Lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people Sat Vcent and the Grenad face bias-motivated vlence and discrimatn their daily life, Human Rights Watch said a report released today. The legislature should repeal the untry’s lonial-era laws that crimalize nsensual same-sex nduct and pass prehensive civil legislatn prohibg discrimatn based on sexual orientatn and genr inty. The 58-page report, “‘They Can Harass Us Bee of the Laws’: Vlence and Discrimatn agast LGBT People Sat Vcent and the Grenad,” expos the physil and verbal asslts, fay vlence, homelsns, workplace harassment, bullyg, and sexual vlence that sexual and genr mori face unr the shadow of discrimatory laws. Those rponsible for mistreatment clu people close to LGBT people – fay members, neighbors, workers, classmat, and teachers – as well as strangers and police officers.
Contents:
- SGAPORE TO DECRIMALIZE GAY SEX
- SGAPORE REPEALS GAY SEX BAN BUT LIMS PROSPECT OF LEGALISG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
- SGAPORE TO CRIMALISE GAY SEX, SAYS PRIME MISTER
- SGAPORE TO END LONIAL-ERA BAN ON GAY SEX AFTER YEARS OF BATE
- SGAPORE PASS LAWS TO CRIMALISE GAY SEX, PROTECT FN OF MARRIAGE AGAST LEGAL CHALLENGE
- SGAPORE PARLIAMENT REPEALS GAY SEX BAN BUT LIMS PROSPECT OF LEGALISG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
- SGAPORE WILL CRIMALIZE GAY SEX, BUT NTUE TO PROHIB SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
SGAPORE TO DECRIMALIZE GAY SEX
Lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people Sat Vcent and the Grenad face bias-motivated vlence and discrimatn their daily life. The thori should repeal the untry’s lonial-era laws that crimalize nsensual same-sex nduct and pass prehensive civil legislatn prohibg discrimatn based on sexual orientatn and genr inty. * singapore decriminalise lgbt *
[/ref] This activism did not achieve crimalisatn, but did succeed elicg ernmental and judicial posns on homosexualy, clarifyg the challeng that lie ahead for queer activism Sgapore.
SGAPORE REPEALS GAY SEX BAN BUT LIMS PROSPECT OF LEGALISG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
* singapore decriminalise lgbt *
Dpe ernmental statements that Sectn 377A is not “actively” enforced, the prent legal transigence over crimalisg homosexualy more broadly reflects polil reluctance to protect mori, on the supposed basis of ferrg to nservative majorarian will. Sectn 377A is also not limed to public or non-nsensual acts, meang that extends to private, nsensual male homosexual relatns. Sce the mid-1990s, there has been ltle active policg of same-sex sexual relatns, though police raids of gay venu still occur where illegal dg e is spected to be volved.
In the past, when the police ed to entrap gay men at cisg s, they would ually brg charg unr Sectn 354 of the Penal Co, for “outrage [of] mosty” of the unrver officer. No equivalent of sectns 377 or 377A exists agast female homosexualy.
SGAPORE TO CRIMALISE GAY SEX, SAYS PRIME MISTER
However, the social and polil impact of the crimalisatn of male homosexualy by virtue of Sectns 377A and (until 2007) 377 go beyond legal sanctns. The sectn have been ed to jtify the nial of legal stat to a queer rights group, the banng of media broadst ntent that “promot, ” “jtifi” or “glamoris” “liftyl such as homosexualy, lbianism, bisexualism, transsexualism [and] transvtism, ” as well as to prohib any affirmative discsn of homosexualy public school sex tn programs (Chua 2014).
The ernment has also acknowledged that Sectn 377A serv the purpose of symbolisg the excln of homosexualy om “mastream” Sgaporean society. The petn eliced a parliamentary speech om the prime mister that crystallised the state’s posn on homosexualy: queer people do have a place Sgaporean society, and Sectn 377A would not be enforced nsensual, private suatns; but the will of the majory, who has yet to accept homosexualy, mt prevail, and so the law has to rema as a symbol. The Augt 2012 Court of Appeal cisn ncerned a procral matter, holdg that a gay cizen uld ed challenge Sectn 377A’s nstutnaly whout first havg to be arrted or charged unr .
It meant that Tan uld proceed wh the nstutnal challenge, and other gay Sgaporeans uld also do the same. In November 2012, gay uple Lim Meng Suang and Kenh Chee Mun-Leon filed their own separate se alongsi Tan’s.
SGAPORE TO END LONIAL-ERA BAN ON GAY SEX AFTER YEARS OF BATE
Jtice Quent Loh cid agast both s, lg that urts should fer to the legislature on issu of moraly, and, sce parliament had cid to reta the law due to the majory’s “disapproval” of homosexualy, the urts uld not tervene. Mobilizg Gay Sgapore: Rights and Ristance an Authorarian State. 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.
Lee said his speech Sunday that he wants gay people to “live their own liv, participate our muny and ntribute fully to Sgapore. 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.
SGAPORE PASS LAWS TO CRIMALISE GAY SEX, PROTECT FN OF MARRIAGE AGAST LEGAL CHALLENGE
That’s bee as put an end to that law, the Sgapore ernment reerated s opposn to gay marriage.
SGAPORE PARLIAMENT REPEALS GAY SEX BAN BUT LIMS PROSPECT OF LEGALISG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
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.
SGAPORE WILL CRIMALIZE GAY SEX, BUT NTUE TO PROHIB SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
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.
As associate law profsor Eugene Tan of the Sgapore Management Universy put : “Sgapore removed a law long regard as beg discrimatory towards gay men.