LGBT
[Still under construction, but for one overview of Singapore's LGBT community, including organisations, see Roy Tan's comprehensive listing here. The knowledge architecture of this page is meant to facilitate sense-making in terms of understanding needs, assessing gaps and why they are there, and offer leads to possible solutions. Where there are existing repositories and resource directories, we need only to point towards them and act as an index. Where there are none, then it is useful to collate and catalogue.]
Contents
Overview
This overview provides a synopsis of the current knowledge base. Having considered all the information in the LGBTQ pages: 1) What are the priority issues that deserve attention, 2) What are opportunity areas that community or voluntary organisations can already take action on, and 3) What knowledge gaps deserve further investigation?
Priority Issues
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Actionable Opportunity Areas
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Knowledge Gaps
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Definitions
LGBTQ
[identify target group and define who is included or excluded in this category: you want to get it just right: not too broad that it includes those you may not want to include, and not too narrow that it excludes those you want to help. You might be too exclusive: e.g. defining ‘vulnerable’ seniors as ‘low-income’, but you may want to include those without family support. Therefore, you may want to define vulnerable as ‘poor and/or with low family support’. You might be too inclusive: e.g. ‘latchkey kids’ may include those who have working parents, or those with serious behavioural problems.]
To get an overview of terminology, see SAFE Singapore's glossary here
Key Statistics & Figures
Overview of Key Issues & Areas of Needs
Click the links below to go directly to specific areas of interest: [Not yet linked to the specific segments or pages]
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Social Inclusion
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Family Acceptance |
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Specific Sub-Pages
Areas of Needs / Desired Outcomes
[Read this first: guide on how to populate this section]
A need also implies that there is a desired outcome that has yet to be met. Describe the area of need (e.g. employer willingness to hire, work readiness etc). It is tempting to define needs in terms a specific solution—eg youths need mentoring, dying seniors need hospice care. But these are not needs, they are actually specific solutions to address those needs, which should be defined in more perennial terms. This is because the solutions can change but the needs generally remain largely stable. E.g. I don’t need a cassette tape player, CD player, or MP3 player, which are specific solutions to address my more perennial need, which is the need for portable music. Current solutions include streaming services like Spotify.
- Desired outcomes: It is important to articulate what the ideal or desired outcomes for this particular need area should be, otherwise it would be unclear what the gaps will be. The trick is to use adjectives to articulate a statement about what is the desired state of affairs. People with disabilities need viable jobs (that pays a living wage), or desirable careers (with progression and career development)? In terms of the example above: If the desire outcome is no longer portable music (because most solutions now are portable), then a different quality like 'searchable' or 'discoverable' music would set a new criteria for what is desired.
- Synopsis: Provide an analytic summary of the table below. The goal is to make sense of a lot of information, so at every segment, the tables and information collated seeks to be comprehensive; here at the start of each segment, we aspire to a good synoptic statement that captures the essential and highlights the pertinent.
- Where a single sentence or paragraph is not enough, you can insert sub bullet points like this.
- Here, you can indicate other critical info like the size of this specific need & projected demand were data is available].
| Resources & Programmes | Gaps & their Causes | Ideas on Solutions |
| List existing services or programmes (private or public; formal or informal); relevant policies and legislation as long as they are a resource or asset that helps meet the needs stated in this segment. | Some gaps could be due to 1) capacity of solution to meet size & projected demand, 2) quality of solution (effectiveness, efficiency, sustainability, scalability etc.), 3) accessibility (geographical, cost to client) | [Based on the specific gaps and reasons for those gaps, what might be solutions that can help? Insert existing but untapped resources, or new ideas that have not been considered yet] |
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Category A: Streaming services
- Spotify
- Pandora Radio
- Apple Music
Category B: Physical devices
- CD player
- MP3
- Turntables
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Resource Directory
If there are already good and constantly updated directories out there, we only have to create a hyper link to them
Informational Resources
Pelangi Pride Centre
- https://www.pelangipridecentre.org/
- A resource space and library for sexual minorities in Singapore, hosted by Free Community Church
SAFE Singapore
- http://safesingapore.blogspot.com/
- Information and resources to help friends, parents, and family members of LGBTQ persons understand their loved ones better; and to share experiences
- Started by parents, families and friends of LGBTQ
LGBTQ friendly Religious Groups
Free Community Church
- https://www.freecomchurch.org/
- [Clarification: mostly gay community?] "We have straight Christians in our midst too" https://www.freecomchurch.org/resources/faith-and-lgbtq-faq/