(Falling for your) Straight Best Friend : a new queer web series from Singapore

Sean Foo, one of the out queer actors in the series, called falling for your straight best friend “one of the oldest clichés in the gay book” but also “one of the most torturous things that can ever happen to a gay person” — something that could certainly make for rich on-screen drama.

There are plenty of gay men reading this who will now be nodding ” been there, done that” and as Foo added, the second you fall for your straight best friend, “we start to overthink every single thing they’ve said” to justify our fantasy.

What is equally interesting is that Singapore was once a British colony and as such had a law imposed on them in 1938 that made homosexuality illegal, and which was only repealed last year.  Even then the ultra-conservative government immediately amended its constitution to prevent courts from legalizing same-sex marriage. 

The producers are DEAR STRAIGHT PEOPLE  who are Asia’s leading online LGBTQ+ publication based in Singapore that reaches over 1 million people a month on average across various platforms. They have expressed the hope that the series could present an opportunity to introduce more Singaporeans to queer lives and the urgency to protect them with civil rights.