Edited sentence: Headed by respected political commentator Alex Au, its success will be a bellwether as to how serious the Government's efforts at opening up really are.The last political taboo to be broken down in the relatively pruritan city state is the absorption of homosexuals into mainstream society.To this end, gay activist groups such as People Like Us, which is into its third incarnation as PLU3 after being rejected twice by the Registrar of Societies, are energetically interfacing with government bodies and the public to present a well balanced image of the gay community in an effort to combat entrenched stereotypes