What is it like to be gay and experience bullying in school or National Service? How do you deal with being rejected by your family and religious group because of your sexual orientation? How are women's experiences different or similar to men's? What does one go through in an abusive same-sex relationship, or when one loses a partner to suicide? What does a transgender man or woman go through in Singapore? When you have been diagnosed with a life-long illness, how do you continue living?

This collection brings together real-life experiences of love, grace, faith, dignity and courage from 21 ordinary gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people in Singapore who have survived extraordinary circumstances.

We will live. We will thrive. We will survive.
Leow Yangfa is the editor of the book, I Will Survive, published by Math Paper Press in April 2013. Professionally trained as a social worker, Leow Yangfa spent most of my adult life involved in social services. In Singapore, he previously worked in a large statutory organisation and a suicide prevention agency, and volunteered with an HIV/ AIDS group. Overseas, he volunteered with a charity for the homeless in London. Since June 2013 (after the publication of the first print edition) he works full-time at Oogachaga, Singapore’s community-based, non-profit, professional organisation for LGBTQ+ individuals, couples and families.

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