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🇸🇬 Campus SuperStar champ Ng Cheeyang once afraid of disappointing parents for being queer: 'They might think they had failed'
"Life is too short, why should we live to meet other people's expectations?"
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https://www.asiaone.com/entertainment/campus-superstar-ng-cheeyang-afraid-disappointing-parents-queer

🇯🇵 Japan trans woman, 64, enjoys slow-paced life with lover, 86, wears princess dresses on dates
"She did not try to convince the world to understand her. She chose to build a life with someone who already does."
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https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/article/3344558/japan-trans-woman-64-enjoys-slow-paced-life-lover-86-wears-princess-dresses-dates

🏳️‍🌈 Homecoming premiere of Tracy Choi’s ‘Girlfriends’ explores identity and belonging
"I enjoyed that very much because it allows the film to connect with different audiences, not only girls and not only the LGBT community."
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https://macaudailytimes.com.mo/homecoming-premiere-of-tracy-chois-girlfriends-explores-identity-and-belonging.html

🇲🇾 Malaysia’s push to curb LGBTQ dating apps like Grindr tests limits of internet control
Authorities have already blocked access to the websites of Grindr and Blued.
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https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/lifestyle-culture/article/3344737/malaysias-push-curb-lgbtq-dating-apps-grindr-tests-limits-internet-control
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🍾 [Party] GRRRL PWR
🗓: 7 Mar, 11pm onwards
📍: Rabbit's Hole
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https://www.instagram.com/p/DVaNIesiZw2

🚐 [Testing] Free & Anonymous HIV Testing
🗓: 11 Mar, 6pm to 9pm
📍: Little India
🔻
https://www.instagram.com/p/DVXrWAqEQ1H

🏀 [Sports] ACAVE: Basketball
🗓: 13 Mar, 8pm to 10pm
📍: ActiveSG at Bedok North
🔻
https://www.instagram.com/p/DVYcmjbjyfu

✂️ [Workshop] Aces Going Places: Makers' March
🗓: 15 Mar, 2pm to 5pm
📍: Proud Spaces
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https://www.instagram.com/p/DVYORoGkvTb
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🇵🇭 ‘We’re here to win’: This gay Filipino athlete is the sports role model Asia needs
"Things do get better. Now I’m really proud to be who I am."
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https://www.outsports.com/2026/3/4/24129706/karl-bautista-gay-athlete-hyrox-fitness-philippines-lgbtq

🇰🇷 Human rights body approves foundation supporting transgender people after nearly 2 years
"I apologize to the preparatory committee for the approval's delay due to unreasonable reasons, such as a certain member's continued opposition."
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https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/southkorea/society/20260305/human-rights-body-approves-foundation-supporting-transgender-people-after-nearly-2-years

🇮🇳 The Supreme Court senior advocate is “deeply honoured” to be nominated
"I look forward to representing the interests of the people of West Bengal & to serve ‘We the People’ of India."
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https://diva-magazine.com/2026/03/04/will-menaka-guruswamy-be-indias-first-lgbtqia-member-of-parliament

🇮🇳 A Group of Trans Women in India Helped Vaccinate Almost 1,500 Children
"They were excellent communicators and played a crucial role in overcoming vaccine hesitancy."
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https://www.them.us/story/trans-women-india-helped-vaccinate-almost-1500-children
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📋 [Discussion] No Uniform: An Assembly for Queer Studies
🗓: 21 Mar, 1pm to 6pm
📍: Proud Spaces
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https://proudspaces.sg/events/no-uniform-an-assembly-for-queer-studies

📖 [Discussion] The Other Book Club Book: The South
🗓: 26 Mar, 7.30pm onwards
📍: TBA
🔻
https://www.eventbrite.sg/e/the-other-book-club-book-discussion-session-march-2026-tickets-1984394377000

🧵 [Discussion] Thread of Resilience – Weaving Art, Story and Solidarity
🗓: 28 Mar, 12pm to 5.30pm
📍: Proud Spaces
🔻
https://proudspaces.sg/events/thread-of-resilience-weaving-art-story-and-solidarity

