ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on evangelicalism in Singapore and its direct contestation with the gay movement of this island city-state. The roots of Singapore evangelicalism can be traced back to the 1950s and to the Bible Presbytarian Church, modeled after the fundamentalist sect of the same name in the US. The typically top-down government has been cautious about the political clout of evangelicalism in Singapore. The continued criminalizing of consensual same-sex acts between adults allows for outrageous remarks made by evangelical pastors who conduct public testimonials. Lesbianism and homosexuality simply mean death, barrenness. A homosexual or a lesbian relationship wont last for long. Law and the religious right distance the gay community from the heterosexual population in Singapore in a totalizing manner. The chapter concludes with the proposal of art to counter the abyss threatening the gay movement in Singapore, an abyss which has been heightened today by radical evangelicalism and a continuing authoritarian patriarchal government.
