Rascals Hotel

[Karlotta Neifert]

RascalsBoutique Kuta Lombok hotel is an adults-only hotel located near Kuta Beach. Complimentary parking is provided at the property, which offers a total of 22 guest rooms in a boutique-style accommodation. This hotel is also close to the Serenting and Torok Bare Beach and many other area beaches. Guests can find local shopping and dining near the property and airport transfer services are available for a fee.

The Rascals Boutique Kuta Lombok hotel offers a full-service spa with private treatment rooms and an array of spa services. There is also an outdoor pool and lounge area with loungers, umbrellas, and free pool cabanas that are available on a first-come, first serve basis. There is a restaurant and a bar at the hotel, along with a coffee shop. A full breakfast is available for a daily fee. The front desk offers limited-hour service and there is a safe deposit box for guest valuables.

Tours and ticket assistance are available. The hotel also offers guest laundry facilities and an ATM. This is a non-smoking property with designated outdoor smoking areas. There is also a garden and a terrace for guest enjoyment. Pets are not allowed at this hotel, which provides complimentary WiFi in all guest rooms and public areas. Guests can choose from standard double or twin rooms or a suite, as well as select standard rooms that feature a balcony. Rooms also include flat-screen TVs with premium channels, soundproofing, premium bedding, and a private bathroom with a shower.

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George Mortimer Pullman Jr and Walter Sanger Pullman were born on June 25, 1875, in the Gardner Hotel. The hotel had just opened a few years earlier in 1872 and was known for its grandeur. The twin boys were the third and fourth children of George and Harriet Pullman; joining their sisters, Florence born in 1868 and Harriet born in 1869.

In school this morning, Miss Silke, our drawing teach let us draw on our slate any figure we had a mind to make up, and I drew mine on paper after. I drew it on my slate, and gave it to her, hope she likes it.

These letters show two grade school children who were normal, mischievous boys growing up in the Gilded Age. They played games, went to parties and dances, and went to school. They do not appear to have any idea of how much money they were asking for. I often wonder what they could possibly spend it on. They have gentle and generous hearts when it comes to others, the library tickets are one example. There is no indication in any of their letters that their father agreed to their request. I have to believe he did, since he gave them most of their requests in which he said Yes.

Rascals was a discotheque located on the ground floor annexe of the Pan Pacific hotel in the Marina Bay area from the early to the mid-1990s. It held gay nights on Sundays and was patronised by a moderately large clientle. It was one of the roving Sunday night disco venues organised by the "Shadow management".

On Sunday, 30 May 1993, the disco was raided by several plainclothes police officers. Patrons without their identity cards were detained and brought to the police station, something which the police had no legal right to do. After a letter of complaint by a gay lawyer and some friends, the police apologised - a hitherto unheard-of result.

Ong was very shocked but not entirely surprised as there had been whispers among different pockets of his friends that the police were raiding certain establishments which catered to a gay clientele. However, this was the first time it had happened to him. So, when the lights came back on suddenly and a plainclothes police officer climbed onto the dance podium with megaphone in hand, subsequently barking orders after the music was abruptly stopped, he gathered his thoughts because he felt that in situations like this, one had to be level headed. The overriding emotion he felt was indignation. He asked himself what did they do wrong? Fair enough, the intruding men did identify themselves as the police, but still, what was the offence committed? Ong was fresh out of law school overseas so his legal thought processes kicked in. He was trying to figure out why they were being treated like this because the policemen were being very rude. Some seasoned gay disco regulars were astonished to behold the surreal scene in which the cops were executing the operation with such energetic, self-righteous conviction unlike their usual attitude during other raids where they appeared to be just going through the motion. The police squad's inappropriate behaviour provoked him into doing something.

So, while the patrons were being rounded up, Ong tried to locate his friends and mobilise them at the same time to approach the officer in charge. They were not successful as it was mayhem. By then, some people had been corralled into different corners because they did not have their National Registration Identity Cards (NRIC) with them. Ong, being a law-abiding citizen, always carried his IC on him, not because the it was a legal requirement but out of habit.