🛍️ [Market] T-Mart: TDOV Community Flea Market
🗓: 29 Mar, 11am to 6pm
📍: Proud Spaces
🔻
https://www.instagram.com/p/DVoEMDKj9Hg
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🏳️‍🌈 Pixar chief says LGBTQ+ plot elements cut from Elio as company is ‘not making therapy’
“As time’s gone on, I realised my job is to make sure the films appeal to everybody.”
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https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/mar/09/pixar-chief-lgbtq-plot-cut-elio-not-therapy-pete-docter

🇹🇭 Book Theerachaya claims the crown at Miss Tiffany’s 2026
"This moment belongs to everyone who never gives up."
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https://www.pattayamail.com/news/book-theerachaya-claims-the-crown-at-miss-tiffanys-2026-538439

🇮🇳 A mural in Chennai celebrates the ‘everydayness’ of queer life
"The idea is to take up space, unapologetically, loudly, and proudly. The entire palette is that of a pride flag."
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https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/a-mural-celebrates-the-everydayness-of-queer-life/article70704121.ece

🇵🇭 Reimagining queer activism with arts in Southeast Asia
"Art has long been a site of resistance, care and survival for queer communities in Southeast Asia."
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https://tribune.net.ph/2026/03/09/reimagining-queer-activism-with-arts-in-southeast-asia
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🃏 [Sports] ACAVE: Contract Bridge
🗓: 20 Mar, 7pm to 9.30pm
📍: Proud Spaces
🔻
https://proudspaces.sg/events/contract-bridge

✏️ [Bingo] Not Your Standard Bingo
🗓: 20 Mar, 8pm onwards
📍: The Standard
🔻
https://www.instagram.com/p/DVtJ0-MiWrs

🎲 [Gaming] qUNI’s Board Games Session
🗓: 22Mar, 2pm to 6pm
📍: Proud Spaces
🔻
https://proudspaces.sg/events/qunis-board-games-session

👟 [Tour] "Of Communities and Spaces" Pride Tour
🗓: 28 Mar, 4.30pm onwards
📍: Various locations
🔻
https://ocaslgbtq20260328.peatix.com
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🇹🇼 Support for transgender conscripts to be improved: ministry
The government would also strengthen gender-friendly environments and ensure healthcare and medical safety for conscripts during training.
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https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2026/03/11/2003853647

🇮🇳 Blood donation ban on LGBTQ+ persons retained after review: Centre tells SC
"In such an era, a blanket prohibition emanating from a highly discriminatory view of gay persons does not stand to reason."
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https://www.newindianexpress.com/amp/story/nation/2026/Mar/12/blood-donation-ban-on-lgbtq-persons-retained-after-review-centre-tells-sc

🇵🇭 A gay children’s book for the ages
The books are "Green Roses: Gay Stories" and "How to Read and Write Better."
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https://www.manilatimes.net/2026/03/14/opinion/columns/a-gay-childrens-book-for-the-ages/2299739

🇮🇳 Draft bill moots transgender definition overhaul
While the 2019 Act recognizes the right to self-perceived gender identity, allowing individuals to identify as male, female, or transgender, the proposed bill removes it.
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https://www.newindianexpress.com/amp/story/nation/2026/Mar/14/draft-bill-moots-transgender-definition-overhaul
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💬 [Discussion] Youth for Change
🗓: 17 Mar, 10am to 1pm
📍: 30 Merchant Road
🔻
https://www.instagram.com/makethechangesg/p/DV7wLvFGppC

💎 [Drag] Opulence in Blue
🗓: 29 Mar, 4.30pm to 10pm
📍: SCAPE
🔻
https://www.instagram.com/p/DVYeOVUASEf

🧗🏾 [Sports] ClimbingQTs Meetup
🗓: 29 Mar, 5.30pm to 8.30pm
📍: Lighthouse Climbing
🔻
https://www.instagram.com/p/DVJTDpeka07

