Singapore Ends Homosexuality

Singapore will abolish a law banning homosexuality, effectively making it legal to be gay.

The decision, announced by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on national TV, comes after several years of heated debate.

LGBTI activists in Singapore have hailed the move as “a victory for humanity”.

Singapore is known for its conservative values, but in recent years a growing number of people have demanded that colonial law 377A be abolished.

Singapore is the latest country in Asia for LGBT rights, after India, Taiwan and Thailand.

The government's earlier position was the preservation of 377A which prohibits male sex, but also promised that it would not implement the law in an effort to calm both sides.

But on Sunday evening, Lee said they would abolish the law because he believed that “this is the right thing to do and something that most Singapore will accept”, the BBC writes, follows Clankosova. tv

He noted that “gay people are now better accepted” and the removal of 377A would bring the country's laws in line with the current “social emergencys, hoping it would provide a relief for the homosexuals of Singapore”.

We're finally doing it, and we're excited that this discriminating and outdated law will finally be removed from the books. There's a feeling it probably took a little more, but it had to happen, you know. Today we are very, very happy”, homosexual activist Johnson Onng told the BBC.