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In 2018, an Ipsos survey found that 55% of Singapore residents supported retaining Section 377A. [22] Shortly after the Penal Code review report was released on 9 September 2018, [23] a movement known as Ready4Repeal launched a petition to campaign for Section 377A to be repealed, even though MHA and Ministry of Law said there were no plans to ...
In 2017, Dear Straight People produced a music video for an LGBT cover of the Kit Chan song Home, performed by bisexual singer Lew Loh, which garnered attention and sparked discussions in Singapore. [5] Later that year, Dear Straight People organized a photo shoot called #Reasons4Repeal in support of the repeal of Section 377A.
F rustrated by inaction from lawmakers, a retired Singaporean doctor is pinning his hopes on the country's judiciary to repeal a law that can imprison men for engaging in gay sex for up to two years.
Tan's case was heard in the Supreme Court jointly with another appeal challenging Section 377A, and a ruling was given on 29 October 2014. The ruling upheld the country's ban on same-sex relations between consenting adult men. The court held that Section 377A does not violate Articles 9 and 12 of the Singapore Constitution.
On 21 August 2022, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced during the annual National Day Rally that the government intended to repeal Section 377A, effectively ending criminalisation both de facto and de jure. [30] [31] On 29 November 2022, the Parliament of Singapore passed a bill to repeal Section 377A. [32]
Vivian Balakrishnan was born in 1961 in Singapore to an Indian Tamil father and a Chinese mother with ancestry from Fuqing, Fujian. [ 4 ] He was educated at Anglo-Chinese School and National Junior College before he was conferred the President's Scholarship in 1980 to study medicine at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at the National ...
Vasantham is a Singapore Indian language (predominantly Tamil) entertainment free-to-view commercial broadcast television network owned by Mediacorp, a subsidiary of the Government of Singapore's Sovereign wealth fund, Temasek Holdings. The following is a list of all television programming that Mediacorp Vasantham has broadcast since it began ...
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