🎲 [Meetup] Aces Going Places x Proud Spaces: Good Game Friday
🗓: 3 Apr, 2pm to 6pm
📍: Proud Spaces
🔻
https://proudspaces.sg/events/good-game-friday
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🇹🇭 Thailand advances to first round of bid to host Worldpride 2030
Thailand is promoting its recent progress on marriage equality and the strength of its LGBTQ+ community as key advantages in the bid.
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https://www.khaosodenglish.com/featured/2026/03/12/thailand-advances-to-first-round-of-bid-to-host-worldpride-2030

🇳🇵 Nepal’s LGBTQ community celebrates first transgender woman lawmaker
More than 900,000 people identify as sexual minorities in Nepal, which has some of South Asia’s most progressive laws on LGBTQ rights.
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https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/south-asia/article/3346797/nepals-lgbtq-community-celebrates-first-transgender-woman-lawmaker

🇮🇳 We, the transgender people of India, reject the erasure of our identity
The Bill proposes that individuals must undergo examination by a district-level medical board to establish that they are “genuine” transgender persons.
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https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/we-the-transgender-people-of-india-reject-the-erasure-of-our-identity-10588132

🇯🇵 No LGBTQ+ measures at over half of workplaces in Japan: survey
"It's necessary to secure places where such individuals can feel secure as well as a consultation system, given that discrimination against those people is on the rise."
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https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/03/16/japan/lgbtq-measures-workplace-survey
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🏓 [Sports] ACAVE: Pickleball
🗓: 27 Mar, 7pm to 10pm
📍: Dover
🔻
https://www.instagram.com/acave.sg/p/DV_Iz44j5rB

🧵 [Workshop] Femmes and Thems: I Felt That
🗓: 5 Apr, 2pm to 5pm
📍: Proud Spaces
🔻
https://proudspaces.sg/events/femmes-and-thems-i-felt-that

🍵 [Gathering] Hari Raya Celebration with The T Project
🗓: 5 Apr, 6pm to 10pm
📍: Proud Spaces
🔻
https://proudspaces.sg/events/hari-raya-celebration-with-the-t-project

💬 [Discussion] NeuroQueering: Getting Curious About ADHD
🗓: 11 Apr, 11am to 1pm
📍: TBA
🔻
https://www.instagram.com/oogachaga/p/DVXiv0Mgnyp
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🇯🇵 ‘This Is I’: A Spirited, Musical Biopic of Transgender Star Ai Haruna, Colorful Film Shows Power of Entertainment
The film produced in Japan tells the star’s tumultuous but wonderful success story, featuring gorgeous dance scenes and hit songs from the 1980s and ’90s.
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https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/culture/film-tv/20260320-317499

🏳️‍🌈 LGBTQ Conversion Therapy Harms Us All
"I left closer to suicide than I had ever been in my life, and further from the God I loved and the family I believed had supported me."
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https://time.com/article/2026/03/18/lgbtq-conversion-therapy-harms-us-all

🇲🇾 Malaysia’s LGBTQ crackdowns aren’t hypocrisy, they’re politics
Anwar’s government isn’t failing its ideals. It’s navigating a reality where Malay-Muslim legitimacy dictates the limits of social change.
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https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3347361/malaysias-lgbtq-crackdowns-arent-hypocrisy-theyre-politics

🇰🇷 Korea's largest museum exhibition on queer art to date to open at Art Sonje Center
"I’m very glad that we brought the show to Seoul, but it is only one chapter in this struggle toward a better world."
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https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2026-03-18/culture/artsDesign/Koreas-largest-museum-exhibition-on-queer-art-to-date-to-open-at-Art-Sonje-Center/2547971
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🎞️ [Screening] AMOEBA
🗓: 26 Mar, 8.30pm onwards
📍: Filmhouse
🔻
https://www.instagram.com/p/DV03q6skyVA

🚐 [Testing] Free Anonymous HIV Testing
🗓: 28 Mar, 9pm to 11pm
📍: 29 Neil Road
🔻
https://www.instagram.com/p/DWN8DHNFBrr

