Non‑fiction
Gay is OK! A Christian Perspective (2013-2022)
Gay is OK! A Christian Perspective (2013-2022) is a non‑fiction by Boon Lin Ngeo. Banned for attempting to promote homosexual culture in Malaysia, which goes against religious and cultural sensitivities in the country.
Description
About the work
Gay is OK! A Christian Perspective (2013-2022) is a non‑fiction by Boon Lin Ngeo. Banned for attempting to promote homosexual culture in Malaysia, which goes against religious and cultural sensitivities in the country.
Its interest lies partly in the way literary or informational writing gets collapsed into a public-morality problem. As a non‑fiction, it can be read not only for subject matter but for the way form, tone, and circulation make a text feel dangerous, intimate, or politically usable to anxious officials.
It also matters as part of a wider censorship history in Malaysia. The present page is a dossier starter built from source-tracked ban records; the surviving note currently says: Banned for attempting to promote homosexual culture in Malaysia, which goes against religious and cultural sensitivities in the country. In 2022, the ban was challenged through a judicial review petition in High Court. More publication history, translations, and close reading can be added later.
Overview
Why it was banned
Gay is OK! A Christian Perspective (2013-2022) entered censorship debates as a non‑fiction associated with morality, print scandal, and sexuality. In the current dossier, the main state objections cluster around obscenity and public morality.
The earliest event currently captured here is Date not yet pinned down in Malaysia, where Malaysia authorities banned publication or circulation. Banned for attempting to promote homosexual culture in Malaysia, which goes against religious and cultural sensitivities in the country. In 2022, the ban was challenged through a judicial review petition in High Court. Banned for attempting to promote homosexual culture in Malaysia, which goes against religious and cultural sensitivities in the country. In 2022, the ban was challenged through a judicial review petition in High Court of Kuala Lumpur. The court quashed the.
This entry is still incomplete: more jurisdictions, court orders, and translated justifications should be added over time.
This page is intentionally incomplete. The ban history is a starter dataset, not a final census of every jurisdiction or decree.
Counter and critical readings
Context, rebuttals, and criticism
- Banned Books: Literature Suppressed on Sexual Grounds Dawn B. Sova
Surveys the legal and moral language used to suppress books as obscene.
- Banned Books: 387 B.C. to 1978 A.D. Anne Lyon Haight
Useful for seeing how obscenity law and censorship habits changed over time.
- 100 Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature Nicholas J. Karolides, Margaret Bald, and Dawn B. Sova
A compact reference on how censorship systems moved across states, churches, and courts.
Ban history
Known government actions
| Date | Jurisdiction | Action | Reason | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date not yet pinned down | Malaysia | banned publication or circulation | Banned for attempting to promote homosexual culture in Malaysia, which goes against religious and cultural sensitivities in the country. In 2022, the ban was challenged through a judicial review petition in High Court. | Banned for attempting to promote homosexual culture in Malaysia, which goes against religious and cultural sensitivities in the country. In 2022, the ban was challenged through a judicial review petition in High Court of Kuala Lumpur. The court quashed the. |
Sources
Harvested references for this page
- Wikipedia: List of books banned by governments reference partial
- Wikipedia REST summary API database partial
- Banned Books: Literature Suppressed on Sexual Grounds book partial
- Banned Books: 387 B.C. to 1978 A.D. book partial
- 100 Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature book partial