Singapore’s media officials don’t appreciate lesbian love. The nation’s Media Development Authority fined cable company StarHub about $7,200 for airing a music video featuring girl-on-girl action:
The music video of the song, titled “Silly Child” by Mandarin singer Olivia Yan, shows an intimate kissing scene before one of the women rejects her boyfriend at the end of the clip.
“This is in breach of the TV advertising guidelines, which disallows advertisements that condone homosexuality,” the media authority said.
Because apparently depiction automatically qualifies as advertisement. Ridiculous!
queerunity
well atleast it got on the air, so its worth the 7k in the grand scheme of the fight for queer media coverage
http://www.queersunited.blogspot.com
CitizenGeek
Singapore is an oddity – a wealthy and intensely homophobic country. Usually, with wealth and education, the acceptance of homosexuality goes up.
RightHere
Typical singaBORE, a sadly repressed little island with sad and repressed people. I guess it explains why so many of them fly to Taipei and Sydney for huge gay dance parties, oh, and flock to the toilets of the department stores.
Eleonora
Hi,
you can watch the video of the song here: http://www.gayaweb.it/sito/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=755&Itemid=&Itemid=531
Ele