AWARE had a new team of leaders, but who were they?
While the new team took its time to meet the media or issue a press release about themselves and their plans, some information about them surfaced.
It turned out that new president Josie Lau, vice-president Charlotte Wong, secretary Jenica Chua, treasurer Maureen Ong, assistant treasurer Sally Ang and committee member Irene Yee had something in common.
They all attended the Anglican Church of Our Saviour in Margaret Drive.
The church is known to take a strong stand on homosexuality, and describes this clearly on its website. It also believes homosexuals can be changed and runs a programme to help them return to heterosexuality.
It became known as well that Ms Lau's husband, Dr Alan Chin, was the nephew of senior lawyer Thio Su Mien, who also attends the same church.
Dr Thio's daughter is Nominated MP Thio Li-ann, who in 2007 spoke up firmly against the move to change Section 377A of the Penal Code, which makes sex between men illegal.
Aware's new team eventually issued a press release describing their academic and career background, but said nothing about their church connection.
Making their first public appearance on a TV programme, Ms Lau and Ms Ong said they attended the same church but had not known each other there.
More than five weeks after the Aware annual general meeting, four members of the new executive committee resigned: Mrs Claire Nazar; exco member Catherine Tan, who was Ms Nazar's former classmate; and old-guard representatives Chew I-Jin and Caris Lim.
Explaining why she resigned, Mrs Nazar told The Sunday Times that she could not bear the way the new team was going about its work, behaving like 'stormtroopers' in the Aware office.
At the extraordinary general meeting on Saturday, only seven of the 12 elected on March 28 showed up: all the six from the Church of Our Saviour and exco member Lois Ng. The remaining exco member, Ms Peggy Leong, did not show up.
This article was first published in The Straits Times.