Review from Publisher’s Weekly:

The author, an actor in movies and TV, (including Ally McBeal, Arrested Development, and Better Off Ted), model, and gay rights advocate, writes that “playing the role of heterosexual while fantasizing about being a homosexual had been my reality since I was a child.” It’s one she played into her 20s, when she was for three years married to a man. Now, she is married to Ellen DeGeneres, whom she met in 2001 after recovering from anorexia and bulimia. De Rossi nicely chronicles the years in between, during which she starved herself to 80 pounds. She artfully draws the reader into the tension of a life lived in secrecy: did anybody notice she lunges rather than walks, the better to burn calories? will anyone guess she is gay? when she nearly fainted, was anyone around? While some details could be viewed as anorexia how-tos, they make it possible to comprehend the twisted logic of de Rossi’s frantic daily pursuits, and grasp the enormity of her achievement in overcoming her problems. The path de Rossi took to her happy ending is well worth reading about: her story is a cautionary tale, an inspiration, and a triumph.

See you on the 14 May!

The Free Community Church has generously offered to sponsor the space to host the Pelangi Pride Centre. However, Pelangi Pride Centre continues to operate independently.

The new address is:

56 Lorong 23 Geylang
Level 3 Century Technology Building

It is walking distance from the Aljunied MRT station. For detailed directions, please visit the FCC website

Please take note that the library hours is now 2pm-6pm, every Saturday.

We hope to see you at the new location!

Pelangi Pride Centre is moving out from our current address.

We will be closed between 26 Feb – 12 Mar for the move.

Please watch this space for our new address and opening date.

For those who have borrowed books from the library, please hold on to the books till we reopen. There will not be any fines during this period.

Thanks!

Unfortunately, our email to MDA has just been bounced back by the server.

We have resent the email but because we are unsure when MDA will respond to us, we have decided to cancel the screening instead of wasting everyone’s precious Saturday afternoon.

So sorry for the inconvenience caused.

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update – 11/01/11

Pelangi Pride Centre has received an email from the Media Development Authority (MDA) to request for the film to be sent for classification by the Board of Film Censors (BFC).

We have clarified that this is a private screening.

In the event that we are only to screen classified films, this Saturday’s (15/01/11) screening will be canceled.

Apologies for the inconvenience caused.

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PPC presents

Eye on Taiwan – The Rainbow Path by Discovery Channel

* note the film is in Mandarin. There is NO English subtitles.

Date: 15 January 2011 (Sat)

Time: 4.15pm

Venue: Pelangi Pride Centre

Cost per person: $8 (cost of 2 soft drinks and finger food)

RSVP: This event is by invitation only. As there are LIMITED seats, prior registration is required.

To get an invitation – please email [pelangipridecentre at yahoo dot com] with your name (in full), contact number, the name/s of your guests.

About the film:

In the early days, the Taiwanese have a mostly negative image of the gay community. Now, Taiwan hosts the largest Pride Parade in Asia each year,and among the mostly conservative Asian countries is considered most accepting towards gay people. However, there are still pressures and challenges for the gay people. A group of gay activists are working towards legalizing homosexual marriage in Taiwan and achieving equal rights for the gay people. What kind of challenges do they encounter on the Rainbow Path? Is Taiwan ready to accept the changes?

In this episode of Eye on Taiwan series, Discovery Channel explores the gay movement in Taiwan in recent years. In 2006, the “Gender Equity Education Act” and in 2007,the “Gender Equity Employment Act” was passed,thus ensuring some basic legal protection for the sexual minorities. Some gay people, having won over their parents’ acceptance, are fighting for greater acceptance from the society. It is a tough journey, but these people have chosen to fight on on the Rainbow Path.

聚焦台湾: 彩虹大道

早期台灣社會對同志的印象多是負面的，現今台灣每年舉辦亞洲最大的同志遊行，在保守的亞洲算是對同志接受度最高的國家。但同志仍要面對許多壓力，有一群同志運動人士正努力讓台灣成為下一個同志婚姻合法的國家，希望達到擁有與異性戀者相同權力的目標，到底在這條彩虹大道上他們會遇到甚麼樣的阻礙？台灣的社會準備好接受了嗎？

Discovery頻道聚焦台灣：彩虹大道將探討近年來台灣的同志現象。台灣在2006年通過「性別平等教育法」，2007年通過「性別工作平等法」，正式在法律上接納了性取向的基本保障；有些獲得父母認同的同志更積極爭取社會的認同。雖然過程艱辛，但這些人仍選擇在彩虹大道上繼續努力向前走。

8: THE MORMON PROPOSITION — A film screening

Date: 11 December 2010 (Sat)
Time: 4.15pm
Venue: Pelangi Pride Centre
Cost per person: $6 (cost of 2 soft drinks and finger food)

RSVP: This event is by invitation only.
As there are LIMITED seats, prior registration is required.

