Pearls Centre: gay aspects

Pearls Centre, which was built in 1977 and demolished in 2018, gained a reputation as a cruising haunt for the elderly segment of Singapore's gay community. Of course, not all the homosexual cruisers who visited the toilets, stairwells and upper levels of its car park were advanced in years. There were young gay men too who enjoyed the unpretentious and basic ambience of the place or who perhaps, were fond of mature men. Most were Chinese-educated as the building was located centrally in Chinatown but there were some Malays, Indians and other races as well who frequented the place. Although initially overwhelmingly local in patronage due to the fact that its cruisiness was not known overseas, after the massive influx of foreign workers into Singapore beginning in the early 1990s, many young, gay mainland Chinese workers ventured there.

=See also=
 * Pearls Centre
 * Public toilets in Singapore:gay aspects
 * Singapore gay venues: historical

=References=

=Acknowledgements=

This article was written by Roy Tan.