Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has announced to decriminalize same-sex/gay sex between men by scrapping a colonial-era law protecting the definition of marriage.
LGBT activists in Singapore hailed the move as “a win for humanity.”
Prior to this, under Singapore’s Section 377A, men who have sex with men could be jailed for up to two years. To implement this decision, the Singapore government shall amend its constitution to avoid any constitutional challenges and difficulties in allowing same-sex marriage in the future.
However, it is still not clear when exactly Section 377A will be repealed.
What is Section 377?
Section 377 of the Indian penal code defining unnatural offences is rooted in the legacies of British colonial states where in it was introduced by Lord Macaulay in 1860 as a part of IPC. One of the grounds of introduction of the section was homosexuality or acts against the order of nature are condemned by the Bible.