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Roy Tan



Roy Tan is a healthcare professional passionately interested in documenting local LGBT history.

He has been one of the most active contributors of local LGBT-related news articles to the Singapore Gay News List (SiGNeL)[1] since the latter's formation. First Singapore LGBT articles on Wikipedia[edit]

Tan created the first Singapore LGBT-related Wikipedia article entitled "Singapore gay movement" on 12 April 2005. He subsequently started all the other articles on Singaporean LGBT culture there in the ensuing months.

In 2012, Tan searched for and managed to find websites such as the current one, Shoutwiki[5], as well as others like Wikia[6] which used the same wiki markup language as Wikipedia. He then transplanted all the SgWiki articles to these sites - easily accomplished by direct copying and pasting with no translation required.

Singapore LGBT video channels on YouTube[edit]

Tan has also recorded and amassed the most comprehensive collection of local LGBT videos on YouTube divided into 2 channels - "Homosexuality in Singapore"[7] and "Transgender people in Singapore"[8].

First outdoor LGBT speech in Singapore[edit]

Tan delivered Singapore's first open-air speech on an LGBT issue to an overwhelmingly straight audience at Hong Lim Park at 5:15pm on Saturday, 13 December 2008. He spoke, on the discrimination which gay Singaporeans faced at work. The event was organised by MARUAH and entitled, "Human Rights and Dignity of Workers". It marked the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which promotes the values of justice, fairness, equality and non-discrimination.

Registration of first LGBT pride parade and Pink Dot[edit]

Tan intended to organise Singapore's first gay pride parade at Hong Lim Park[9],[10][11],[12],[13],[14] in 2008 after the government legalised protests there. This later morphed into Pink Dot SG[15][16],[17],[18][19],[20], an event which supported the "freedom of LGBT people to love" and which later spread worldwide.

First gay Chingay contingent[edit]

Together with fellow citizen Tien Kim Chuan, Tan marched in Singapore's first and only gay Chingay contingent when the public were allowed to form their own marching group in 2010[21].




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