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