A Singaporean Facebook user, Rachel Tan Shiying, recently started an online bookshop on Carousell that caters to the LGBT community. Named "the queer bookstore", it hopes to give more representation to the gender queer, homosexuals, bisexuals, etc in Singapore.
She said: "Books literally saved my life. The bookstore exists to help others like me. I'm creating an online queer bookstore in Singapore so that I can save up some cash before setting up a brick-and-mortar for real."
The Carousell page has 19 listings which stocks books in both English and Chinese.
Unfortunately, even if she saves up enough for an actual shop next time, do you think our elite, efficient authorities will approve of it? Will The Queer Bookstore see the light at the end of the tunnel? For now, it's not a lot, but it's a start. A good start.
