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.

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.

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.

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.

Taiwanese popstar A-mei showed her support for gay rights at a concert in Singapore last Saturday 26 January.

The singer, who has been recording music since 1996 and is extremely popular in the Mandarin-speaking world, waved a rainbow flag and said love all around whether it's man-man, woman-woman or man-woman.

While A-mei sang her song Cai Hong (meaning rainbow) a camera zoomed in on couples in the crowd, showing them on a big screen on stage. When the camera focused on gay couple there were loud cheers from the audience.

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.

'The first Pride in X country' makes headlines around the world, but what if country creates their own LGBT pride event from scratch? That's what activists in Singapore have done with Pink Dot.

Instead of a rainbow striped Pride parade demanding rights, Pink Dot uses the one place in Singapore where protest is allowed - Speaker's Corner in Hong Lim Park - to spread awareness and acceptance of LGBT Singaporeans' 'Freedom to Love'.

In an attempt to placate the controversy around America’s most gay-friendly Ivy League university opening a campus in a state where homosexuality is illegal, Yale hosted a lecture about the gay rights movement in Singapore on Wednesday.

National University of Singapore (NUS) law professor Lynette Chua gave the lecture which was based on research interviewing 100 Singaporean gay rights activists.

A Singapore student challenged homosexuality education on a live news discussion TV show in Singapore yesterday.

During a panel show on Channel NewsAsia Singapore with teachers and a representative from the Ministry of Education, student Melissa Tsang questioned the kind of counselling a school would give an LGBT child.

In response to Mohana Eswaran, a teacher at Regent Secondary School in Singapore, who said she would refer students asking about homosexuality to school counsellors, Tsang said:

In a city-state where homosexuality is illegal and public protest is severely restricted, holding a gay pride parade is problematic. Since 2009 Singapore’s LGBT community have circumnavigated the law with Pink Dot.

Pink Dot is not a protest or a parade, but a gathering of people who express their sympathy for LGBT rights with the colour pink, in clothing and, for the first time this year, light.