Sgapore to Decrimalize Gay Sex | Human Rights Watch

Contents:

• HOMOSEXUALY TO BE LEGAL IN SGAPORE, BUT GAY MARRIAGE WILL HAVE TO WA
• SGAPORE’S GAY SEX LAW TO BE REPEALED: PM LEE, LGBT GROUPS ‘RELIEVED’
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• SGAPORE TO DECRIMALIZE GAY SEX
• SGAPORE UPHOLDS COLONIAL ANTI-GAY LAWS: BEG GAY REMAS ILLEGAL FOR 5.7 MILLN PEOPLE
• SGAPORE SEX-BAN REPEAL COM WH HURDLE FOR GAY MARRIAGE
• FOR SGAPORE’S GAY MEN, REPEAL OF SEX BAN BRGS HOPE AFTER YEARS OF PA
• SGAPORE’S LATT RULG ON GAY SEX IS ‘COLD COMFORT,’ ACTIVISTS SAY

HOMOSEXUALY TO BE LEGAL IN SGAPORE, BUT GAY MARRIAGE WILL HAVE TO WA

Sgapore’s Prime Mister Lee Hsien Loong on Sunday said the untry will repeal the lonial-era Sectn 377A of Sgapore’s Penal Co, thereby crimalizg gay sex Sgapore, but add that same-sex marriage will ntue to be illegal the cy-state. This will brg the law to le wh current social mor, and I hope, provi some relief to gay Sgaporeans, ” said the Prime Mister. “Like every human society, we also have gay people our midst.

SGAPORE’S GAY SEX LAW TO BE REPEALED: PM LEE, LGBT GROUPS ‘RELIEVED’

It punish gay sex – even if is nsensual, between adults, and tak place privately – for up to two years of imprisonment. In Febary 2022, Sgapore’s Court of Appeal led that the sectn would rema the law, but nnot be enforced to prosecute men for havg gay sex.

Lee said: “We need to fd the right way to rencile and acmodate both the tradnal mor of our society, and the aspiratn of gay Sgaporeans to be rpected and accepted. In June, Thailand edged closer to beg the first place Southeast Asia to legalize same-sex unns when lawmakers passed four different bills aimg to provi greater rights to gay upl, such as the abily to adopt children and manage assets jotly. After years of bate, Sgapore is set to abolish the lonial-era 377A law that bans gay sex.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

The move will effectively make homosexualy legal the cy-state. This effectively means approval to gay marriage is led out for now. Lee also said Sgaporean society, pecially the young, were more acceptg of gay people now, and that scrappg 377A would brg the laws le wh "current social mor, and I hope, provi some relief to gay Sgaporeans".

"This will brg the law to le wh current social mor and I hope provi some relief to gay Sgaporeans.

But gay men say the law hangs over their heads and discrimat agast them. Lee said he hop the ernment's move will help rencile and acmodate both the ncerns of nservative relig groups and the sir of gay Sgaporeans to be rpected and accepted. " One of Lee's nephews, Li Huanwu, is gay.

SGAPORE TO DECRIMALIZE GAY SEX

In 2018, India crimalized gay sex after s Supreme Court a historic lg stck down Sectn 377 that punished gay sex by up to 10 years prison.

Some Asian untri have also moved to legalize gay marriage, wh Taiwan as the first 2019. When Sgapore announced this week would end a lonial-era law that crimalized sex between men, looked like a big victory for gay rights advot the Southeast Asian untry. That’s bee as put an end to that law, the Sgapore ernment reerated s opposn to gay marriage.

SGAPORE UPHOLDS COLONIAL ANTI-GAY LAWS: BEG GAY REMAS ILLEGAL FOR 5.7 MILLN PEOPLE

Soon after announcg that nsensual gay sex would no longer be illegal, Prime Mister Lee Hsien Loong said his annual Augt rally speech that his ernment would “uphold and safeguard the stutn of marriage” – fed the Constutn as a unn between man and woman. At the same time, the cy-state is home to var evangelil mega church that preach agast homosexualy.

Lee noted his speech that gay rights remas “a highly sensive and ntent” issue to nservativ the untry. To gay rights activists, the ntug ban on same-sex marriage is a signifint blow.

So while activists the LGBTQ (Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer) muny weled the repeal of the gay sex law, many were disappoted too. And that disappotment will only have epened wh the suggtn by some of Lee’s misters that not only would the ernment rema opposed to gay marriage – may even create extra hurdl to prevent people om seekg to challenge the marriage laws urt. Law mister K Shanmugam said an terview wh state media that Parliament, rather than the urts, would hold the power to fe marriage – effectively makg harr for people to legally challenge the ernment’s polici as several gay men have attempted recent years.

SGAPORE SEX-BAN REPEAL COM WH HURDLE FOR GAY MARRIAGE

As associate law profsor Eugene Tan of the Sgapore Management Universy put : “Sgapore removed a law long regard as beg discrimatory towards gay men. In 2012, Gary Lim and Kenh Chee, a gay uple who had been together for 15 years, challenged the law agast gay sex at Sgapore’s High Court.

“For , repealg (the gay sex law) was never about gay marriage,” the uple said.

FOR SGAPORE’S GAY MEN, REPEAL OF SEX BAN BRGS HOPE AFTER YEARS OF PA

“I hope that the nservativ n one day see gay people are not dangero or a threat to them or their children.

LGBT groups utly rejoiced victory to last night’s announcement that gay sex will no longer be a crime Sgapore. After a long, ted journey, opponents of Sgapore’s problematic gay sex law said a jot statement that while repeal was “long overdue, ” was still a “signifint tone. “This will brg the law to le wh current social mor, and I hope provi some relief to gay Sgaporeans.

SGAPORE’S LATT RULG ON GAY SEX IS ‘COLD COMFORT,’ ACTIVISTS SAY

The future of Sgapore’s gay sex law: Will we see s end?

-based profsnal league to e out as gay.

Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted when the then-St. Sectn 377A has a legacy of drivg stigma and discrimatn agast lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people Sgapore. In a parliamentary bate on sectn 377A 2007, Lee acknowledged that “Homosexuals are part of our society.