🌈 [Celebration] Bangkok Pride Festival 2026: Patch the World With Pride
🗓: 28 to 31 May
📍: Bangkok
🔻
https://www.instagram.com/p/DVtFh-8k2io

💬 [Discussion] What is Buddhism, Really?
🗓: 11 Apr, 2pm to 4.30pm
📍: Proud Spaces
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https://proudspaces.sg/events/what-is-buddhism-really
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🇮🇳 Trans community alarmed as India moves to curb LGBTQ rights
"If the state decides who you are, what happens to who you know yourself to be?"
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https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260324-trans-community-alarmed-as-india-moves-to-curb-lgbtq-rights

🇭🇰 Sexual fantasy, fan fiction, fairy tales: Hong Kong queer artists challenge norms
Hart Haus is hosting two new exhibitions by queer female artists who use escapist themes to offer their grounded reflections on modern society.
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https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3347133/sexual-fantasy-fan-fiction-fairy-tales-hong-kong-queer-artists-challenge-norms

🇮🇳 Transgenders look for education, employment through government initiatives
"Transgender persons are interested in politics, but are not really accepted as candidates."
🔻
https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Tiruchirapalli/transgenders-look-for-education-employment-through-government-initiatives/article70779909.ece

🇹🇭 Thailand's same-sex marriage law, one year on
"The goal was never just to change the law. It was to make it part of everyday life."
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https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/backstories/4676
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🍻 [Party] Stay Gold
🗓: 28 Mar, 9pm onwards
📍: Bar Nkd
🔻
https://www.instagram.com/p/DWQVhVlERol

🍾 [Party] Cvnty Puff Girls
🗓: 28 Mar, 10pm onwards
📍: Hard Rock Cafe
🔻
https://www.instagram.com/reels/DV8KeaFASaL

🛍️ [Market] T-Mart: TDOV Community Flea Market
🗓: 29 Mar, 11am to 6pm
📍: Proud Spaces

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💬 [Discussion] Queer SAGA: A Sharing by Queer People at the AWARE SAGA
🗓: 18 Apr, 7pm to 9pm
📍: Proud Spaces
🔻
https://proudspaces.sg/events/queer-saga
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🏳️‍🌈 'A loud and proud representative in their queer Tamil identity' - Interview with Gayathiri Kamalakanthan
"I'm your grandchild, I'm not actually that different. Being queer or non binary is not actually that different at all."
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https://www.tamilguardian.com/index.php/content/loud-and-proud-representative-their-queer-tamil-identity-interview-gayathiri-kamalakanthan

🇯🇵 Japanese Supreme Court to consider marriage equality
Japan is the only G7 country that does not legally recognize same-sex couples.
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https://www.washingtonblade.com/2026/03/27/japanese-supreme-court-to-consider-marriage-equality

🇰🇷 Why Korea still lacks an antidiscrimination law
"Public opinion polling depends widely on how questions are framed."
🔻
https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2026-03-30/national/socialAffairs/Why-Korea-still-lacks-an-antidiscrimination-law/2556149

🇮🇳 India’s Transgender Rights Bill a Huge Setback
Instead of adopting a regressive law, the government should have broad consultations with transgender communities.
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https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/03/26/indias-transgender-rights-bill-a-huge-setback
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🏸 [Workout] Out in SG: Badminton
🗓: 5 Apr, 10am to 12pm
📍: TBA
🔻
https://www.facebook.com/events/s/oisg-badminton-weekly-social-d/1259161408909801

🎈 [Hangout] Kampung Kiki
🗓: 11 Apr, 2pm to 4pm
📍: Oogachaga
🔻
https://www.instagram.com/oogachaga/p/DWYqtc_DNPn

🎭 [Workshop] When Feelings Take Form
🗓: 12 Apr, 10am to 1pm
📍: Proud Spaces
🔻
https://proudspaces.sg/events/when-feelings-take-form

