Sgapore to crimalize gay sex, won't allow same-sex marriage

Contents:

• LGBTQ: THE PODST TELLG SGAPORE'S HIDN GAY STORI
• SGAPORE TO CRIMALIZE GAY SEX BUT WON’T ALLOW SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
• A YEAR AFTER SGAPORE DECRIMALIZED GAY SEX, ITS LGBT COMMUNY TURNS ATTENTN TO FAY
• WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE YOUNG AND GAY SGAPORE

LGBTQ: THE PODST TELLG SGAPORE'S HIDN GAY STORI

They have started one of the first LGBTQ podsts Sgapore - where gay sex is still illegal. Sgapore's ernment argu that the ban mt rema to reflect society's nservative views, and as a promise has said will not enforce the LGBTQ activists argue that as long as remas, perpetuat a stigma and fuels SG Boys tell the BBC about the challeng of livg as a gay person Sgapore, and how they hope their podst will spread love and empathy for their by Tsa Wong.

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. Stg alone at the park on Saturday, wearg a pk wig and large sunglass, the 50-year-old tells TIME that, here at Pk Dot, he do not have to hi his inty as a gay Mlim man—a secret that he has kept om his fay for s and has no plans of divulgg. Phuong Nham, a Vietname gay man who moved to the Southeast Asian cy-state about 13 years ago, tells TIME that every Pk Dot event he has attend sce 2016 has been filled wh explic lls for the repeal of Sectn 377A, the law which crics say has long formed the basis for a host of discrimatory polici agast the LGBT muny.

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

“Every gay or lbian [uple], they have the same equal right to build their own fay jt as the straight uple. 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.

“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.

A YEAR AFTER SGAPORE DECRIMALIZED GAY SEX, ITS LGBT COMMUNY TURNS ATTENTN TO FAY

Weeks after a gay uple and hotel got a lot of love for reprentg the Sgapore’s LGBT muny, Tamp reprentative Baey Yam Keng last night displayed another rare show of support by terviewg a teen nstuent about unrgog hormonal replacement therapy. Baey went on to exprs hope for a better future for LGBT rints Sgapore, where gay sex is still banned and no laws protect the muny. Asked about the gay sex law, he straddled a both-sis posn of acknowledgg those who want change and those who do not.

Love drowns out the hate after Sgapore hotel featur gay uple.

WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE YOUNG AND GAY SGAPORE

When Sgapore announced this week would end a lonial-era law that crimalized sex between men, looked like a big victory for gay rights advot the Southeast Asian untry. That’s bee as put an end to that law, the Sgapore ernment reerated s opposn to gay marriage. Soon after announcg that nsensual gay sex would no longer be illegal, Prime Mister Lee Hsien Loong said his annual Augt rally speech that his ernment would “uphold and safeguard the stutn of marriage” – fed the Constutn as a unn between man and woman.

At the same time, the cy-state is home to var evangelil mega church that preach agast homosexualy. Lee noted his speech that gay rights remas “a highly sensive and ntent” issue to nservativ the untry.

To gay rights activists, the ntug ban on same-sex marriage is a signifint blow. So while activists the LGBTQ (Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer) muny weled the repeal of the gay sex law, many were disappoted too. And that disappotment will only have epened wh the suggtn by some of Lee’s misters that not only would the ernment rema opposed to gay marriage – may even create extra hurdl to prevent people om seekg to challenge the marriage laws urt.