Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced this past week that the country will repeal a colonial-era law criminalizing gay sex, though he maintained that the government will continue to “uphold” marriage as being between a man and a woman.
Inherited from the British colonial era, section 377A of Singapore’s penal code penalizes sex between men with up to two years in jail.
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