Sgapore gay sex: untry to repeal lonial era law crimalizg sex between men, says prime mister | CNN

Contents:

• SGAPORE TO CRIMALIZE GAY SEX BUT WON’T ALLOW SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
• GAY WEDDG CEREMONI[]
• SGAPORE GAY TRAVEL
• LGBTQ: THE PODST TELLG SGAPORE'S HIDN GAY STORI
• END OF SGAPORE'S GAY SEX BAN A 'SMALL STEP' FOR SOME LGBT UPL
• SGAPORE HAS BANNED AN ARCHIE COMIC FOR DEPICTG A GAY WEDDG

SGAPORE TO CRIMALIZE GAY SEX BUT WON’T ALLOW SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

Readg Time: 11 mutLbian, gay, bisexual and/or transsexual (LGBT) persons Sgapore may face legal obstacl unr Sgapore law.

This was the se a recent cisn by a Sgapore urt, which rejected a gay man’s applitn to adopt a child that he fathered through surrogacy. Sgapore will legalize gay sex, although not gay marriage, the untry announced Sunday.

GAY WEDDG CEREMONI[]

“This will brg the law to le wh current social mols and I hope provi some relief to gay Sgaporeans, ” he said Sunday.

Lee had prevly pledged to not enforce the lonial-era law prohibg gay sex but later opted to repeal altogether. 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.

SGAPORE GAY TRAVEL

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. 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.

LGBTQ: THE PODST TELLG SGAPORE'S HIDN GAY STORI

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. However, the fact that male homosexual sex remas punishable by a prison term of up to two years unr Sectn 377A, even though the Apex Court has led "unenforceable", has not prevented gay Sgaporeans om fg stable long-term relatnships and om livg together as mted upl. Many have gotten married overseas, untri where gay marriage is legal, and then returned home.

Regardg adoptn of children by gay upl, rponnts who found always or almost always wrong fell to 61. 9% found gay marriage always or certa s wrong while 15.

END OF SGAPORE'S GAY SEX BAN A 'SMALL STEP' FOR SOME LGBT UPL

It surprised many the LGBT muny to disver that Sgaporeans were ls opposed to gay adoptn and gay marriage than to gay sex. When the survey was repeated 2018, the percentage of of rponnts aged 20 to 24 who felt that gay marriage was not wrong doubled om 24. See also Archive of TODAY article, "Sgaporean man among first gay unn", 12 December 2005.

SGAPORE HAS BANNED AN ARCHIE COMIC FOR DEPICTG A GAY WEDDG

Sce then, many gay Sgaporean upl have followed su and registered their own civil unns foreign jurisdictns or have even gotten married to their partners untri like Canada and the USA where gay marriage has been legalised([7]):. Gay weddg ceremoni[].

Even though gay marriage is not yet legal, holdg gay weddgs is perfectly legimate Sgapore, unlike the se wh Vietnam where was illegal until as recent as 2014.

Therefore, if there is a ph by LGBT activists to legalise gay marriage Sgapore, may be spearhead by lbian upl servg as role mols as there is much ls mastream ristance agast their relatnships. "On beg award the Cultural Medalln, Sgapore’s hight natnal award for culture and the arts, a journalist asked me whether she uld e the term “openly gay” to scribe me. There were no posive gay rol mols, and neher were there any gay televisn programm, books or films wh happy endgs.