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Why Pink Dot is an important platform

I have never attended nor ever planned to attend Pink Dot, until recently.

I have never attended nor ever planned to attend Pink Dot, until recently.

Amendments to the laws to exclude foreigners and foreign companies from being involved, coupled with the Cineleisure advertisement issue, have made it untenable for me to stay at home. A wider value is at stake.

Personally I do not support lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues. I have friends who are openly gay and who are closet gays, and I have debates with them about their lifestyle choices, with which I disagree.

I support their right, however, to have a platform to voice and celebrate what matters to them and to have the respect they deserve for being who they want to be (“Put aside differences over LGBT issue”; June 28, online).

That is a value worth defending for the good of our country, so that our people can be a beacon for other countries and show how tolerance and inclusivity works in our society.

I am unsure how being gay has become a political cause, but I must find something pink, beyond my pink identity card, to wear when I attend Pink Dot this year.

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