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

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• SGAPORE’S HIGH URT RETAS AN ANTI-GAY LAW
• SGAPORE UPHOLDS COLONIAL ANTI-GAY LAWS: BEG GAY REMAS ILLEGAL FOR 5.7 MILLN PEOPLE

SGAPORE’S HIGH URT RETAS AN ANTI-GAY LAW

On Febary 28th the Court of Appeal dismissed a challenge brought by three gay-rights activists agast a law, datg om the lonial era, that crimalis sex between men. When parliament bated 377A 2007, Lee Hsien Loong, the prime mister, clared that would rema but would not be “proactively enforced” Lee argued that was necsary to strike a balance between acceptg gay men and rpectg society’s “tradnal” mor. Though the lg seems a blow to gay Sgaporeans, is fact “a partial but signifint victory” for them, said one of the platiffs, bee the urt gave legal weight to the attorney-general’s will displease Sgapore’s many nservativ.

But gay activists are also unhappy. 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 UPHOLDS COLONIAL ANTI-GAY LAWS: BEG GAY REMAS ILLEGAL FOR 5.7 MILLN PEOPLE

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.