Some patrons booed loudly at the police officers. One of the undercover policemen was wearing a fishnet T-shirt. The younger gay men were too afraid to jeer as some were still in the army, doing National Service. The older men had less fear. They heckled with gusto when a police officer asked some rudely with raised voices if they were men or women! After booing, they promptly "acted blur" (Singlish for "acted stupid") to avoid being singled out.

The officers divided Rascals patrons into those who carried identification documents on them and those who did not. Each group was made to stand outside the disco in a queue to have their ICs checked by a policeman behind a table.

Many hung their heads in shame and worried how the police record would affect their future. Kaan Sheung Kin, a dentist and Action for AIDS (AfA) volunteer, and Otto Fong, a comic artist and former Raffles Institution science teacher, both openly gay, happened to be there that night and witnessed the debacle. (AfA was doing a HIV outreach programme because it knew that a lot of gay men were cottaging there that night and that there were undercover cops around. It was only the second time that volunteers were conducting such an event at Rascals. Prior to that, they had held similar sessions at other gay venues and later also conducted one at The Substation. Ong, himself a pioneer AfA volunteer, was handing out leaflets as a community service to the gay disco goers advising them of their legal rights and a checklist of what to do in case they were apprehended by the police.)

The police set up tables and made people line up to take down their particulars. The checking of NRICs and interviewing of each individual one by one was a lengthy process and at least one gay patron took advantage of the opportunity to stealthily slip away.

Another straight-acting ethnic Indian gay Singaporean, who had made it a habit not to send out gay vibes and who put on what he described as an F.O.A.D. (fuck off and die!) look, was visiting Rascals for the very first time. He had his IC taken by an officer and was asked to follow him away from the crowd. They went outside the disco where he was asked if he knew what kind of club it was. The patron's self-protective instinct kicked in and he replied that he was unaware of the fact. He had just been told it was a happening party and that he usually went to Zouk. The policeman then informed him that it was a gay club and that he should not go there. The man realised that the cop had mistaken him for a heterosexual who had stumbled into the place by accident. The officer returned his IC and told him to leave and not come back. The outwardly macho gay man walked across the road and waited an inordinately long time for a friend he went with to come out. From then onwards, he never stepped into a gay disco until years later when he went to Music World at Katong Shopping Centre in the late 1990s.

As lawyer Wilfred Ong was carrying his identity card, he was allowed to leave the club. However, his flatmate did not have any identification on him and was detained. Ong's most pressing task was to extricate his friend from the fiasco. The patrons who were not carrying their ICs were herded off to Beach Road Police Station where some actually had to spend the night in a lock up.

On 13 July 2021, drag queen Victoria Wondersnatch uploaded to YouTube a video interview with lawyer Wilfred Ong and dentist Kaan Sheung Kin who provided greater insights into what happened there that night[1]. It was a pleasant surprise to see Ong agreeing to be interviewed publicly after maintaining relative anonymity for almost three decades, probably so as not to affect his career, and appearing hardly to have aged at all over this period[2].

He solicited the help of a few people to back him up by co-signing the letter and was disappointed when only a handful of them were willing to put their names down. This was because it would be literally affixing their names in opposition to something the police had done. The senior lawyers he approached refused to co-sign the letter. After much effort and persuasion, he finally managed to collect 21 signatures from among Rascals patrons, including one from Kaan Sheung Kin, and many members from Singapore's pioneering LGBT rights advocacy group People Like US, and submitted the letter to the police and the Ministry of Home Affairs. Looking back, Kaan felt that his willingness to commit his name stemmed from the fact that he was still young and naive but partly also because he had just returned home after completing a Master's degree overseas so he was very galvanised and civic-minded. Moreover, it simply felt that this was the right thing to do.

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