In this last episode of Season 2, Stuart reflects on a lifetime of being gay in Singapore and how a new generation of LGBTQ Singaporeans is stepping into the limelight. He talks about how Singaporean culture is generally more open than societies in the West and therefore not intrinsically prejudiced, and how it is important to build coalitions in order to bring about change. While no longer in the thick of it, Stuart continues to be engaged on the side lines, in the hope of building an more inclusive Singapore which involves not just queer people, but everyone who lives on the island.

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In this episode Stuart talks to us about discrimination in general and its relationship to the decriminalisation process and other legal change. He explains that the advocacy had had an effect, even if it was indirectly, and how confrontational politics does not work in Singapore. How does this affect the advocacy around workplace discrimination and marriage equality? First, however, he discusses what was the next big challenge: same sex parent adoption rights.

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At the turn of the century opportunities arose through which legal and constitutional challenges to Section 377A, the law which criminalized homosexuality, could be made. There was not much optimism that any of these would be successful. In this episode Stuart explains how he thinks parliamentary change works and how an oficial review of the Penal Code led to the galvanizing of the community through a petition process. It was also the start of a series of legal challenges to the law. At the same time what seemed like an organized movement awoke more conservative elements within society…

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The offices at fridae.com served as the venue where many of the initial ideas for Pink Dot coalesced. Stuart tells us more about these early meetings. Over its time, fridae.com faced many different challenges and Stuart learned much about how to run a business through all the difficulties. For personal reasons he needed to exit the company. In this episode he tells us why. He also reflects on the nature of LGBTQ activism in Singapore.

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We heard previously how the Nation Party began as a means of generating additional financial support for fridae.com. In 2001 the first event had proven to be such a success it spawned a succession of other parties throughout the year. It grew so large that it attracted participants from all walks of life as well as people from around Asia and beyond. It changed how people saw themselves, and allowed them to experience what it was like to be out and proud. Its eventual ban raised the stakes for the community. Stuart conjectures why this happened.

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In this episode, Stuart talks about setting up fridae.com, the background against which the idea for this web portal was formed, its role as a social enterprise and its timing with challenges like the Asian financial crisis and how it leveraged the rise of the internet. He discusses its importance as a way of creating a community when people were still fearful of reaching out to others like them.

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In many ways, Stuart Koe is an "OG" or Original Gay. As a change-maker, he had a front row seat at what was taking place in Singapore's LGBTQ community around the turn of the millennium, particularly with his leadership roles in Action for AIDS, fridae.com, the Nation Parties, the review of the Penal Code and even Pink Dot. In the next series of episodes of Semua Kita, Stuart tells us many of his stories and how the experiences shaped his perspective of life and activism in Singapore.

In this episode he answers the question, "Is Singapore a good place to be gay?" In his opinion, the biggest fear of coming out is parental disapproval rather than societal violence. He also talks about his not always positive experience in an elite school.

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June agreed to be interviewed by Semua Kita while at the ILGA Conference in Nepal in 2025. In this episode she talks about how her work in Singapore for the trans community has created opportunities like that for her to travel and meet other activists. She also discusses her philosophy that services provided to the transgender community should not be funded by the community, and explores the strategies she uses to minimize financial barriers to accessing counselling and other offerings.

Amidst the many LGBTQ non-profits in Singapore, June feels that, in some ways, the T Project is an outlier as it services those with lower socioeconomic status when compared to other charitable groups. In particular, this seems to be most pronounced in the ivory tower of academia. Here June discusses the importance of Intersectionality.

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