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Contents:
- A GLOBAL GAY PRI WEEKEND, PHOTOS
- SGAPORE HOLDS GAY PRI RALLY AMID LLS FOR REPEAL OF LONIAL-ERA LAW
- A YEAR AFTER SGAPORE DECRIMALIZED GAY SEX, ITS LGBT COMMUNY TURNS ATTENTN TO FAY
A GLOBAL GAY PRI WEEKEND, PHOTOS
Sgapore jos dozens of other ci around the world celebratg gay pri this weekend but is the only one where gay sex is crimalized. * singapore gay pride 2019 *
While var electric IRL queer ragers are off the rds, and gay clubs are temporarily closed durg this stay-home perd, Sgapore’s LGBTQ+ muny tak the virtual space to celebrate the eedom to love wh Pk Dot, and to promote a more clive Sgapore wh Pk Ft. World|A Global Gay Pri Weekend, Photos ADVERTISEMENTAn outpourg of celebratn, and a mand for change, 50 years after Aznar/Getty ImagParas to celebrate gay pri were held around the world this weekend, memoratg the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprisg New was a day to regnize gas — and mand new Istanbul, participants were forced to disperse after the Turkish police fired tear gas and bber bullets, and Sgapore participants protted anti-gay North Macedonia, revelers gathered for the Balkan untry’s first Pri para. The annual event, which promot the acceptance of the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people, is the clost thg Sgapore has to a gay pri Lago/Agence France-Prse — Getty ImagIn Barcelona, para participants ro atop of a b wavg rabow-lored fans durg the Pri para.
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SGAPORE HOLDS GAY PRI RALLY AMID LLS FOR REPEAL OF LONIAL-ERA LAW
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While we believe gay travellers should be exced to vis this cy, ’s important to be aware of the suatn before travellg. Unlike India, Sgapore has not ma the cisn to repeal this law, meang that unr Sectn 377A homosexualy remas illegal (technilly, the law says nothg about same-sex relatns between two women).
A YEAR AFTER SGAPORE DECRIMALIZED GAY SEX, ITS LGBT COMMUNY TURNS ATTENTN TO FAY
Months after Sgapore crimalized nsensual gay sex, the cy-state’s clost thg to a Pri event highlights how far s LGBT muny has e—and how far still has to go. * singapore gay pride 2019 *
Other parts of Sgapore’s Penal Co uld also potentially be terpreted to prosecute gay men, like sectn 354 on the ‘outrage of mosty’ or sectn 294A verg obscene acts public. The media is even forbidn to promote “the glamorizatn of the homosexual liftyle” so the rare ocsn an LGBT character appears on TV they are portrayed as damaged and have to be ‘fixed’.