@article {2857,
	title = {Wear White: The mediatized politics of religious anti-LGBT activism in Singapore},
	journal = {Nordic journal of religion and society},
	year = {2018},
	abstract = {As a result of the perceived rise in LGBT visibility and acceptance in Singapore, a social media campaign started in 2014 called Wear White, which brought together both Muslim and Christian participants to counter the annual Pink Dot rally. This is Singapore{\textquoteright}s version of (gay) pride parades, which are held in major cities all across the world. This article aims to analyze this religious backlash against LGBT, paying attention to its {\textquotedblleft}media logic,{\textquotedblright} a term borrowed from the {\textquotedblleft}mediatization{\textquotedblright} literature, and presenting it as a framework to understand the politicization of religion in the context of the Singapore state. It asks: (1) What sorts of intellectual arguments and aesthetic techniques are deployed in Wear White{\textquoteright}s media discourse? (2) How does Wear White{\textquoteright}s media discourse balance its anti-LGBT message within the secular(ist) context of Singapore? (3) How does social media affect Wear White{\textquoteright}s message in its attempt to bring it to a larger audience? To this end, the article engages in a critical assessment of Wear White{\textquoteright}s media discourse of the campaign, including video logs (vlogs) and social media posts.
},
	url = {https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331996394_Wear_white_The_mediatized_politics_of_religious_anti-LGBT_activism_in_Singapore},
	author = {Han, Samuel}
}