📓 [Workshop] Press to Pause Art Jam
🗓: 18 Apr, 2pm to 4pm
📍: Proud Spaces
🔻
https://proudspaces.sg/events/press-to-pause-art-jam
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🇰🇷 Genderless group XLOV opens a new chapter for K-pop
Industry observers say the group’s success is partly rooted in the relatively more open social attitude of the global market.
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https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/amp/entertainment/k-pop/20260401/genderless-group-xlov-opens-a-new-chapter-for-k-pop

🇯🇵 Calls for more variety as girls still bombarded with gender-coded pink products
"It would be wonderful if people could choose whatever colors they like without feeling constrained by gender."
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https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/03/31/japan/women-pink-stereotype

🇰🇷 South Korea’s first major LGBTQ art exhibition lets queer artists have their voices heard
Dedicated to exploring LGBTQ themes and celebrating queer artists, it is the first large-scale exhibition of its kind in South Korea.
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https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts/article/3348084/south-koreas-first-major-lgbtq-art-exhibition-lets-queer-artists-have-their-voices-heard

🇮🇳 India’s trans community thought invasive medical exams were a thing of the past. This law is set to bring them back
"The pain I suffered 30, 40 years ago... I do not want the new generation to face that."
🔻
https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/india/trans-bill-2026-passed-india-protests-b2945140.html
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👟 [Workout] Out in SG: Goes CDC South East Walking Trail
🗓: 11 Apr, 5.30pm
📍: TBA
🔻
https://www.facebook.com/events/s/oisg-goes-cdc-south-east-walki/1403896714844556

💬 [Discussion] Conversations That Matter
🗓: 18 Apr, 7pm onwards
📍: AFA Singapore
🔻
https://www.instagram.com/p/DWiNzpTk-Ef

📖 [Discussion] The Other Book Club: Taiwan Travelogue
🗓: 23 Apr, 7.30pm onwards
📍: TBA
🔻
https://www.instagram.com/theotherbookclubsg/p/DWkzzI0kzAB

💅🏻 [Party] Two Queens Asia: Pillow Princess Party
🗓: 25 Apr, 10pm onwards
📍: MDLR
🔻
https://www.instagram.com/p/DWjMn_MkQYS
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🏳️‍🌈 These 23 films about conversion therapy reveal its deeply emotional & long-reaching effects
Collectively, they examine its survivors and victims, the practitioners, as well as the allies and activists who seek to expose these programs and rescue those subjected to them.
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https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/03/these-23-films-about-conversion-therapy-reveal-its-deeply-emotional-long-reaching-effects

🇯🇵 Court revokes refugee status over false persecution claims
"The refugee recognition decision was based on false statements."
🔻
https://www.chosun.com/english/national-en/2026/04/05/VYKYXFPX7VBCJLENGTQXP3MFCI

🇮🇳 The man who became one of India's greatest stage queens
"The LGBTQ+ movement was young in India. Hungry for a queer history, it seemed to have seized on Chapal Bhaduri to be its fairy godmother."
🔻
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd0rl52z3dzo

🇭🇰 How Wong Kar-wai’s noir films inspire Nicole Eisenman’s Hong Kong view
"It was very much about me, my body and how I move through the world, being queer."
🔻
https://www.scmp.com/special-reports/article/3348600/how-wong-kar-wais-noir-films-inspire-nicole-eisenmans-hong-kong-view
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LGBTQ+ EVENTS:

📚 [Hangout] QueerNUS: Finals (S/Upper)
🗓: 10 Apr, 7pm to 9.30pm
📍: NUS
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https://www.instagram.com/p/DWu83imj8At

👟 [Workout] Out in SG: Sentosa Run & Beach
🗓: 11 Apr, 8am onwards
📍: TBA
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https://www.instagram.com/p/DWxTrqPE990

🕊️ [Service] Sunday Service
🗓: 12 Apr, 10.30am to 12pm
📍: Free Community Church
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https://freecomchurch.org/event/sunday-service-264

🌳 [Workshop] BOLD x QTSG: Meeting at the Tree of Life
🗓: 25 Apr, 10am to 4pm
📍: Proud Spaces
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https://proudspaces.sg/events/meeting-at-the-tree-of-life
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