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.
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- ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
- SGAPORE’S LATT RULG ON GAY SEX IS ‘COLD COMFORT,’ ACTIVISTS SAY
ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
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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. Sectn 377 of the Indian Penal Co crimalis sexual activi "agast the law of nature" Delhi: The Supreme Court today said that a larger group of judg would re-nsir and exame the nstutnal validy of Sectn 377 of the Indian Penal Co (IPC), a law that crimalis sexual activi "agast the law of nature", re-openg the bate over homosexualy India. The top urt will now re-vis s 2013 verdict that crimalis gay sex.
SGAPORE’S LATT RULG ON GAY SEX IS ‘COLD COMFORT,’ ACTIVISTS SAY
" Simply put, Sectn 377 is an archaic law that was troduced durg the Brish era 1860s and mak gay sex a crime for which the punishment n be a life also has implitns for heterosexuals, as nsensual sexual acts of adults - oral and anal sex private - are currently treated as unnatural and punishable unr Sectn 377 of the Indian Penal 2009, the Delhi High Court had scribed Sectn 377 as a vlatn of the fundamental rights guaranteed by the nstutn. Relig groups, however, had appealed agast the cisn the Supreme 2013, the Supreme Court ncelled the Delhi high urt orr and re-crimalised homosexualy. It said that was the job of the parliament to ci on scrappg cisn that gay sex is a crimal offense was seen as a major setback for human rights and was also wily cricized.
While prosecutns unr sectn 377 have been rare, activists have said that the police ed the law to harass and timidate members of the LGBT the 2013 Supreme Court's cisn, proment BJP lear Rajnath Sgh had said, "We support Sectn 377 bee we believe that homosexualy is an unnatural act and nnot be supported. "Congrs lears Rahul Gandhi, P Chidambaram, Shashi Tharoor, Tramool Congrs lear Derek O' Brien, CPI (M) lear Brda Karat, the Aam Aadmi Party among others had e out support of the LGBT muny and had said that homosexualy should be crimalized.
The Indian Supreme Court unanimoly led favour of crimalisg homosexualy on September 6 2018, overturng the law, brought durg lonial Brish le. Globally signifint, meant a fifth of the world’s populatn was legally allowed to be LGBTQ, the biggt sgle crimalisatn of beg gay human history.