People Like Us (PLU), is the première Singapore advocacy group for gay equality. Having been twice rejected by the government board which approves or prohibits organisations, the Registrar of Societies, it is now in its third incarnation as "PLU3". The term "PLU" has also gradually become slang for "homosexual" amongst members of Singapore's gay subculture. People Like Us is a British comedy programme, a spoof on-location documentary (or mockumentary) written by John Morton, and starring Chris Langham as Roy Mallard, an inept interviewer. ... PLU can stand for: People Like Us, a British mockumentary People Like Us, the pseudonym of British musician Vicki Bennett: see People Like Us (musician) Pacific Lutheran University the SIL code, a language code, for the Palauan language Price Look-Up numbers used to identify produce This is a disambiguation... The gay rights movement is a collection of loosely aligned civil rights groups, human rights groups, support groups and political activists seeking acceptance, tolerance and equality for non-heterosexual, (homosexual, bisexual), and transgender people - despite the fact that it is typically referred to as the gay rights movement, members also... PLU can stand for: People Like Us, a British mockumentary People Like Us, the pseudonym of British musician Vicki Bennett: see People Like Us (musician) Pacific Lutheran University the SIL code, a language code, for the Palauan language Price Look-Up numbers used to identify produce This is a disambiguation... Slang is the non-standard use of words in a language of a particular social group, and sometimes the creation of new words or importation of words from another language. ... Look up gay in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Until several decades ago, the word gay meant something like jolly or mirthful. In contemporary usage, however, that meaning is unusual; the term is usually synonymous with homosexual. ...

See also

• Singapore gay movement
• Singapore gay terminology

The homosexual community in Singapore, like many other gay communities in the modern developing world, faces discrimination from both Singapores culture and laws in that it is subjected to stigma and potential prosecution even for private, adult, consensual sex. ... The following list consists of formally accepted words, as well as slang, in Singapores four official and other minority languages, used to refer to LGBT people. ...

External Link

• PLU's website