To get an invitation – please email [pelangipridecentre at yahoo dot com] with your name (in full), contact number, the name/s of your guests.

About the film:

8: THE MORMON PROPOSITION exposes the Mormon Church’s historic involvement in the promotion and passage of California’s Proposition 8 and the religion’s ongoing campaign against gay rights. The film takes place in California and Utah as Mormons, following their prophet’s call to action, wage spiritual warfare with money and misinformation against gay citizens, doing everything they can to deny them of marriage and the rights that come with it. “8: THE MORMON PROPOSITION” opens in theatres on June 18th, 2010, two years after the first gay marriages took place in California (June 17th, 2008). — (C) Official Site
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/8-the-mormon-proposition/

“Director Reed Cowan, who is a former Mormon missionary, “planned on making a film about gay teen homelessness and suicide in Utah, but switched his focus to Mormon ideology because of how it contributes to the homophobia that causes these problems”.[2] The film focuses on the immense wealth and power of the Mormon Church, and how the Church uses the National Organization for Marriage to advocate for denial of rights to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Americans. It points out that Mormon leader Thomas S. Monsonasked to ensure the passage of the controversial California Proposition 8. It also points out the fact that many homeless in Utah are LGBT teens who were abandoned by their Mormon parents.
According to the New York Times, the film “uncovers the classified church documents and the largely concealed money trail of Mormon contributions that paid for a high-powered campaign to pass Proposition 8″, noting that “Mormons raised an estimated $22 million for the cause.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8:_The_Mormon_Proposition#Synopsis

This freewheeling saga of the lives and loves of the unforgettable residents of San Francisco’s 28 Barbary Lane has been embraced by readers – and viewers – around the world, both gay, lesbian, bi, transgendered (GLBT) and straight. The books have sold millions of copies, and been translated into over a dozen languages; and the mini-series (three so far) have been seen by many millions more. Although all three of the adaptations are first-rate (Maupin was directly involved in their production), the original is a truly special work. Its inspired performances and filmmaking bring the novel gloriously to life, while creating a landmark work not only of television but of GLBT film.

Produced by Britain’s Channel 4 in 1993, this ground-breaking television miniseries created an uproar when it aired on PBS the following year. Adapted from Maupin’s first novel and starring Olympia Dukakis and Laura Linney, the drama shattered precedent by depicting the love lives of gay and straight characters alike. This provoked official condemnations from the legislatures of Georgia, South Carolina and Oklahoma-and a bomb threat at the PBS station in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
“Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City” received record-high ratings, Best Miniseries recognition from the National Board of Review, two major Emmy nominations and television’s most prestigious honor, the Peabody Award.

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Date: 13 November 2010 (Sat)
Time: 4.15pm
Venue: Pelangi Pride Centre
Cost per person: $6 (cost of 2 soft drinks and finger food)

RSVP: This event is by invitation only.
As there are LIMITED seats, prior registration is required.

To get an invitation – please email [pelangipridecentre at yahoo dot com] with your name (in full), contact number, the name/s of your guests.

Date: 9 October 2010 (Sat)
Time: 4pm
Venue: Pelangi Pride Centre
Cost per person: $6 (cost of 2 soft drinks and finger food)

RSVP: This event is by invitation only.
As there are LIMITED seats, prior registration is required.
To get an invitation – please email [pelangipridecentre at yahoo dot com] with your name (in full), contact number, the name/s of your guests.

The Lies of Liberty – documentary by the Mongolian LGBT Centre

The human rights of Mongolias sexuality minorities lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) persons are denied and violated every day. Existing in twilight between light and dark, unable to speak up, they are citizens of Mongolia. This documentary shows the inability of Mongolian LGBT people to exist, live and breathe in the same way as everyone else in the country, inability to receive the same protection of law as they are targeted for direct and indirect discrimination, violence and hate-inspired brutality, in a daily basis.

LGBT Centre is the first LGBT human rights organisation of Mongolia, established with five founders in February 2007, fighting for the official recognition of the organisation by the Government of Mongolia for nearly three years.

The official recognition as a non-governmental organisation was given to the organisation on 16 December 2009 after much international attention from all corners in the world, following which LGBT Centre initiated and implemented a number of activities, one of which was to make this documentary.

This documentary was made by LGBT Centre to disseminate information about the abysmal state of LGBT peoples human rights in Mongolia and is copyrighted.