Gay and lbian people are “valued members of society” and wele Sgapore, Prime Mister Lee Hsien Loong said Wednday, a statement that is at odds wh his ernment’s ristance to popular efforts to crimalize homosexualy.
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- SGAPORE TO CRIMALIZE GAY SEX, PROTECT MARRIAGE LAW
- SGAPORE’S GAY SEX LAW TO BE REPEALED: PM LEE, LGBT GROUPS ‘RELIEVED’
- RPONSE TO BBC'S QUTN ON HOMOSEXUALY AND GAY EQUALY, 2017[]
- LI HUANWU, GAY NEPHEW OF SGAPORE PRIME MISTER, MARRI PARTNER
SGAPORE TO CRIMALIZE GAY SEX, PROTECT MARRIAGE LAW
In announcg the move, Prime Mister Lee Hsien Loong took a step long sought by gay rights advot, but he said same-sex marriage would ntue to be illegal. * lee hsien loong gay *
Started 2009, Pk Dot is the yearly event that supports the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny Sgapore. Last week, Taiwan was the first Asian untry to legalise gay marriage, leadg many to wonr when other natns the regn would follow su. He wrote his book “Hard Tths to Keep Sgapore Gog”, which was published 2011, that homosexualy was “not a liftyle”.
In 2007, Sgapore’s foundg prime mister had said, “This bs of homosexualy. If fact is te, and I’ve asked doctors this, that you are geilly born a homosexual bee that is the nature of geic random transmissn of gen, you n’t help .
SGAPORE’S GAY SEX LAW TO BE REPEALED: PM LEE, LGBT GROUPS ‘RELIEVED’
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. * lee hsien loong gay *
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RPONSE TO BBC'S QUTN ON HOMOSEXUALY AND GAY EQUALY, 2017[]
Wallace Woon/EPA, via ShutterstockPrime Mister Lee Hsien Loong of Sgapore said on Sunday that the ernment would repeal the untry’s lonial-era law crimalizg sex between men, a step long sought by gay rights advot, but that would propose a nstutnal amendment fg marriage as between a man and a woman. Reversg his opposn to crimalizg gay sex, Mr.
LI HUANWU, GAY NEPHEW OF SGAPORE PRIME MISTER, MARRI PARTNER
The law has not been enforced for 15 years but gay rights advot had long sought to overturn , argug that stigmatiz gay men and promot discrimatn.
”Sgapore’s gay muny has fought for years to repeal the law, cludg challengg the urts. ”Those advotg rights for gay people have long argued that 377A, even if is not enforced, perpetuat discrimatn at all levels of society, cludg schools, workplac, health re and the Lee acknowledged that a urt lg a se brought by three gay men challengg the law this year had put prsure on the ernment to Court of Appeal, the natn’s hight urt, cled to overturn Sectn 377A Febary, lg that the three men did not have legal standg bee the ernment had pledged not to enforce the urt said was Parliament’s rponsibily to ci the issue, notg that the high urt was “not a ont-nner for social change or an archect of social policy.