Two gay rights ads promoting Singapore’s Pink Dot day this Saturday have surfaced on the Web, and they’re moving, eye opening and worth sharing. You don’t have to be gay to appreciate this, and in a country (South Africa) where gay marriage is legal (albeit in my opinion still not widely accepted) we often forget that other countries don’t have it so lucky!Hopefully this excellent campaign goes a long way to attract awareness and positive change not only in Singapore, where sex between two men carries a two-year jail sentence, but also across the globe where narrow-mindedness sadly still prevails amongst society.ViaShareThis

From the make-or-break election rallies in the early 1960s to crowds of investors angry over mini-bonds that lost all their value late last year, Hong Lim Park has been the site of history being made. Typically, those were tension-filled moments, with perhaps the high point reached when, in an unplanned way, Singapore Democratic Party leaders and the police locked horns in a four-day stand-off in 2006. Time to do something different. Come the 16th of May 2009, Saturday, at 4:30 pm, Hong Lim will witness another first -- and this time, there'll be no long speeches, no emotions running high. Just fun. All Singaporeans who believe in non-discrimination and inclusiveness are invited to join in to make a pink dot. Yawning Bread