare, legal gender recognition and media representation.””