Pink Dot 2011, an annual pink gathering in support of the freedom to love. This is the third Pink Dot to be held in Singapore. Pink Dot is an exciting one day activity hosted to show support for the GLBT community in Singapore which is often forgotten and rarely heard. It's a celebration of the ability to overcome obstacles and love without regard to gender and stereotypes and we're incredibly happy to have the opportunity to take part this year!
Google Singapore’s support of Pink Dot 2011 follows prior contributions by Asia's largest gay and lesbian network, Fridae.com, which provided funds as well as donated manpower to support the events’ branding, website and other related components, since Pink Dot's inception in 2009. That it is the only location where such an event can be held should remind us how far from satisfactory our human rights situation is in Singapore. There is, for example, no realistic way to do a Pride March down a major street like in so many other cities. Outside of Hong Lim Park, our right to freedom of assembly has been taken away. Our freedom of expression is abridged by all manner of censorship rules and to add insult to injury, the government keeps denying, blatantly, that there is censorship in Singapore.
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