Notable Singaporean gay/lesbian couples

Dear editor,

The recent kidnap case shown us that love has no boundaries. The 2 kidnappers are a gay couple who lived together for the past 10 years. With such fidelity show to each other, they have put many hetero-couples to shame. I got curious and started a search to find out the better-known gay couples in Singapore.

1. Kidnappers Heng Cheng Boon & Lee Sze Yong. This not-so-dynamic duo was caught by police 12 hours after they kidnapped the mother of Sheng Siong's towkay. Heng, Lee and Lee's mother have been staying together in Hougang HDB for more than a decade. Heng treats the elder Lee like his own mother and neighbours also say they are very nice, polite and can be seen leaving the house and going home together. 

2. Gary Lim & Kenneth Chee, they are a gay couple who filed a legal challenge over Section 377A which criminalizes gay sex. They were represented by senior counsel Peter Low and Choo Zheng Xi and later Queen's Counsel Lord Peter Goldsmith. The court dismissed their case in Jul 2013. 

3. Wong Teck Siong & Teo Boon Leng. Wong was 28 years old when he died and his body was found floating in a trolley bag near Sentosa in 2011. Teo, 45 years old had hooked up with Wong online and Teo then invited him to his rented apartment at Keppel Bay Drive, where Mr Wong met Teo and Pee Weai Hong, 33, for the first time. The trio then engaged in sexual and drug activities. Teo and Pee had been in a relationship since 2004.

Teo was initially charge for murder but the courts later ruled Wong died from a drug overdose. Teo was jailed for 3 years in 2013 on six proceeded charges included disposing of Wong's body, allowing his premises to be used for drug-taking, dishonestly misappropriating Mr Wong's mobile phone, impersonating Mr Wong and failing to report a reportable death. Pee was also jailed for not reporting the death. 

4. Lin Shi Jia Sheena & Tan Kai Hiang (A lesbian couple from Singapore married in New York)

"Sheena (Shi Jia Sheena Ling) and Kai (Kai Hiang Tan), a lesbian couple from Singapore, were married on September 16, 2011, in Central Park, New York. Four friends of the bride and bride, three travelling from Singapore just for the occasion and a fourth a student at NYU, witnessed the marriage ...Rev. Stephen Parelli, clergy member of Metropolitan Community Church of New Yorkand member of The Riverside Church, New York, officiated. "

5. Vincent Wijeysingha & Jolovan Wham (Vincent is the politician from Singapore Democratic Party who stood in Holland-Bukit Timah GRC in GE 2011. Sources from the construction industry said that he and his boyfriend, a human rights activist have played significant role in rallying foreign workers to defy orders in the recent years.) Jolovan Wham was known to have instigated PRC workers from Panasonic to protest outside MOM and also offered money to whoever was willing to protest outside Singapore Embassy in Hong Kong. 

6. Dan & Don A Singaporean gay couple who became an overnight sensation for their debut in Japanese gay porn film. Who say Singapore don't have talents?

So Singaporeans please be open minded, gays are just like normal straight guys. They are capable of love, hate, fidelity, marriage, commitment, drugs, sex, crime, charity, and being porn stars. 

Thanks for publishing. 

Blowing your Wind (Invert the W)