Terence Soon is a Singapore Airlines pilot and a member of the Progress Singapore Party (PSP).
During the 2020 General Elections, while most candidates and political parties took to live streams and pre-recorded videos to share their plans for their constituencies and Singapore, Soon took a different approach which appealed to the younger generation - an Ask Me Anything (AMA) session on Instagram[1] on Sunday night, 5 July 2020[2].
Fielding 50 odd-questions over a one-and-half-hour period, he covered a wide range of topics including parenting advice, his Tanjong Pagar GRC’s team and whether he would still be taking to the skies as a pilot if elected. When asked: "What is your stand on LGBT issues and 377A?", he replied:
"This is a rather complicated subject, and I'd like to discuss in further detail. But in short, the party stance is that we would like to repeal the criminal aspect of 377A, and we respect the rights of all LGBTQ people in the country."
However, when some members of the LGBT community took a look at Soon's Instagram stories the following day, they could no longer find the above screenshot of this particular question and answer. The conclusion was that he deleted it as the other answers from the night before were still there.
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This article was written by Roy Tan.