Former Attorney General Lord Goldsmith to challenge Singapore over its...
Tony Blair’s former attorney general, Lord Goldsmith, is to challenge the government of Singapore over its laws banning sex between men. Section 377A of the Singapore penal code makes sex between two...
View ArticleSingapore High Court dismisses challenge to anti-sodomy law
The High Court of Singapore on Wednesday dismissed a constitutional challenge against a law which criminalises consensual sex between men. A written judgement on Wednesday reiterated a ruling from...
View ArticleSingapore: Pink Dot gay rally to deploy security for first time after...
Organisers of Singapore’s annual gay rights rally are to deploy security personnel for the first time, amid fears that increased religious opposition might blight this year’s event. Pink Dot, which is...
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After India, will Singapore be the next country to decriminalise gay sex?
A veteran diplomat has urged Singapore’s LGBT+ community to challenge a law prohibiting gay sex after India’s Supreme Court struck down the country’s ban on Thursday. Tommy Koh, the country’s former UN...
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Gay sex ban shouldn’t be repealed, Singapore Archbishop says
The Archbishop of Singapore has issued a warning against the repeal of Section 377A, which criminalises gay sex, on the basis that it would lead to a “slippery path of no return.” Archbishop William...
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Malaysian leader condemns ‘unfair’ gay sex law used to imprison him
The leader of Malaysia’s ruling coalition has called for a review of the country’s gay sex ban. Anwar Ibrahim served a total of eight years in prison because of the colonial-era Section 377A law, in...
View ArticleFresh battle to decriminalise gay sex launched in Singapore
A gay rights activist in Singapore has filed a new legal challenge against the country’s colonial-era ban on gay sex. Roy Tan’s new legal bid is the third recent attempt to change the law. Efforts to...
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Singapore’s colonial-era gay sex ban to face first of three high court legal...
Tomorrow the high court in Singapore will hear the first arguments to overturn Section 377A, a colonial-era law that criminalises gay sex. Singapore’s strict penal code classes sex between men as an...
View ArticleSingapore doubles down on homophobia, says millions of men are breaking the...
The Singapore High Court has dismissed three separate challenges to a law that criminalises sex acts between men. Gay and bisexual men in Singapore will continue to live as “un-apprehended criminals”...
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Singaporean pop star dropped by his record label for coming out as gay makes...
Willie Tay, a Singaporean pop star whose sexuality cost him his record deal and social media following, has bounced back with a brand new album. Tay was a rising star on the Singaporean music scene...
View ArticleDistraught man who called for ‘torture’ and ‘death curses’ against judges who...
After the Singapore High Court upheld a law criminalising homosexuality, a man has been charged with inciting violence for an Instagram message threatening to make the judiciary “pay the ultimate...
View ArticleSingapore man jailed for threatening ‘torture’ and ‘death curses’ against...
A man has been jailed for threatening a High Court judge and the Singapore judiciary on social media after they upheld a discriminatory anti-gay law. Muhammad Hanif Mohamed Huzairi, 31, was sentenced...
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