This article considers how socio-political prescriptions can bring about the queering of futurity in Singapore. In Singapore, state-sponsored narratives of progress view futurity in terms that are bound to place, and reproduced through the heteronormative family unit. These factors have caused constructions of masculinity to be tethered to the family, and placed within public housing. Recently, this narrative has become an increasingly inflexible and marginalizing construct that can cause straight males to be queered by their prescribed futures. In contrast, gay males are more likely to be untethered from their families, and thus occupy “unplaced” positions in Singapore’s social structure.

本文考虑了社会政治处方如何在新加坡带来未来的酷儿。在新加坡，国家支持的进步叙事以必然存在的方式看待未来，并通过异性恋家庭单位复制。这些因素导致男性气质的建构被束缚在家庭中，并被置于公共住房中。最近，这种叙述已经成为一种越来越僵化和边缘化的结构，可能导致异性恋男性对其既定的未来感到奇怪。相比之下，男同性恋者更有可能不受家庭的束缚，因此在新加坡的社会结构中占据“空缺”的位置。