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Contents:

• WHAT IT’S LIKE TO COME OUT SGAPORE, WHERE GAY SEX IS STILL ILLEGAL
• SGAPORE GAY TRAVEL
• GAY SGAPORE SGAPORE CY GUI
• LGBTQ: THE PODST TELLG SGAPORE'S HIDN GAY STORI
• WHY SGAPORE’S GAY SEX LAW CHANGE IS A DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD FOR LGBTQ ACTIVISTS
• IS OKAY FOR GAY TEACHERS TO E OUT CLASS? GAY TEACHERS LIST QUALMS, PARENTS URGE UTN

WHAT IT’S LIKE TO COME OUT SGAPORE, WHERE GAY SEX IS STILL ILLEGAL

Stunt Ashleigh Ng, 15, danc wearg a rabow flag, durg a ncert performance at a park for the annual Pk Dot gay pri event on Saturday, July 1, 2017, Sgapore.

However, for many other lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ+) lols and expatriat the Ln Cy, the most ntroversial legislatn is that ncerng homosexualy. A remnant of Brish lonial legislatn, which still largely shap Sgapore’s legal system today, Sectn 377A of the Sgapore Penal Co, which prohibs sexual relatns between nsentg men public and private, particularly stands out this events have propelled this clse to the foreont of the news cycle Sgapore and abroad, light of a Febary 28 Court of Appeal lg that rejected an appeal filed by three lol Sgaporean gay men 2020, challengg the nstutnaly of Sectn recent legal challenge was fueled by an Indian urt’s cisn to lift a ban on nsensual gay sex September 2018, which spired Johnson Ong Mg, Bryan Choong, and Roy Tan Seng Kee to ph for siar legal actn Sgapore. The three lols challenged the nstutnaly of Sectn 377A, potg out that the clse prived gay Sgaporeans of “life or personal liberty” unr Article 9(1) of the Constutn of Sgapore.

SGAPORE GAY TRAVEL

Throughout the legal proceedgs, the Supreme Court repeatedly referred back to a 2007 polil promise stck wh Prime Mister Lee Hsien Loong, matag Sectn 377A place while promisg that no party uld effectively be prosecuted a urt of law for engagg nsensual homosexual activi private. Followg the 2018 legal challenge to the clse, the Attorney-General’s Chambers offered a remr that the public prosecutor’s exercise of prosecutorial discretn “has always been, and remas, unfettered, ” thereby brgg to qutn the extent to which gay men are effectively safe om legal actn on the basis of their marked the send time the sectn has been challenged a prev appeal was filed 2014, after two men – Lim Meng Suan and Kenh Chee Mun-leon, a gay uple of 15 years – had siarly challenged the nstutnaly of Sectn 377A agast the premise of Article 9 and Article 12 of the Sgapore Constutn, the latter of which guarante all dividuals equaly to legal protectn of their rights unr the nstutn. Another appeal had been filed four years prr by Tan Eng Hong, a gay man who had been arrted for allegedly engagg oral sex wh another man a locked cubicle of a public toilet.

He also poted to a shift public attus towards homosexualy and LGBTQ+ rights, statg that “polici need to evolve to keep abreast of such views” and the Government is nsirg the “bt way forward wh [Sectn] 377A. “I don’t thk we n tly move forward as a muny if we n only exprs ourselv the spac, ” they said, strsg the importance of Shanmugam’s claims that polici need to evolve *, a lol Sgaporean gay man, se a glimmer of hope the words.

For Max, and many other gay men the cy, this survey appears as a logil next step the ernment’s procs to addrs Sectn 377A.

GAY SGAPORE SGAPORE CY GUI

”Movg forward wh crimalizg homosexualy Sgapore would reprent signifint progrs for LBGTQ+ rights the Asia-Pacific. No Southeast Asian untry has legalized marriage for same-sex upl as of yet, although homosexualy is crimalized Cambodia, Vietnam, and the Philipp.

In November 2020, Sgapore’s Prime Mister claimed at a tech nference that gay and lbian people are “valued” and “wele Sgapore”. A 2020 survey, for stance, found that jt beg gay or bi Sgapore a person’s happs level to drop by 11%. That is likely due to the fact that gay marriag or unns are not regnised here.

LGBTQ: THE PODST TELLG SGAPORE'S HIDN GAY STORI

Gay sex is illegal but isn’t actively prosecuted, and queer bars and night life venu generally operate whout harassment om the state.

WHY SGAPORE’S GAY SEX LAW CHANGE IS A DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD FOR LGBTQ ACTIVISTS

My first memory of beg gay is gettg this letter om my senr and cshg on her. But one thg they have mon is their nservative and rigoro culture, which expos young kids to homophobia om a young Aliy, 16, who intifi as trans male, movg schools was a shockg experience. In sendary one, I me out as queer, and my school is really sexist, homophobic and racist, ” he said.

At the time, she had e out as a gay male to her peers, who she rells were surprisgly fe wh . The police guys pecially… they have different views about gay guys.

Image wakg up and your nservative parents fd out that you are gay, you drk and you have piercgs, ” he said. “I tried beg fensive and tellg them I was born this way, but I realized wasn’t gog to work so I jt told them I would stop beg gay om now on. Josh, Jay and Ezra, three gay men, are not, and asked to rema anonymo – which may speak to specific challeng between genrs as 's clear is the cisn to e out is eply personal, and mt be weighed agast each one’s own experience – pecially given the obstacl of beg queer Aliy, was a cisn he ma to take a stance.

IS OKAY FOR GAY TEACHERS TO E OUT CLASS? GAY TEACHERS LIST QUALMS, PARENTS URGE UTN

“I was sick of the sexism and homophobia wh the system, and beg out meant havg people shut up around me, ” he said. “People who would normally make sexist or homophobic ments have to ntrol themselv when the ‘gay kid’ is around.

So the fight helps, bee now my peers are ls exposed to seeg homophobia, and are ls likely to ternalise bee of that. 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.

This will brg the law to le wh current social mor, and I hope, provi some relief to gay Sgaporeans, ” said the Prime Mister.