Coming Out
On 12 December 1998 during the First National AIDS Conference in Singapore, Chew became the first Singaporean AIDS patient to publicly declare his disease, but he was not the first aids patient in Singapore. The first was his colleague, a flight steward of mixed parentage. He declared himself bisexual but have yet to identify a woman who has slept with him. He expressed his impatience with others for not coming out with him. It's like the emperor is about to leave this world and he has all his subjects, the terracotta warriors to go with him.
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