Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced the country will repeal a colonial-era law criminalising gay sex, though he maintained that the government will continue to “uphold” marriage as between a man and a woman.
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- Inherited from the British colonial era, Section 377A of Singapore’s penal code penalises sex between men with up to two years in jail.
- Gay rights campaigners have long said the law runs afoul of the affluent city-state’s increasingly modern and vibrant culture, and had mounted two unsuccessful legal challenges.
- However, the repeal of the Section 377A stops short of full marriage equality.
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