Pelangi Pride Centre



Pelangi Pride Centre is both an organisation as well as a physical space where LGBTQ people can come together to read, borrow books, for social support or to attend talks. Regular events are usually run on the 2nd Saturday of the month. It operates Singapore's first and only LGBTQ resource centre and library which opens every Saturday from 2-6pm. Its collection includes local and international gay literature as well as non-fiction books whose catalogue can be searched online on its website. It also has an archive of artifacts pertaining to Singapore gay history and culture. It is located at 56 Lorong 23, Geylang, Level 3, Century Technology Building, Singapore 388381 (within the Free Community Church itself).

Set up by activists to inculcate pride in being gay and in staying HIV-negative, it initially commenced operations at 22A Rowell Road, above the AFA headquarters, in the Serangoon or Little India area. It held its opening party on Saturday, 6 December 2003 from 6pm to 9pm in its premises at Rowell Road. The event featured live tribal drumming & flame throwing, food and drink, music, a film screening as well as safer-sex demonstrations. Opening hours of the resource centre during the early years were on Wednesdays from 7pm to 9pm and on Saturdays from 3pm to 7pm. It underwent many location changes since it opened it doors at Rowell Road. These included Bianco, one floor above Mox Bar & Cafe at 21 Tanjong Pagar Road, #04-01, Singapore 088444, in a member of the gay community's home also along Rowell Road near The Post Museum and in both locations of DYMK, at Kreta Ayer Road and Neil Road.

=External links and references=


 * The Pelangi Pride Centre website:.
 * Pelangi Pride Centre on Twitter:.
 * Pelangi Pride Centre on Facebook:.
 * Review of Pelangi Pride Centre's launch at its first location at 22A Rowell Road on Saturday, 6 December 2003 by Roy Tan on SiGNeL:.
 * Review of Pelangi Pride Centre's opening at Mox Bar on Saturday, 6 May 2006 by Roy Tan on SiGNeL:, see video:.