no cus i'm actually mad about this. speaking as an asian phannie (singaporean), anyone in SEAsia who's been watching everything that happens in TIT would know damn fucking well that it would not go well if dnp did the show in SEAsia.
i'm not saying he's right for leaving it at "government said no homo" but you know what i am saying? that he's a 100% correct. the problem IS that our governments not only say 'no homo', but also have painful religious laws and a very backwards older generation that is even less tolerant than those outside of asia.
in singapore, section 377a of our penal code, which made sex between two men (and by extension, people of the same sex) completely illegal. this part was repealed last year, but at the same time, our government essentially made a change to the definition of "marriage" in our constitution that 'locked' the definition of marriage as "a union between man and woman". this basically means that making changes to completely decriminalise being LGBT+ in the future is going to be much more difficult for us.
on TOP of all of this, singapore might not have a central/national religion, but that doesn't mean that the religious laws don't exist here. even if DNP managed to book a TIT show here, it wouldn't go through, solely because the sister daniel and father philip parts of the show would've been turned away by the religious boards here. similar cases have happened before, and it's not a stretch for me to say that it very well could happen with them too.
mind you, this is in singapore. i can't say much about hong kong, but i can safely make the statement that it'd be even more difficult in indonesia.
he shouldn't have left it at "govt. said no homo", but every non-asian phannie here who says that "no homo isn't the problem" is completely oblivious to things related to LGBT+ in asia and given the context now, SEAsia ESPECIALLY.
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