The result was delete. Sandstein 10:56, 25 July 2020 (UTC)
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This article has been notability tagged for over a decade, but I can't honestly say it's not a notable subject. What this IS, however, is a polemic essay that's heavily involved in WP:NOR and WP:SYNTH violations and choked with editorializing, and it always has been. It's chock full of the editor/s assertions that this production or that constitutes "LGBT theater" because of particular theatrical styles where all roles are played by men, or because the star happens to be trans, or because the editor thinks such and such play "includes LGBT themes" and so on. There are many sources, but actually examining the sources turns up that they're mostly just reviews of the plays/films, from here or there in the world, and do not discuss their actual performance in Singapore by the theaters this article claims put the shows on.
It turns out there was, back in 2006, an AfD of a previous iteration of the article (Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Singapore gay theatre) where the nom put forth the following rationale: "Delete as unverifiable original research and indiscriminate. From WP:NOT: "Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information: Lists or repositories of loosely associated topics...". Also "Wikipedia is not a publisher of original thought: Critical reviews...Opinions on current affairs...". I'm not questioning the verifiability of the specific plays; if they're notable they should have their own articles. However, loosely associating them in this fashion is original research and the article is little more than one contributor's review of gay theatre in Singapore." The AfD closed as no consensus in one of the common garbage deletion decisions prevalent at the time, where the keep proponents stated that those plays existed and suchlike, and that time should be given for the article to improve.
That was fourteen years ago. It hasn't. Indeed, much of the text of this article is unchanged from then. There is absolutely room for a well-written article, based on reliable Singaporean sources, discussing this important subject. This isn't it. It never *has* been it, and it's rife for nothing beyond TNT. Ravenswing 01:52, 18 July 2020 (UTC)