In 2003, then Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong dropped a bombshell. The Government, he said during an interview with Time magazine, had quietly lifted its restrictions on hiring gays, even for sensitive roles.
"In the past, if we know you're gay, we would not employ you. But we just changed this quietly," he said.
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