Draft:Rascals incident
The Rascals incident was a police raid on the Rascals disco on Beach Road, Singapore on 30 May 1993 during its weekly gay night event.
Incident[edit]
Legacy[edit]
According to Professor of Law Lynette J. Chua, some "hail Rascals as Singapore's Stonewall, crediting the raid for galvanizing a fledgeling gay movement that was quietly taking shape in the early 1990s in Singapore."[6]
References[edit]
- ^ https://www.google.com.sg/books/edition/A_History_of_Human_Rights_Society_in_Sin/VCAlDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Rascals+Raid&pg=PA153&printsec=frontcover
- ^ https://www.google.com.sg/books/edition/Worldwide_Perspectives_on_Lesbians_Gays/oRnOEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Rascals+gay+beach+road&pg=RA2-PT555&printsec=frontcover
- ^ https://www.google.com.sg/books/edition/Criminal_Legalities_in_the_Global_South/OKKqDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Rascals+gay+beach+road&pg=PT37&printsec=frontcover
- ^ https://www.google.com.sg/books/edition/Imagining_Gay_Paradise/vNGVruPWtr4C?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Rascals+gay+beach+road&pg=PA188&printsec=frontcover
- ^ https://www.google.com.sg/books/edition/Gays_and_Lesbians_in_Asia_and_the_Pacifi/edVjxMIwtD0C?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Rascals+gay+singapore&pg=PA16&printsec=frontcover
- ^ https://www.google.com.sg/books/edition/Mobilizing_Gay_Singapore/gNh1BgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Rascals+Raid&pg=PA3&printsec=frontcover
- ^ https://www.google.com.sg/books/edition/Gay_and_Lesbian_Asia/1RzcAAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Rascals+gay+singapore&pg=PA86&printsec=frontcover