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April 18, 2013
Fundraising campaign launched to fight anti-gay court ruling in Singapore

Campaign aims to raise $50,000 to challenge judge's ruling that anti-gay law should remain

A group of LGBT rights activists in Singapore has launched a fundraising campaign to mount an appeal against a recent court decision to kept anti-gay law Section 377A which criminalizes sex between men.

Gay couple Gary Lim and Kenneth Chee launched a constitutional challenge against Section 377A. Their lawyer argued that the law challenges Singapore's constitution which says all citizens must be treated equally before the law.

April 11, 2013
Singapore gay couple respond to judge's ruling against them

Gary Lim and Kenneth Chee say it is 'disheartening' that judge ruled to retain law which criminalizes gay sex between men in Singapore

A gay couple in Singapore who took their government to court over a law that criminalizes sex between men have said the High Court judge's decision to uphold the ban is 'disheartening'.

'We are disappointed that the High Court ruled against us and upheld s377A,' said Gary Lim and Kenneth Chee in a statement.

'Having been together for 15 years, it is disheartening that we are criminals in the eyes of the law because of a segment of society that will not live and let live, but insist on pushing their version of religion and morality on us.'

April 9, 2013
Singapore judge rules gay sex ban must stay

The case against Section 377A in Singapore’s High Court fails as Justice Quentin Loh says the anti-gay sex law is a ‘social norm’

Singapore’s High Court has dismissed a case by gay partners Gary Lim and Kenneth Chee designed to scrap the law which bans gay male sex.

LGBT people in Singapore have already said they will appeal the case to the Court of Appeal.

March 7, 2013
Lawyers clash in court challenge of Singapore's anti-gay sex law

Human rights lawyer says Singapore's Section 377A which criminalizes gay sex is 'inherently absurd, arbitrary, vague and discriminatory'

A case challenging constitutionality of anti-gay sex law was heard in the High Court in Singapore yesterday morning.

Human rights lawyer M Ravi went head-to-head with Aedit Abdullah, a lawyer from Singapore's Attorney-General's Chambers, the government's legal advisors.

The case, Tan Eng Hong v. Attorney-General, began in 2010 when Tan was charged for having sex with a man in a public toilet under Section 377A, the law which criminalizes sex between men.

After several court cases, the constitutional validity of the law is being challenged.

February 18, 2013
Singapore law minister: we won’t repeal anti-gay sex law

In a meeting with religious leaders, Singapore’s law minister, said the city-state’s anti-gay sex law will not be repealed nor will it be enforced

Singapore will not repeal the anti-sodomy laws that criminalizes gay sex, affirmed Kasiviswanathan Shanmugam, Singapore’s law minister, to an influential Christian group.

According to the reports from LoveSingapore’s Facebook page, a group network of 100 churches, the minister attended a meeting with its leaders to discuss LGBT rights today (18 February).

February 14, 2013
Singapore couple goes to court to abolish anti-gay sex law

Singapore's High Court held its first hearing of Gary Lim and Kenneth Chee's case that seeks to repeal the country's anti-sodomy law 

A gay couple in Singapore seeking to abolish a long-standing law banning gay sex had their case heard in court today.

The court case was heard just days after a former department store manager sued his boss for alleged discrimination against gays.

The two cases highlight how members of Singapore's LGBT community have become increasingly vocal, demanding changes in the city-state's attitudes toward homosexuality by speaking out against discrimination and raising legal cases to challenge the law.

January 30, 2013
'I think we'll just leave it,' says Singapore's Prime Minister about anti-gay law

Despite a legal challenge to Section 377A, the law that criminalizes gay sex in Singapore, prime minister indicates law will remain 

Singapore's prime minister Lee has indicated that he does not believe Section 377A, the law that criminalizes gay sex, should be repealed.

A delegate at the Institute of Policy Studies' Singapore Perspectives conference yesterday asked why a secular country like Singapore has 'an old and archaic law that nearly discriminates against a whole [group] of people'.

January 23, 2013
Singapore Christians rally for battle against repeal of anti-gay law

Attorney-General warns of risk of prejudice to court cases if heated public debate continues

Christian pastors in Singapore are showing that they are not going to allow an anti-gay law to be repealed without a fight.

Pastor Yang Tuck Yoong of Cornerstone Community Church told Straits Times that church leaders have met several times over the last month to discuss a collective response to the court case currently challenging Singapore's Section 377A, the colonial era law that criminalizes gay sex. 

January 17, 2013
Singapore pastor warns former prime minister of 'looming threat' of gay sex law repeal

Pastor at Singapore 'megachurch' tells former prime minister Goh Chok Tong to protect the 'family' from repeal of gay sex law

Singapore pastor Lawrence Khong took the opportunity of a visit from a former prime minister to his 'megachurch' to warn about the 'looming threat' of the repeal of Section 377A which criminalizes gay sex.

December 4, 2012
Fighting for LGBT rights within the law in Singapore

Gay Star News asks legal academic Lynette Chua how activists fight for LGBT rights in a country where homosexual sex is illegal

Gay Star News talks to Lynette Chua, assistant professor of law at the National University of Singapore, about the 'non-confrontational' advancement of LGBT rights within the restrictive laws of the city-state.

What is the legal situation for gay people in Singapore?

September 18, 2012
Nigeria gives man three months jail for gay sex

Bestwood Chukwuemeka was sentenced to three months in jail by a Karu Senior Magistrates’ Court, Abuja, Nigeria for having consexual gay sex with another man

Chukwuemeka, a 28 year-old actor, resident of Gidan Mangoro, had pleaded guilty to having engaged in ‘homosexual acts’, yesterday 17 September, 2012.

He was sentenced to a three months jail term.

Premium Times quoted him stating to the court: ‘I am guilty of the charge against me. I was under the influence of alcohol and I want the court to temper justice with mercy.’