Yes, Singapore still hasn't repealed Section 377A of the Penal Code.

Yes, Singapore still doesn't allow people of the same gender to get married legally.

Nonetheless, whichever your inclination, local thespian Ivan Heng and his husband Tony Trickett are known islandwide to be married — albeit in London — and as the two people at the highest level of management in Singaporean theatre company W!LD RICE (with Heng as artistic director and Trickett as executive director), they are also among the most prominent of couples in Singapore's arts scene.

Naturally, of course, they would be among the first to be contacted for a story about power couples in Singaporean arts, right?

According to a Facebook post from Heng on Saturday evening, this was indeed the case, with TODAY arts correspondent Mayo Martin reaching out to him and Trickett some time ago to answer some questions for the Valentine's Day special published on Feb. 13.

The resulting piece, however, carried zero mention of Heng or Trickett:

Of course, this should not be to the discredit of any of the three couples that were eventually featured in the story at all — they are all important contributors to Singapore's blossoming arts scene, much as a non-arts-afficionado might choose to ignore it.

Fact is, though, the injustice is hard to ignore here. In this particular case, it looks like the journalist, Mayo Martin, did break the bad news to Heng before his story went to print and online, but it doesn't make it much easier to swallow.