ABSTRACT
This chapter draws attention to the double alienation that queers face. As Singaporean citizens, they suffer from an inability to identify with the nation called the “great affective divide.” While they appreciate the immense national wealth that the PAP created, that party’s heavy-handed style of governance inhibits identification with the larger country and nation. As queers, they are socially ostracized by Section 377A and the queer-unfriendly state policies that it justifies. Through the annual pride event called ‘Pink Dot,’ queers express their desire for national inclusion rather than remaining marginal to critique the state. Indeed, Pink Dot counters the conventional view within Queer Studies that queers always resist the hetero-patriarchal norm.
