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But the defiance of it, the joy that comes with being able to show off your partner and the confidence in getting to be yourself as well, the combination would have naturally spoken to a lot of queer people within the country as well,” they said.Ĭhina decriminalised same-sex relationships in 1997, but same-sex marriage is not legal there and the LGBTQ+ community continues to face discrimination and censorship.Īctivists say the clip, and the reaction it has provoked, illustrates how outdated Singapore’s laws are. “We don’t know who this guy is, of course, so we don’t know if he knew they were kissing for CNA specifically or just a camera in general. It is the look given by one of the men, who poses directly to camera post-kiss, that has caught many people’s attention, said a representative of Kaleidoscope NTU, a group formed by students at Nanyang Technological university to raise awareness of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, as well as gender, race and class. It has also been shared widely on Weibo, a popular social media platform in China.
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“This is actually an act of revolution,” one user wrote. But on TikTok a clip of the kiss has been viewed more than 825,000 times. The kiss does not feature in a version of the report published by Channel News Asia (CNA) on its website.