A group of student and community activists at New York University have succeeded in opposing the temporary appointment to the faculty of a Singaporean academic who is an advocate for the continued criminalization of homosexuality in her home country. Dr. Thio Li-ann was to teach a course on human rights as a visiting professor at NYU’s School of Law in the fall. She chose to forgo the opportunity after students from the LGBT student group NYU OUTLaw circulated her anti-gay statements to their peers. In one statement, she said, “Diversity is not license for perversity.” In another, she likened gay sex to “shoving a straw up your nose to drink.”