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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.

“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.

GAY WEDDG CEREMONI[]

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. 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.

SGAPORE GAY TRAVEL

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. 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. 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.

LGBTQ: THE PODST TELLG SGAPORE'S HIDN GAY STORI

"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.

In the summer of 1996, I met Tony at the “Brief Enunter”, a gay bar London’s Wt End. As is always the se wh gay bars, everyone was tryg and never pletely succeedg to be butch and ol.

Homophonilly, pun fully tend, 1-8-1-8 is spic Che. Our cizens, both straight and gay, regnise equaly, prejudice and hate-speech when we see , and are now more ready than ever to ll out.

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

This experience has affirmed our belief that the most important thg anyone n do as a human beg, straight or gay, is to be te to onelf. However, nspicuoly omted the gay, married, celebry uple of Ivan Heng and Tony Trickett.

First posive media report of Sgaporean gay marriage[]. The first Sgaporean gay marriage which was reported posively and given tailed verage the mastream media was that of actor-sger Caleb Goh and his partner who cled to be named for the Yahoo! Barely one week after Taiwan ma history on 17 May 2019 when beme the first jurisdictn Asia to legalise gay marriage[14], Li Huanwu, the grandson of the late Sgapore prime mister Lee Kuan Yew, married his long-time male partner an timate ceremony on Friday, 24 May 2019 Cape Town, South Ai where same-sex marriage was legalised 2006[15], [16].

SGAPORE HAS BANNED AN ARCHIE COMIC FOR DEPICTG A GAY WEDDG

” (see ma article: Lee Kuan Yew's views on homosexualy). A few reacted wh disda but many of the Che mentators also ngratulated the uple, wh some hopg that Li would ont the fight for gay rights Sgapore. The epic ceremony featured a giant ice phall, strippg policemen and holographic projectns what was billed the 'Gay weddg of the year'.

Foreign gay married upl Sgapore[]. If a foreign gay married uple wish to work or stay for an extend perd of time Sgapore whout a visa (more than 30 days or 90 days pendg on their natnaly), the available optns are:. Many foreign women who marry straight men Sgapore have also failed to get LTVPs, so is not only gay upl that are affected.