Bugis Street

Bugis Street, sometimes referred to as Boogie Street, is a street in the area of Bugis (IPA: /ˈbʊɡɪs/; Kampong Bugis in Malay), but now located within the Bugis Junction shopping mall. Bugis Street was renowned internationally from the 1950s to the 1980s for its nightly gathering of transvestites and transsexuals, a phenomenon that made it one of Singapore's most notable attractions for foreign visitors at the time.

In the mid-1980s, Bugis Street underwent major urban redevelopment into a retail complex of modern shopping malls, restaurants, and nightspots mixed with regulated back-alley roadside vendors. Underground digging to construct the Bugis MRT station also caused the upheaval and termination of the nightly transgender gathering culture.

Today, the original Bugis Street is now a cobblestoned, relatively wide avenue sandwiched between the buildings of the Bugis Junction shopping complex. Another lane presently touted as "Bugis Street" by the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board is actually developed from New Bugis Street, formerly Albert Street, and is billed as "the largest street-shopping location in Singapore".